So everyone adopts and encourages the 'best practices' they regularly see on TV when they're watching pro players. Good cueing becomes a formidable barrier to entry for snooker. Whereas in snooker, if you don't learn to deliver the cue consistently, then you're going to quit because you'll get nowhere. I think for a beginner playing on US pool tables, the table/pockets are more forgiving so we get a variety of stances and cue actions and can still be reasonably successful at potting and getting ok position. I grew up in europe and watched/played snooker for 25 years before moving to US and getting into US pool. That's no commentary on what game is most skilled or strategic. all stack together to create a technically more challenging environment which force the focus on cueing. I think snooker does rely on fundamentals more than pool because the margins for error are tighter - larger table, smaller pockets etc. It's literally different strokes for different folks (games). If it were a truly superior technique, you'd see all the top pros doing it-and you don't. While cueing techniques used in snooker are very stable and effective, there's a reason pool players (with no snooker background) stand and stroke the way they do. Several years ago Steve Mizerak was invited to play an exhibition against a young Steven Hendry.although he lost, he acquitted himself very well, all the while shooting with a Richard Black custom pool cue, no less!
#Billiards vs pool vs snooker professional#
and in the UK professional snooker is a very exclusive "closed shop". I can't remember the last time I saw a regulation snooker table in the U.S. You don't see a lot of pool players jumping to snooker, but most forget that the opportunity to do so is almost nil. I don't buy that because a top flight snooker player can compete at a relatively high level in pool the reverse isn't true. I have MAD respect for snooker players I've played the game many, many times over the years I spent in Europe and know how tough it is. In pool you're able to use different parts of the pocket or even rub a rail to cheat the pocket, not because less accuracy is required, but in order to alter the post collision impact to move the CB along a different line. In pool, you're moving bigger, heavier balls, using a different type of cue. the world's snooker champions? (and if you don't agree these are flaws, that's ok too)ĭifferent sports/games, different equipment, different techniques. So, what are the most significant technique flaws of American pool players vs. body/head/bridge arm movement during stroke incomplete follow through resulting in deceleration or a poke stroke
The following is a short list of some fundamental cueing flaws: Without going into a debate over the validity of this statement, I'd like to know (especially from snooker players) exactly which cueing fundamentals are deficient in American pool players? Snooker relies much more on cueing fundamentals than pool, and in general, pool players (especially those of the American variety) do not have the mastery of these fundamentals required to compete successfully at snooker at the highest levels. The far from unanimous consensus seems to be that: Over the past several months, there have been numerous posts and threads comparing and contrasting Snooker to American pool.
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