Like a correct grip, achieving an effective snooker strike is not an easy thing to go about. You need to do enough practice and invest lot of time and energy. It may take years of practice to understand before you can actually start hitting a correct stroke. On the contrary, if you have the foresight and get into the basic underlying principle of playing a good stroke, then it would be a matter of hardly some days and you can win snooker game. For those snooker players, who haven’t yet developed a stroke, it is extremely easy for them to stroke, except when they make their final forward cue movements. In such a condition, they just play some warm up strokes, and when they become perfect, they play at their ease.
To win snooker game, it is extremely important that you play good and emphatic stroke, after deciding on the fact that what will be the power level of the stroke and what is needed to accomplish. It is a good idea and also required, to divide stroke at 10 different levels, with average stroke levels falling in the speed range of 1 to 3 ½. I don’t remember the speed where you need to cross five, except during the break. Now as you have decided to play on at decided speed for the short stroke, be cautious, not to increase the speed of your stroke on the last stroke.
If you change the stroke speed during the snooker strike, then you are not playing at the stroke speeds that followed the event of your practicing the warm up strokes. In such case, you have very high probability of missing the shots having high difficulty levels. When the tip of the stick touches the cue ball, the power is transferred to the cue ball and the speed of the stick begins to slow down. At this very moment, you increase the speed of the stroke slightly. This is necessary to do because you will be maintaining the original speed of the warm up strokes that were playing during the practice sessions. Keep increasing the speed, until the tip of your cue stick starts pulling away from the tip of the cue ball. Remember to allow your arm to come to stop as natural, and you should not go for any extended follow through with a force.
All that I have explained you here will help you win snooker game. I repeat, “All you need to do is Just Practice and Nothing Else." Keep playing the warm up shots to your ease, and sooner you will find that you have developed an exceptional stroke capability and increased precision too. I find one possible reason of increasing the speed on the contact stroke, and that is that players tend to hit cue ball from the tip. My suggestion out here is that you forget the very idea of hitting the cue ball. The only thing important at this time is that you strike the tip of the stick at the point on the cue ball where you wanted it to strike. Focus entirely on maintaining the speed and the stroke, nothing else.