Learning 3-Cushion

[12squared]

You are very talented. Thanks for sharing your runs.

 

[pt109]

That´s what i have been doing lately.
I feel i also got stronger in pool too while learning this marvelous game. Of course my pocketing is little bit rusty due playing almost only 3-cushion but i can put 5-7 packs more consistent in pool now than ever!
Anyways I just hit record button often when i practice and I got my first run of 10 on video!
I think I made 4 times 9 before finally got my first 2 digit run.

I set my goal to be able to run 15 someday when I fell love to this game(too).

Terrific…..I got a bit serious about 3-c in my early 30s. It was enlightening. I was a pretty good snooker player…then I found
that I was now hitting some shots at snooker and pool opposite what I used to do…I understood ball reaction much better.

 

[Bob Jewett]

Terrific…..I got a bit serious about 3-c in my early 30s. It was enlightening. I was a pretty good snooker player…then I found
that I was now hitting some shots at snooker and pool opposite what I used to do…I understood ball reaction much better.

For some pool players the so-called "small" carom games are going to be at least as helpful as 3-cushion. I think Efren primarily played cushion caroms and balkline when he played carom billiards. One pocket players take note.

 

[Poolmanis]

Terrific…..I got a bit serious about 3-c in my early 30s. It was enlightening. I was a pretty good snooker player…then I found
that I was now hitting some shots at snooker and pool opposite what I used to do…I understood ball reaction much better.

Yeah. That is what you learn in this game. Many people don´t understand follow and draw can be sidespin on rail too. Also one of best learning from game is that full hit to object ball kinda create sidespin and thin cut eat away much of it. I other words understanding ball speed vs. Spin speed ratio on different cuts.
I started to put more think on those things after listening one of greatest player of all time in 3-c, Torbjörn Blomdahl in commentary booth on 3-c games. Especially those games where he commentate his own games afterwards.

 

[Black-Balled]

Terrific…..I got a bit serious about 3-c in my early 30s. It was enlightening. I was a pretty good snooker player…then I found
that I was now hitting some shots at snooker and pool opposite what I used to do…I understood ball reaction much better.

There are a lot of subtle things happening with balls and cloth that I only became aware of after playing 3c.

 

[pt109]

For some pool players the so-called "small" carom games are going to be at least as helpful as 3-cushion. I think Efren primarily played cushion caroms and balkline when he played carom billiards. One pocket players take note.

You know, Bob…..I was remiss in ignoring straight-rail.
I came off a seven year lay-off early 70s and began a demanding routine….took me a year to feel like a player.
Part of the routine was Walter Lindrum’s nursery cannon exercise….pretty simple…freeze a ball on the rail….
Put the cue ball about one diamond away, straight and double-kiss it back 50 times.
I figured if Walter thought it had value, I’d have to try it.

…late ‘78, in a long one pocket session, I realized that Walter’s shot might have been the most valuable of my drill.
….it had taken the ‘rote’ out of my stroke.

 

[Bob Jewett]

... I started to put more think on those things after listening one of greatest player of all time in 3-c, Torbjörn Blomdahl in commentary booth on 3-c games. Especially those games where he commentate his own games afterwards.

There is a thread -- in the carom sub-forum? -- where games with Blomdahl commentating are gathered. He seems to think a lot more about the shots than most.

 

[jeagle64]

Are you a scratch golfer too? If not, bring that cue next time you golf and you will be. You can do about anything with it from what I’ve seen.


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[Vahmurka]

Part of the routine was Walter Lindrum’s nursery cannon exercise….pretty simple…freeze a ball on the rail….
Put the cue ball about one diamond away, straight and double-kiss it back 50 times.

Is the goal to bring the cue ball exactly one diamond back, or it is okay to have it travel further? I understand the father it gets, the harder the nursing

And what happens if an object ball travels from the rail? Drill is over then?

 

[pt109]

Is the goal to bring the cue ball exactly one diamond back, or it is okay to have it travel further? I understand the father it gets, the harder the nursing

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And what happens if an object ball travels from the rail? Drill is over then?

If you screw up by over-hitting a ball or whatever, start over again.
if you get a little out of line , it gets more interesting to get back on line by using spin.

 

[nataddrho]

You know, Bob…..I was remiss in ignoring straight-rail.
I came off a seven year lay-off early 70s and began a demanding routine….took me a year to feel like a player.
Part of the routine was Walter Lindrum’s nursery cannon exercise….pretty simple…freeze a ball on the rail….
Put the cue ball about one diamond away, straight and double-kiss it back 50 times.
I figured if Walter thought it had value, I’d have to try it.

…late ‘78, in a long one pocket session, I realized that Walter’s shot might have been the most valuable of my drill.
….it had taken the ‘rote’ out of my stroke.

What do you mean by rote?

Simple carom is very interesting to me. I only have pool table access so I practice carom and 1 cushion as much as I can. I am hoping it will help on an actual 10 ft heated table.

 

[pt109]

What do you mean by rote?

Simple carom is very interesting to me. I only have pool table access so I practice carom and 1 cushion as much as I can. I am hoping it will help on an actual 10 ft heated table.

Rote, to me, is controlling your body….the cue is moving because you’re holding on to the damn thing.
When the cue starts to move from your mind, the relationship between your cue and you is a whole different feeling.
When I was young, I used to say that a great stroke was like a tail wagging a dog….……it’s a Zen riddle.