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Texas Carom Club

9ball did to billiards what hiphop did to america
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world elite player xavier gretillat give you 5 mins of english training for free here, you can subscribe to his video site for hrs upon hrs of

ONE CUSHION
balkline
and straight rail training from an elite practitioner of technical carom

30 bucks a yr to subscribe

50 plus time swiss champion
several time european champion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_cpkiiXoZU
 

Texas Carom Club

9ball did to billiards what hiphop did to america
Silver Member
A very young kent here
As easy as this can become for some
Its still so very damm hard to do for many
Including me


https://youtu.be/1HNoIYDUhR4

Last yr after reading the hoppe book on it
I could regularly get 15 plus
Even a 28 one day
But very soon i lost it and struggle for 5 -10
 

Dean_H

luv the small modalities
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I have heard that is was actually some guys from Quebec or Montreal that invented the rail nurse and not USA. Apparently Carom billiards was played in Quebec once upon a time but it is all pool now.
 

maldito

AzB Silver Member
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I have heard that is was actually some guys from Quebec or Montreal that invented the rail nurse and not USA. Apparently Carom billiards was played in Quebec once upon a time but it is all pool now.

Daly's Billiard book (pages 10 - 12 credits the running nurse developing from a stationary nurse - 2 forms of the stationary nurse used by A. P. Rudolphe, and Joseph Dion and eventually from that came the idea of a "running nurse" developed by Jacob Shaeffer and William Sexton. I don't know if any one these guys was from Canada .

Cyrille Dion 1843- 1878 was from Canada and held world titles in American 4 Ball and
Pool.
 

Bob Jewett

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Staff member
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I think the best book in English for the small games is still Daly's Billiard Book. Here is an Ebay link apparently to all copies of the Dover reprint. Right now you can get a copy delivered to your house for under $5 total including shipping.

https://www.ebay.com/p/291251
 

Texas Carom Club

9ball did to billiards what hiphop did to america
Silver Member
my sr average has gone up since the last time i was practicing like crazy, took some time away from it

now that i have a nice new table, and back loving this game, i have a sr buddy and we play often now,
at first i was so out of stoke with the game, about 6 weeks back, now seems like i getting the better of him more often, last 4 games we played i won 3, all played with over 1 average , which before i was struggling to get
now the ball is rolling so to speak
 

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