Rolling up to a colour

[fredkite]

I was playing on monday night and played a red as a shot to nothing, the cueball ends up 2 inches behind the yellow so I try the roll up and hit it much too hard. My opponent, a very good player, showed me a method that works every time. Simply draw the cue back the same distance as the gap between cueball and object ball then hit it, worked for me every time. Hope this is helpful.

[scottley]

Surely this is dependent on where your bridge hand is though?

[fredkite]

I bridged slightly closer than normal and it worked for me. Ymvy of course!

[DeanH]

yep heard of this method as well, and can work very well when you have those very short distance for a roll up

for the bigger distances not so much though

[jonny66]

I'm almost always short on those roll up snookers, tends to cost me a fair few points, but I suppose it's good practice for getting out of snookers.

[DeanH]

I recall Stephen Hendry saying in an interview or a pundit BBC moment that he always plays the rollup with top, so ensure he was never short.

[Chappy5]

I was playing on monday night and played a red as a shot to nothing, the cueball ends up 2 inches behind the yellow so I try the roll up and hit it much too hard. My opponent, a very good player, showed me a method that works every time. Simply draw the cue back the same distance as the gap between cueball and object ball then hit it, worked for me every time. Hope this is helpful.

Interesting and i will try this!

I hate doing short roll ups and i always hit it to hard or to short stuffing the roll up!

The pros make it look so easy to roll right up the backside of a ball and have it sit there perfectly snookering their opponent, when i try it though it is mostly always a stuff up resulting in no snooker as i hit to hard or a foul when i miss it completely by playing to soft! Grrr

[DandyA]

I think the "trick" is to try to push the white rather than hit or strike it as you do in a normal shot ... so, hold the cue near the balance point to reduce it's effective weight, don't get so far down as you normally do and then try to push the white ball with the cue ... you won't actually make a push shot as the cue is much heavier than the white but you will be able to control a gentle roll up much better ...

try it, it certainly works for me

[tedisbill]

What's "rolling up behind a colour"?

[DandyA]

What's "rolling up behind a colour"?

lol, it's the opposite of your approach tedisbill, the "give 'em a whack and hope" technique

[jrc750]

If there's enough space to roll up behind a colour then there's enough of an angle to pot it !!

[DandyA]

If there's enough space to roll up behind a colour then there's enough of an angle to pot it !!

now this is sort of interesting jrc because you often hear the commentators say things like "he's a bit short, if the white had rolled once more he'd be perfect" ... the commentators clearly do not know how far the white travels in one revolution ...

do you?

[tedisbill]

lol, it's the opposite of your approach tedisbill, the "give 'em a whack and hope" technique

You've seen me play then

[tedisbill]

If there's enough space to roll up behind a colour then there's enough of an angle to pot it !!

I like your style jrc!

[jrc750]

now this is sort of interesting jrc because you often hear the commentators say things like "he's a bit short, if the white had rolled once more he'd be perfect" ... the commentators clearly do not know how far the white travels in one revolution ...

do you?

About 164 mm for a full revolution isn't it lol