Snooker is one of those sports that I appreciate a lot and I have to say, it is one of my favorite indoor sports. I can remember the first time I came across snooker, at first, I thought it was going to be very easy to play… in fact, I remember arguing with a friend that snooker was easy to play and if I was giving the chance to play, I was going to play it… lol… in my mind, I thought it was just about hitting the balls, neither did I know that a lot of learning and skills was involved and it wasn’t even easy to hit the ball correctly (the snooker way). I lost the argument of course because we got to play (my friend was already good at snooker) – and from that moment, I learnt that you cannot assume that you know something unless you try it first (that was a valuable lesson).
My love for snooker began way back in the days… learning how to play snooker was quite challenging because it wasn’t all about knowing how to hit a snooker ball, there is a bit of mathematics involved as well… you need to understand angles in a way, either subconsciously in order to play snooker well. That is what sets the great snooker players apart from the rest. In video games, there are line guides you can turn on to show you which direction the ball will go when you hit it… however, in real life snooker, there isn’t anything like guides other than your eyes and imagination and calculation. This is why snooker isn’t easy to play. After I got the grip of how to play snooker, I immediately fell in love with the sport as I am always a big fan of games that require a lot of thinking and technique. It was the calculation and thinking involved that made me love snooker so much. As always, with continuous practice, I began pretty good at it… not the greatest, but good enough to win matches against others.