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Here is a video of Jean MARTY recorded in Egypt in the 1980'.
Jean MARTY explains :
- some positions to get the rail nurse position
- how to move the balls in the corners of the billiard' table at free games.
- the principles to play the line at the balkline' game.
In my club, we have installed LED lighning for carom billiards.
The playing surface is perfectly lit.
Here are the references of this material.
Here is another billiard' video from the Kozoom youtube channel.
Myung-Woo CHO realizes a serie of 24 points at the 3 cushions game.
This vidéo, that Kozoom purposes on Youtube, shows an amazing serie witch Frederic CAUDRON at 3 cushions billiard game.
Enjoy the best competitions live on Kozoom.com.
Richard 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.
Here is a video of carom' trickshots by Paul COUESPEL.
U can find more knowledge' videos in his Web site (balkline, rail nurse, ...).
Billard Passion is 10 years old.
I purpose you a video which shows 30 gather shots for the cushion game:
Here are two vidéos of Alain REMOND.
The first video shows us how to get more points with closed billiard' balls.
The second vidéo explains which ball must we play first.
This video shows a billiard' lesson of Laurent GUENET.
He presents the technic to play with closed balls.
He plays the points with his finger to explain the principles.
The french society Decathlon purposes now some billiard' tables, balls, cue and accessories.
More informations with a click on this link
I find this video in the Youtube account of Sebastien Rousseau.
Willy GERIMONT, a master French player of billiard, explains a three cushion system.
He shows a system with a trajectory of big cushion, small cushion and big cushion.
I find in the BillardCollection youtube chanel an old video that explains:
- How are made ivory balls
- Why the corners have been created in carom billiard
- Why the blakline gales have been created
- Some trikshots
He makes 40 points in only 4 innings !
World billiard' champion in the 40's, Willie MOSCONI purpose some nice trickshots.
Some points made on two tables at the same time are magnificent:
Dick realizes a serie of 22 points:
This video from YouTube presents 23 possibilities to realize the starting point at carom.
Five years after my own billiard video of '15 starting points', the player Long NGuyen imaginates a lot of others figures.
P.Niessen wins the match in one inning with a serie of 200 points.
In this video, J-P. De Bruijn plays at cushion' game versus J. Bongers.
He wins the match (100 points to 7 points in 2 innings) with nice series in the corner recorded in close-up.
He realizes 25 points in 4 innings that is to say 6.250 of average !
T.BLOMDAHL makes an exhibition for the 20 years birthday of the "Billard Club Vicinois".
With a powerfull shot, he realizes a point with 10 cushions:
This video presents some original billiard' trickshots.
Indeed, some shots are made with one arm or without watching the table...
Here is a contribution of Martial; Thanks to him.
We can play at american game with a dynamic display of the balls' trajectories:
When we can have a carom sumilator like this ?
In this billiard match, Marco made 40 points in 8 innings...
Here is an English video which presents the principles of this game:
Here is a second extract of the DVD 'venom trickshots 2' which countains a lot of trickshots made by F. KOHLER :
Here is an extract of the last DVD of Florian KOHLER - alias VENOM - which creates superb trickshots of billiards:
- jumps of balls
- masses with long curves
- hit of several balls
- ...
For many positions frequently present on the billiard table, Vincent gives judicious tips on:
- how to realize a good starting point ?
- quantity of ball to aim to avoid the kiss
- modification of trajectory according to the shot' power
- the replacement of the hit ball
- ...
Magali plays with an average of 50.
In this video, you can appreciate:
- a 123 points' serie (with rail nurse position at the end)
- a very nice level of play
- an efficient conception
Starting from all videos of this blog, I realize a compilation of unusual and spectacular bank shots.
It presents very good billiard players, expert in 3 cushions or artistic games:
Here is a video about the system MyWebSport.
With this high-tech installation, we can play a game between 2 differents places.
The equipment of each place is the following:
- a camera to record the billiard table
- a television to show video and sound of the other place
- a laser system which display the exact place of the balls on the table
The quality of this video and the serie of Frederic are very good:
This video presents Frederic CAUDRON very relaxed which make some trickshots at 3 cushion billiard games:
In this Chinese video, you can watch a 3-year-old baby playing snooker.
The future will tell us if this training is appropriate and efficient...
I like to see this asiatic video where a billiard' player makes spectacular and wonderfull trickshots:
- he puts into holes a lot of balls in one shot
- he makes a jump to touch and put into holes some balls above bottles of coca
- ...
This video, recorded by the MGM in the 1950' and found in YouTube, shows trickshots made by the world billiard' champions Willie MOSCONI et Jimmy CARAS:
In this video of 1949, the Chili' billiard champion Raul VALDIVIA realize an exhibition for the Chili's president.
My preferred shot is the one with the jumping balls and the bottle.
U can found pedagogic explanations about:
- full, half-ball and one the board aim
- bounces on the cushions
- lateral spin
Here are 2 videos which show gather shots in carom game.
The quality of recording is not superb like actual videos but their interessant countains could perhaps inspire you.
Georges BOUREZG makes a lot of gather shots:
Paul COUESPELL shows 30 points:
This video shows 20 original points of three cushions made by an artist of billiard games: Semith SAYGINER.
Despite a low quality of recording, the balls trajectories are surprising:
In this video, J.TRILLES makes a very nice billiard' artistic exhibition with a lot of original points::
This video of few minutes shows 3 cushions points made by T.BLOMDAHL and D.SANCHEZ in the 3-Magic club:
Indeed, a new digital book purposes ball's positions with a response to the question 'how can I take the rail nurse position ?'.
For these 43 positions, with Xavier GRETILLAT, U can watch:
- the position of the balls on the table
- explanations and gesture
- interact view 3D of the table and balls
- multi-angular video with the execution of the point
In January 1967, he became the European Championship at 47/1 balkline with a general average of 35 !
U can watch this great champion and the organisation of this great event in this short video:
In this video, recorded by Achour FERHAT,you can watch Brahim DJOUBRI in 47/2 balkline.
He made 250 points in one inning and 33 minutes !
Here is this performance:
Other free videos about balkline are available with following this link.
J. SANCHO purposes a lot of systems to help us for making great series at 3 cushion games.
This last system explains the anticipation for the points made with a small quantity of lateral spin:
Without counting, this document details how to make:
- 3 cushion
- 2 cushion and et 2 cushion bank-shot
- 3 cushion bank-shot
Clic on this link to the download the document.
Don't hesitate to clic on this link to watch all the free downloads of the site.
Here is a 5 minutes compilation where I join the best billiard' videos of 3 cushions made by Semith SAYGINER.
This great turkish player realizes easily :
- extremely difficult points with long masse shots
- points made with curves on a rolling carpet
- magnific bank-shot
Perhaps, some players will be inspire by these ingenious 3 cushion bank-shots ...
I not advise you to play on your billiard table the points made by masses shots or including curves !
Let's watch now this demonstration of unusual 3 cushion points:
To watch other sympatic and free videos about 3 cushions, clic on this link.
The video with masse shot in the corner of the billiard' table shows a point made with 10 cushions...
In this short film, I purpose to you un carom billiard point with 11 cushions !
Watch Semith SAYGINER in action :
The next video shows 50 figures of artistic billiard:
- Some represent a part of the official program,
- Others were created by international great players
Before each figure, a diagram explain the trajectories of the balls on the table.
You can notice that you can download for free the entire artistic program (100 figures) in the download area.
This video shows points made in the table's corner table with a special artistic cue
All these masse shots are more and more complex.
It's incredible the maximum number of cushions made at the end of this video !
It's Christmas before Christmas in Billard-Passion.
There is a video where Juanjo TRILLES makes very nice artistic' points.
His billiard table is installed in a wonderfull room.
I dream to have this kind of magnific room in my home to put a billiard table.
Here is the exhibition:
He made a serie of 28 points.
He shares this world record with Junichi KOMORI (JP) and Raymond CEULEMANS (BE).
Here is the video:
Don't hesitate to watch the new article 'rail nurse at cushion game' where Alain plays and comments a long serie.
He plays versus Jorge AMILCAR and he makes 40 points in 9 innings.
I found in YouTube this free video where Zanetti plays versus Stenzel at the 3 cushions' billiard game.
Zanetti make 40 points in 8 innings with a run of 19 ... the average of this game is 5 !
Fred, Jamy and Sabine explain the principles of billiard in a french video called "C'est pas Sorcier".
You can find the synopsis of the film on this link
Just watch this video on YouTube
This videos shows Raymond CEULEMANS in a trickshot exhibition at Roothaert Biljartcentre in Tilburg, the Netherlands
This 3 cushions' video (Jaspers vs Caudron) was found on YouTube
Many thanks to Christian FRABOULET who recorded that match with his own camera
U can watch a 22 run by Jaspers even though Caudron won
It's a big performance because he finishes the 120 points in only 4 innings !
A new multimedia application for iPad ( and perhaps, Androïd later ) will arrive in october.
It purpose a lot of interactive possibilities:
- diagrams
- 3D views
- videos with multiple angles of view
- explanation and description about the shoot to play
With it, we can improve our training level on a billiard table.
Look at this demonstration (source CAROMBOOKS.COM):
To make a shot, with a good direction of the played ball on the billiard table, U can apply some parameters before to play the shot
On the website of Laurent GUENET, I find a series of questions/answers usefull to do this
QUESTIONS
A How do we get a natural shot of 45° ?
B For a natural shot how do you adjust the speed of the player ball ?
C For a one cushion natural shot what is the parameter steering the ball 1 ?
D With a direct backspin dropshot, opened angle, what is the parameter steering the ball 1 ?
E With a backspin, acute angle, what is the use of the quantity of ball ?
F With a backspin one cushion what is the use of english ?
G With a backspin, acute angle, what is the parameter influencing the speed of the ball 1 ?
H On a natural follow through what is the parameter steering the ball 1 ?
I - On a one cushion follow through what is the parameter influencing the speed of the ball 1 ?
J On a direct right angle what is the use of the quantity of ball ?
K On the compensation point, one for two, what is the use of english ?
L On the compensation point, one for two, what is the use of the height of attack ?
M On the compensation point, one for two, when the ball 2 is on the good way, the ball 1 get a good way too buy does not come as far as the ball 3, how do you manage to correct the shot ?
N With a piqué, what is the parameter influencing the distance covered by the ball 2 ?
O With a piqué, what parameters are influencing the backspin of the ball 1 ?
P On the backspin, acute angle, what parameters are influencing the distance of the backspin of ball 1 ?
ANSWERS
A - half ball (+ or -) and heading shot in the ball
B - with the quantity of ball
by taking less than half a ball the ball is rolling faster and further and is less deflected on the side
by taking more than half a ball the ball is rolling slower and not as far and is less deflected on the side
C - the english
The amount of english could be 1 to 2,5 to obtain a deflection of 1 to 2,5 spaces between two spots (on the side of the table), this for a one cushion shot in the width.
D - the height of the attack
A drop shot is obtained by taking full ball, it is the height of the attack which is steering the ball 1
E - it manages the direction of ball 1
F - it manages the direction of ball 1
G - the height of the attack
H - the quantity
I - the height of the attack
J - to the speed of ball 1
K - to the speed of ball 1
L - to the direction of ball 1
M - you need to vary the speed of ball 1, therefore you must modify the english and the height of the attack to adjust the direction of ball 1
N - the tilt of the cue
More vertical, less is the distance running by ball 2
Less vertical, more distance runned by ball 2
O - the height of the attack and the strength of the shot
Lowering the attack and/or higher stength is resulting in more backspin for ball 1
P - the height of the attack and the strength
Lowering the attack and/or higher stength is resulting in more backspin for ball 1
U can watch GOUGELIN vs FERREIRA (300 pts in five innings )
Watch the big serie of 268 pts made after the 17th minute
- the typical points and their realisation
- the traps to avoid
- that we hit the object ball twice as big as the aimed quantity
- where is the hiting point compared with the aim
- aiming : click, move and click the little gray circle
- distance between balls 1 and 2 : move the cursor key
The more the balls are close, the more the touched quantity of the red ball will be important, independently of the aim.
On those two sketches, with a distance of 2 centimeters between balls, we see that aiming 1/2 or 3/4 of ball 2 don't change the positions of the 2 balls after the hit.
- Aiming a quantity of 1/2 ball
- Aiming a quantity of 3/4 ball
To make easier the shot it is better to reduce the aimed quantity of ball 2
Emile WAFFLARD was world champion at balkline 71/2 and as won 10 europeans title ( balkline 71/2, 47/1, 47/2 and cushion )
He teach billiard at Frédéric Caudron, Eddy Leppens and Peter De Backer.
On this YouTube link, there are some videos where he explains the balkline conception.
In this short video, you can found specials points made by E.WAFFLARD: