147 Snooker Drills and Exercises

Having returned to snooker after a few too many years away, I bought this book to make practice sessions a little more structured and interesting rather than just doing repetitive line ups, and so far I have been really impressed. It makes practice sessions much more varied & enjoyable. I just read about a few drills beforehand then go to the club and practice them. Really nice book with some good drills but for me is let down in a couple of key areas relating to the diagrams. They they are just a little too small when the cloth is shown as dark green, and it is really hard to differentiate which ball is which sometimes. The cloth area would have been better represented as just white, albeit then not realistic but at least you would then be able to see the colour of the respective balls more easily, and the size of the diagrams would then not be so much of a problem. At the very least the cloth could have been represented by a much lighter shade of green, but personally I think white would have been better given the overall size of the book (about A5 size). Together this would have made the respective drills more easily and quickly understood, using the narrative and diagrams together. That said you do eventually understand what is required, but it could/should be much simpler. There are also a few mistakes in the drill descriptions ie referring to the wrong colour balls but that is minor and can be overcome when referring to the respective diagram. Overall I think it is a great book, cheaper than a snooker coach for me and which will hopefully help me improve my game and shot selection, and but for the above could have been better and would have been 5 stars!

The idea of some practice drills is great - but you need to be able to see the set up and understand the instructions!The graphics of the table setups are just poor - the cloth is represented as so dark that you can never see anything but white, yellow, red and black - the green and brown just merge into the background. they are also too small. should really have been an explanation on one side of the page and full size illustration with better colours on the opposite page.Plus does not seem to be proofread. example is K17 Black ball potting angles where it tells you to pot the blue.Many explanations require a translator to work out what you are supposed to do. - by the time you have worked out what the drill is you have lost interestVery poor. - see the 'look inside' and you'll get my point.

All of the drills are explained with advice given on how to progress the drill and what areas of your game it will improve.The reason I have given the book four rather than five stars is that the graphics of the table are not optimised. The shade of green used for the tables is far too dark and coupled with the glossy paper used in print makes the ball set-ups harder to see than it needs to be. The publishers should lighten the shade of green used on the tables then the book would be perfect and a bible for anyone who takes their snooker practise seriously and wants to improve.

The book is well produced, however the diagrams are a little small and sometimes it is not clear what is expected. The exercises go from very simple to quite difficult very soon and it would have been a help to the beginner to be given a description of what side, stun, etc does to a ball, after contact with the object ball.Nevertherless, I would recomend the book and perhaps I am being a little pernikety!

The book is well illustrated and is a good reminder of lots of simple practice routines and how they can help to improve your game. You can pick the ones that relate to different areas you need to improve on.