Are you struggling to work out the angle in order to escape from a snooker? Well, who better than Alan "Angles" McManus to demonstrate exactly what you need to know. From using multiple cushions to making tiny side adjustments to tricking your brain into seeing the line of an angle, Alan has you covered in this in-depth masterclass in escaping snookers.
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outrageous that he's got the line to cut it in the middle off 3 cushions after 2 attempts 😂
absolutely insane to call it unmissable as well, after that 'clarification' of how he does it. makes no sense to me,
How did you?
Need a Scottish interpreter😂😂😂
@@starman9921 Thank you.
No wonder he won fuck all
Could listen to Alan all day, his knowledge of the game is insane 👍
He is too clever to be able to explain it well. I might have became a worse player for trying to understand that haha
That cut to the middle was actually so impressive
Genuinely one of the most fascinating videos I’ve ever watched on snooker! It’s unbelievable seeing a pros mind work out loud (if that makes sense) shows the hours a man can put into a game to have so much knowledge! Calling I’ll cut the pink in the middle” then the only reason he didn’t was pace! Unbelievable video!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
aye just what i was thinking.
Wow! I have played snooker for many many years and Alan is showing me and telling me stuff I had no idea about!! AMAZING!
Another absolute gem of a video , Keep em coming Stephen !
Yes have always liked Alan. A great commentator and a far better player than his record suggests. Top man👍
Always felt Alan's career kinda flattered to deceive. A phenomenal player in his prime but he had the misfortune of being up against it during Hendry's reign.
"I want to meet it at the end of the banana" - things I did not expect to hear today haha
Could listen to these two talk snooker all day. Superb!
brilliant.. would love to see Alan do his own channel of tips too.. what a legend
What a great natural teacher !
it's amazing cause its like a ghost ball you use for potting but instead it's getting out of snookers. very interesting stuff Alan
Brillant content. Alan is the professor of safety wow fantastic. You have to do more episode with Alan. It was fascinating. Keep up good work and lookforward to next guest. Wish you could release more videos. I find myself waiting to long which show how great your channel is. 🔥👏🏽👍🏽
Best instructional snooker video I have ever seen. Thanks guys!
This is the kind of insight that this channel provides in abundance. It's absolutely fantastic, and I wish that this kind of thing existed when I was 30-ish years younger! I hope that lots of aspiring young players are watching, enjoying and subscribing to this channel... I'm hooked.
Added bonus with that last tip. Love that idea!
Alan is great to listen to, he knows his stuff for sure, great commentator as well, top man..
The way Alan looked into the air to see the shot, that’s Devine intervention right there 😂 could watch and listen to these guys all day
You see grandmaster chess players do the same thing, look away from the board and up into the air. I think at an expert level it must be more useful to imagine things in your mind's eye rather than look at the table/chess board in front of you.
I love Alan, he's been and remains, like yourself, a great ambassador of the game.
such a great method of making shots more simple
That was Great! what a lovely human as well Alan!
The snooker whisperer!!!
Steve Davis used to call it 'trickonometry' (for obvious reasons), and I kind of get where he is coming from. I mean, its basic trig, with a little bit of trickery involved with 'side and slide'. I also love what Alan said about using two cushions as the parallel to find the line, and then just halve it to find the single. That's just genius.
Very interesting approach...will try that myself
That was awesome Stephen loved it thankyou! I've loved your tips soonmuch. Be great if you could keep picking brains of other pros, on their practice routines...technique mental approach any and all of it!! Amazing snooker channel you've invented...your total pro n natural at it. No way a big channel with producers etc would have created such a great channel! Thankyou! You already added another 8k to the 100,000 you only just reached! Love it keep up good work. Also we'll done on Ur century break in cruicle qualifier. You can still produce it beautifulky
That's crazy accuracy! Wow!
That was some century break against Cahill.. Including 2 doubles 😮 was really rooting for Stephen to get to the Crucible again.. Maybe a road to the Crucible series on the channel next year 🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶🧶👍☘️
Utterly incomprehensible but delicious. Thanks!
I love the way McManus has his natural accent and way of speaking, rather than his TV voice. Great video and channel👍
They differ???🤔🤔🤔I genuinely don’t even notice the difference…. Ya learn something new every day
@@nobodyspecial6436 you must be a native then and you don't realise it because you understand either way? For me it's very hard to understand his "non-formal" talk. In commentary his diction is more careful, and overall less accent. Other non-native speakers feel the same, there were many funny comments about not understanding much in the first video he was on. 😃
@@tarastreasure Native what?? Scottish… nope i’m about 1200 miles west… There’s a great big ocean between me and Scotland… You would land where i’m from if you jumped in a boat and headed west…Closest point of land
@@nobodyspecial6436 Canada then? Well, maybe being immersed in English on a regular basis helps. Or some ears are just wired differently. I can tell you I easily understand American English and 'formal' British English, but I have difficulties with the more peculiar accents. 🤷🏻♀️
this is fascinating. unreal, these videos are unbelievable, the first hand knowledge
Great lads Alan & Stephen
Another great video from the old pro's!!! Both still got it!!
What a gent , two great players
This is pure GOLD
Epic video. 💯⭐
Wow, THAT is impressive!
Best channel on KZhead by far! Keep it up :)
Brilliant ,im glad im Scottish watching that one
Love it!
Fascinating to see how the thought process behind a shot works for professionals! Very useful!
Superb 👍👍
Great tips, very very useful!
Bloody Fascinating! Love angles, he should start his own little tips and tricks channel, could listen to him for hours. Excellent on commentary as well.
This is how they should be filling the mid session intervals on televised snooker. Could watch all day. Always new McManus was great with getting around the table, but here the process and thinking is explained. Love it
Alan's the man.
Awesome 👌 video
Hahah, what a video this is Stephen with Angles Macca, he's a diamond character, really enjoying these mate ;)
I know Alan didn’t win 94 titles like most greats have but the amount of snooker knowledge in this man’s head shits on everyone’s out there. His snooker knowledge is better than all the pro players out there put together. The man is a legend and I love watching him teach or commentating.
Obviously Steven's fav subject, getting out of snookers and grinding it out!....
the last tip is really helpful
another brilliant vid! Many thanks
Another fantastic insight into a horrendously difficult sport, 38 highest brake for me 👴🏼🏴…love to all 😘
More Alan please. That was fascinating
Fantastic! Just shows how everybody has some secret sauce! I got the feeling that Stephen was looking at that and thinking Ahh…that’s how you do it….which is nuts!
Alan McManus - top banana! 🍌
It’s just a whole a different way of thinking about snookers 🤯 I don’t play any more but when I did it was always about how few cushions you could use to get out of a snooker - clearly one of the many reasons I was terrible at it!!!
That thing he said about escaping snookers, and deliberately aiming off, then adjusting as you guage it in your mind... i used to do that too and it really is the best way to do it. Escaping snookers is all about feel more than anything else. You already have a natural sense of the line, the rest is all in your head. Listen, I'm no pro, and couldnt hold a candle to these guys, but did play in a league in Basildon years ago and regulary made 40s and 50s. And being able to escape snookers was definitely the strongest aspect of my game.
This is hi tech stuff. Im not going to lie and say I understood it all but very interesting. Alan the man, the myth the legend!
very interesting tips
hang in there Stephen! from germany
Incredible…very interesting, thanks Alan!
hard to understand words but actions helps thank you mr.macmanus
Just watched your 102 break from today , fantastic mate 👏👏👏
There was something about Alan McManus that I always wanted him to win, unless he was playing a Welshman of course. Another great episode Stephen, and thanks for the absorbing content Alan, Top bloke..👍👍👍
He was a great player.Watching this he had an inbuilt genius for the game.
I would love to have a day at the table with either of these gentlemen.
6:29 "Aye!"
And 6:51 😂
@@davidgibson4186 😂
Stephen out of the all the coaches u've had & now stay clear from Alan's got to be one guy that really could help u get bk we'd all love to see u Bk
Alan seems such a sound guy.. would love a frame with him!
Awesome
Really enjoyed this - Brilliant how he works things out! - The best of the pundits to my mind and how he thinks about the game 👏👏
"I want to meet the red at the end of the banana" is a sentence that was produced in this video
Remember to let it jag that way
I'm going to be world champ next year after this. Never picked up a cue in my life.
@@GTiR23 I was recently banned from my local club after lying several bananas on the table, they dragged me out as I screamed "but Angles said"
Very interesting, thank you. Like Steve Davis, Angles has a snooker brain the size of planet. (One little criticism - when Alan was trying to show the 'banana', the camera angle needed to be from behind the top cushion/left-hand corner pocket - you couldn't see it from the side view)
Would love to hear what break from life thins about these tips and if its gonna work for his game.
Good to see how to escape; could you please also do how to CREATE snookers?
I am OK with one cushion escapes but I have trouble visualising 2 or 3 cushion escapes. Any tips?
Way too complicated for a beginner like me to understand. All I know is that a plain ball will come off the cushion at the same angle it hit it. But cannot fail to be impressed with the skill of Angles Alan.
The problem is, no it doesn't! Depending on how hard you hit it and how much side, it normally straightens up when it hits the cush.
@@iainamurray he said plain ball, that means no side. A plain ball hit at a reasonable pace (ie not ludicrously slow or ludicrously fast) will come off at the same angle it hits
@@toziassmitt the fact that by his own admission he was a beginner the chances of him hitting center ball are pretty slim.. Beginners always tend to impart unwanted side
@@toziassmitt Aye but in the video he also said that plain ball in a club table will often square up, whilst on a tournament standard table the cushions will slide, and widen the angle.
Wish this was on when I was playing amateur (poorly) many years ago it’s really opened my mind and eyes as to how the pros approach the game, top notch Alan and Stephen
Think we need Alan part 2
Alan McManus is one of my fav Welsh players ever. No doubt
Erm.. Welsh?
@@brianswift2706Just trolling and being sarky. He has the most Scottish and accent I've heard. great player of the game
Absolutely brilliant Angles!!!! thank you Stephen 'my hero' and hope there is a longer cut of this video with more advices from unselfish pro like Alan.
I couldn't make a lot of sense of it, except that he clearly pays a lot of attention to where the cue ball contacts the cushions on every shot. So when he's doing these multi-cushion shots, he likes to think about cushion aim points, rather than ones in the middle of the table. Then the next thing is he has multiple levels of precision that he stacks up. So the first might be an aim point on the cushion that's as thick as the width of a ball. But then he refines that to the left or right edge of that ball. Then if he needs to he starts making tiny tiny adjustments to that point. That's my interpretation anyway. What's interesting is that he focuses more on the end point rather than the first cushion he has to hit.
Of course there's a bit more to it than that, a lot of times it's not just getting out of the snooker, it's leaving it safe so that's more accuracy required;
What the fack are they talking about 😂 Bananas , hit the end of the Banana 😂 Hendrys nodding and saying yea yeah yeah , I bet he hasn't even a clue himself 😂
Hendo, come on pal, I grew up, along with many my age in Scotland, watching you mercilessly wipe the floor with anyone you played. It was amazing to see a fellow Scotsman be the greatest in the world at something, Not just the greatest in that period but of ALL TIME! I didn't think you would ever be beaten. Flash forward to now and you seem to talk about yourself like you can hardly hit a ball!! PLEASE Stephen, get back to basics, get the practice in, shift a couple of pounds, get your head focused and go and win another title!!😄
No idea what he was talking about the entire video but still enjoyed it
With so much experience and practice I believe he can actually see the imaginary lines clear as day
Impressive. Imagining a red further along the line is something I reckon will help. Don't think this was one for the beginners though! Especially with two Scots leading the dialect 😅
Alans got real passion for the game
Talk about a snooker brain!
No one: McManus: AYYYEEEEE
Love the local accents coming out out when 2 Scots talk!😂
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Stephen "Yeah yeah yeah" hendry 😂
Pretty sure Alan's been smoking something....lmao
Basically you tell yourself where you want to go and the your brain will work out the path, speed etc. Like walking, you dont think about how you walk but rather where you want to go
Clear as mud Alan....😅
Yeeeessssssssssssss
Super video as always. 11:25 alan tells crucible king hendry pl don't worry 😂
cracked