Top Stroke

bud green

bud green

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If you have five minutes to spare, this clip of Ronnie O'Sullivan might be the best example of someone in top stroke who just CAN'T miss. Funny watching the ref try and keep up...watch his shot on the blue when he's running out the colors. He jumps the cue ball on the black for no reason whatsoever but its fun to watch. 10,000 British pounds ($15-$20K) on the line for high break.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I&NR=1
 
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From watching snooker players play snooker and also 9 ball, I just feel that the pool players spend way more time learning how to spin the cue ball around the tables off multiple rails and not enough time on shooting balls with precision.
 
whoa!

That was seriously amazing.. especially in the last part of the game, when he fires in everything at warp speed, almost challenging the ref to keep up. He even topped it off with that last shot!!
 
Now I know why snooker tables are so friggin big....it gives the ref enough time to spot the balls while the player is walking/sprinting to the next shot!:D

That was one of the most beautiful displays of raw talent I have ever seen. It was like he was showing all the players and the viewing audience that he is the best ever.....and he knows it!
 
NervousNovice said:
From watching snooker players play snooker and also 9 ball, I just feel that the pool players spend way more time learning how to spin the cue ball around the tables off multiple rails and not enough time on shooting balls with precision.
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you might think that, and there is nothing wrong with shooting center ball, BUT, in pool you have a smaller playing surface with larger balls forcing you to move the cueball into "un-natural" positions that you can't always get to with center ball. In snooker you have such a GIANT playing surface many shots are hit with a "heavy" center ball punch which is very accurate without getting off the center axis of the cueball.
 
He is way too classy to be playing pool.Raw talent, genius, the magician of snooker.Hendry at his time was probably better then ronnie will ever be, but...he was a machine, his sweat and blood was all over the practice tables.On the other hand ronnie is just soooo talented.thin is the line which divides a genius from the idiot....
 
Gerry said:
Now I know why snooker tables are so friggin big....it gives the ref enough time to spot the balls while the player is walking/sprinting to the next shot!:D

That was one of the most beautiful displays of raw talent I have ever seen. It was like he was showing all the players and the viewing audience that he is the best ever.....and he knows it!
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Gerry, as good as that looked, Hendry was in a different planet to Ronnie and everybody else when he was on his game. To see Hendry in full flight is to me best display of cuesport talent that anybody could ever see. Hendry was also a much better player under the gun than Ronnie. I really do feel that his talent with a cue has never been matched in any discipline.
 
bud green said:
If you have five minutes to spare, this clip of Ronnie O'Sullivan might be the best example of someone in top stroke who just CAN'T miss. Funny watching the ref try and keep up...watch his shot on the blue when he's running out the colors. He jumps the cue ball on the black for no reason whatsoever but its fun to watch. 10,000 British pounds ($15-20$K) on the line for high break.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgxWd0djt5I&NR=1
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I have never seen snooker played before until now, but that is the stupidest game that I have ever seen.

Spotting balls back up on the table. How Absurd!!

He had one or two hard shots the whole time, and there were no real position demands as far as I could see. I am not impressed.

But thanks for the video anyway.
 
Calling snooker stupid or absurd is pretty ignorant, IMO. If you thought those shots were easy, find yourself a snooker table and try to run a century. See how long it takes you to run 100+ in under five minutes.

Hendry is of course the greatest ever, his record is incredible. Something like 680 centuries in competition, he won 6 or 7 world championships in the 90's,etc... Ronnie is still the best to watch, though. When he's playing good, there's an excitement in the air that no one else can generate. Strickland used to have that same excitement in the 90's when he was breaking and running out 5 and 6 packs left and right.

Scaramouche posted some links to Steve Davis and John Parrot talking about various snooker pro's in the Snooker section. Worth looking at if you want to hear them discuss Hendry and O'Sullivan.

Here's another link to some O'Sullivan snooker. This time he runs a century using his opposite hand most of the shots. Maybe not great sportsmanship, but its fun to watch:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=95YZw4HgcS4
 
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whitewolf said:
I have never seen snooker played before until now, but that is the stupidest game that I have ever seen.

Spotting balls back up on the table. How Absurd!!

He had one or two hard shots the whole time, and there were no real position demands as far as I could see. I am not impressed.

But thanks for the video anyway.
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It is definately not a stupid game; it is a great game, and it is a lot harder to play it than to watch it.
 
Gerry said:
you might think that, and there is nothing wrong with shooting center ball, BUT, in pool you have a smaller playing surface with larger balls forcing you to move the cueball into "un-natural" positions that you can't always get to with center ball. In snooker you have such a GIANT playing surface many shots are hit with a "heavy" center ball punch which is very accurate without getting off the center axis of the cueball.
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I understand that pool and snooker require different styles of play. What I wanted to say was, too often players (especially beginners) are concentrated on applying spin (oh, is it high right? oh, no, it's low right, oh yea) and they can't even shoot straight.

whitewolf said:
I have never seen snooker played before until now, but that is the stupidest game that I have ever seen.

Spotting balls back up on the table. How Absurd!!

He had one or two hard shots the whole time, and there were no real position demands as far as I could see. I am not impressed.

But thanks for the video anyway.
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Try it! You'll realize what you said is equally absurd.
 
What was the point of jumping the cue ball at the end? Does that hold some type of special snooker gesture? I played snooker many times in the past, but can't remember all of the rules. Wouldn't the 7 have to be respotted if he jumped the cue off the table?

Regardless, dead stroke.
 
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