Shaun Murphy's SECRET Tip For Using The Rest

Nice one, shaun

Great advice by Shaun. Bizarrely, I took up fly fishing last year and through learning to cast, I have found my use of the rest has improved immensely, particularly in how I use my elbow to cast in a straight line. Very similar technique.

Exellent done.

Awesome 👌

Thank you Shaun, now I will beat more noobs ..

Brilliant

Yep, keeping your elbow high up (to at least the same height above the Table as your cueing hand when the shot is played) is The Best Single Piece of Advice for Rest Play contained in this excellent video.

Also select the best side of the rest head to use depending on the shot requirements, your objective should always be to minimize the severity of the angle because you will almost always be striking down through the cueball to a degree on rest play shots . . . also there is a trade off to be considered when using the rest, if you bridge too far away from the cueball then any errors on your final delivery stroke playing the shot and following on through the cueball will be amplified (meaning it becomes more critical to cue through on a straight line) whereas if you position the rest bridge too near to the cueball when playing your shot then you will inevitably play your shot striking down too steeply upon the cueball and this in turn will amplify any unintentional sidespin applied and also curtail the desired natural follow through.

It's a bit more complicated than Shaun conveys here in this clip but he's done a very good job of Keeping It Simple here which is crucially important and for those learning how to use the rest his advice will probably yield them positive results quickly without too much additional information to worry about.

I tried his method and it works really well .

Makes sense with a high elbow, also more like a regular shot swing than a dart shot.

STEPHEN LEE loves using a rest during a match … ideally a sofa bed and a KFC Family Bucket of Chicken

the best cue action with or with out the rest in the game, a joy to watch

Well explained, great tips, from the master himself.

Well he may be cocky but man he’s really good at what he does 💪🏻

can we see a Shaun Murphy tough table challenge but only using the rest? Can he beat Mark Williams?

Front view is cool but the rest of the body suck and f…ki.g damn uglier . People ❤ it for wrong reasons because cheap affordable and bulletproof is unique but more like a poops .

Thanks for opening the world of snooker to all of us 😊

Done this for years and have always been very good with the rest, now I know why

Pity he didn't mention which way to orient the X and why.

Even Stephen learned something new

kyren got burned by murphy hehe

Shaun just talks too much

Pudding face uses his fat back to help his cue action

The worst room decor. Sorry, just sayin.

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Gracious and generous. Thanks Shaun 🇮🇪

Is that shaun🤨 lost quite some weight

Excellent advice. I learned a few suggestions I need to correct! Thank you so much for your videos!!!

Probably best rest tips I've seen.

shaun murphys recent shot against pang in the welsh open recently installs him as an all time great if he wasnt one already brilliant player with one of the best shots ever at a professional snooker match.

Wow. This is one of my favorite videos I've seen on snooker. Well done. Thank you Stephen for having Shaun on and thank you Shaun for excellent tips.

I don't think I've missed with the rest since watching this. Thanks Stephen and Shaun.

The way he explained it I think he will make a great coach.

Don’t do straight shots, your shit remember

Absolute toe nail of a bloke

But obviously not straight shots lol he’s bad at them lol

Break ends at 50 or 60...mine ends at 5 or 6.

So modest, as he nods in agreement as being the best in the world with a rest. And he sounds woke. Ugh

Jack Lisowski is terrible for not playing the correct shot because he will need to use the rest. He did it today. Played right handed & missed, rather than use the rest.
Yet again great content. More please good sir.

He forgot to tell about the grip

Loved this video as I will avoid the rest at all costs. I'll end up stretching and fouling just to avoid it. Thanks

Somehow doesn't look like a regular snooker table. Look smaller in some angles

Fantastic gents 👏👏👏

I love Shaun Murphy. Congrats on winning today!!

Jimmy White & Kyren Wilson are also top class rest players!😊

This man has a talent for instruction

Absolutely TOP audio-visual clip on how to use the rest! Much appreciated even though I love playing with it & very rarely mess up playing with it. 😊

I thought Jimmy was the best with the rest and Ronnie, K Wilson, and Ding is not that far behind. Ronnie and Jimmy didn't have the elbow that high up, I wonder how they pot balls with the rest sometimes. LOL