Advice for unexperienced players

eze123. Thank !! Yes, just see posts I have started. Check my Korean Billiard post tons of stuff, also #11 in this post.
 
eze123 said:
Yes, but how feasible really is learning Balkline is in the US? I assumed the guy who started the thread lives in the US - if he was in Europe he'd have access to alot more guidance than a forum, but I could be wrong.

Is there literally anyone in the US that plays balkline? There aren't many billiard players in the US, fewer straight rail players, and balkline, forget about it. Outside of that accu-stats exhibition video with Caudron, how many Americans have ever even seen balkline played? I doubt there's anything in English on instruction. If you have your own table I guess you could do it, if not, what room is going to let you come in with tailor's chalk and start drawing on their table? The whole straight-balkline-3C progression idea sounds good, but I don't think it's really workable in this country.
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Saddly, yes, I do agree with you where anybody would let you take a chalk or a white grease pen and create lines on their 5x10 table. As far as English instruction on Balkline (and this has been mentioned many times), if you can spare $100 on a three-four hours, two disc DVD of Frederic Caudron, then you will get instruction in English as well as his expertise in all carom disciplines.

I mean, as far as I can think, if you can persuade a billiard owner or create a petition to put in a couple of carom tables, then things would happen. I can say that it only takes one person to create a difference. As I am trying to persuade people to take up carom billiards (of all disciplines) from where I live at, I think you can at least put effort into talking to a higher authority to consider.
 
eze123 said:
Yes, but how feasible really is learning Balkline is in the US? I assumed the guy who started the thread lives in the US - if he was in Europe he'd have access to alot more guidance than a forum, but I could be wrong.

Yes, I do live in the US. But you know what, after you get involved in something you get to know people who are involved too. Last night I went to Tijuana to play caroms with my dad, (and by the way I didn't spend much time with my dad before but caroms is making us spend more time together and I'm glad) and we met a few old men who play 3C and they told us of other places where people play caroms. Now I want to make my 11 year old nephew play caroms and the good thing is that he is excited about it. Now my friends know about the game because I talk about the game all the time, some of them have played with me and others are wiling to learn. I'm going to promote this game for the rest of my life !!!!!. I'm gonna make a t-shirt that says "Juege Carambola !!!! Play Caroms !!!!"
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ha, that's funny, I actually ordered that Caudron video a week and a half ago. Now if it'll ever get here...

SlickRick_PCS said:
if you can spare $100 on a three-four hours, two disc DVD of Frederic Caudron, then you will get instruction in English as well as his expertise in all carom disciplines.
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Thanks lot billiardshot, I'm going to start little by little, it's going to taka a lot of time but it will be worth it. Again thanks a lot guys you have been very helpful. And let's promote this game among the people we know !!!
 
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