Snooker
Snooker is a fantastic sport for hand/eye coordination, concentration and muscle control.
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It has nerve-wracking competitions:
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Suspense
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As well as incredible skills
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The professional snooker players work hard to make sure they are top of their game.
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They compete across the world and can earn staggering amounts of money for the big competitions. Unsurprisingly, snooker is fast growing in popularity and has a quickly developing junior section.
Never played snooker before?
Snooker is played on a snooker table and the aim of the game is to ‘pot’ (snooker lingo) the different coloured balls into the pockets. You always hit the white ball first using a snooker cue and aim to hit another ball with the white so that it falls into a pocket. You must pot a red ball before you can move on to a colour. There are 15 red balls and they are worth 1 point each. You can choose any colour to pot after a red and they have different points depending on the colour.
Yellow is 2
Green 3
Brown 4
Blue 5
Pink 6
Black 7
If there are red balls still on the table, the coloured balls are replaced back on to the table after they have gone into a pocket.
Once all the red balls are in the pockets you then try to pot the colours but in the order of their value as above. So yellow, green, brown, blue, pink then black.
It remains your turn all the time you are potting the balls. If you miss then it is your opponents turn or they can choose to let you take another turn.
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Want to give snooker a go?
There is a national official club finder! https://clubfinder.epsb.co.uk/
All clubs have equipment you can borrow but the WPBSA (World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association), particularly recommend choosing a ‘147 Club’, which are the green icons on the map. These clubs meet their minimum standards for welfare and safeguarding.
Already play snooker?
Why not find a coach to improve your game?
https://www.wpbsa.com/coaching/
You could then enter the U14 Championship. The membership fee has just been reduced to just £1 and to enter a competition it’s again just £1. For more information visit https://www.epsb.co.uk/under-14-championship-shaping-the-future-of-our-sport
We sent some questions to Kyren Wilson who is currently number 9 in the world! This is what he had to say:
Want to watch the professionals in action?
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The Scottish Open takes place in December and you can get tickets for any day December 9th to 13th
http://www.worldsnooker.com/tickets/2019-19-com-scottish-open/
Heard of the Snooker Shoot Out competition?
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Shoot Out tickets: http://www.worldsnooker.com/tickets/2020-snooker-shoot-out/
Did you know, World Snooker has a YouTube show called Baize Watch? They have let us show you this episode which also features a section on how snooker cues are made.
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