Progress to billiards
You will find on this site:
Tips for billiard games
- tips and tricks on the position of the body and hands as well as the gesture
- rebound systems on cushions
- information about the material (how are the cushions or slates manufacteder, ...)
- trajectory calculations in the 'downloads' section
- lots of videos that bring educational or spectacular content
An English version
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Russian billard' gameRichard gives me some pictures of russian' billiard.
Wikipedia says that the rules are like the American rules where you have to put the balls in the pockets of the table.
Once the first shoot to break the triangle is made with a red ball (not photographed), we take one of the balls numbered as a ball game.
It is used to hit one of the other numbered balls that must go into a pocket.
As soon as the player has returned 8 balls, the game is won.
The russian' balls are bigger than carom balls:
The 6 pockets of the table are small:
The billiard table is nicely decorated:
Stéphane NOLE, a french billiard' master, explains how to make a good movement and presents some gather shots.
U can visit his website layanole.fr to find technicals papers with video for some gather shots.