Pool players and carom

nataddrho

nataddrho

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What do you think of Carom games? What do you like? What don't you like? What would you want to learn?
 
I'd also like to know what carom players thing pool players should know. It blows my mind when I see the paths they take and speed control. I know the felt is faster but still.

What patterns/standard shots should all pool players know?
 
There should be more carom tables around then there are. A wonderful game, especially three cushion. Teaches you how to move to cue ball around the table, with not as hard a stroke as you think. I miss the days when carom tables were around. I think Beneath The Sur is the authority here.

All the best,
WW
 
i love 3 cushion but never get to play it
the systems are very helpful in pool
 
I do enjoy 3C but very rarely play it, I think it's one of the core billiards games, and should be one of the cue sports in the Olympics along with snooker and 8 ball. Straight pool is more pure, but I think would lose the audience. 8 Ball is a lot easier to follow for most people, maybe 9 ball.

I do find that some of the things they do with getting hits are magic, go that many rails and execute a hit within a tenth of an inch.
 
i got to visit Mazin's room in 2016 while on a short vacation. the only time i've seen and touched 3c in real life.

after a short primer on an open table i "tried" it. for about 25 mins i moved the spheres. and i wouldn't describe it as much more than that. those grapefruit balls.... i'd say the analogy is driving a station wagon, vs driving an 18 wheeler.

i may have made 1 or 2 accidental points, but anything purposeful didn't happen. i tried what would be a totally basic shot, 30+ times. and i can't say i honed in on any solution.

for me, pocket billiards is still a very new experience. i don't have any urge to diversify or dabble. i'd think it would be very difficult to improve at both simultaneously. if i lived in Boston, with the 3c base out of that room, yeah i just might commit to just 3c. but outside of that, it's a curiosity at this point.

i really do enjoy beneath the sur's posts though.
 
hang-the-9 said:
I do enjoy 3C but very rarely play it, I think it's one of the core billiards games, and should be one of the cue sports in the Olympics along with snooker and 8 ball. Straight pool is more pure, but I think would lose the audience. 8 Ball is a lot easier to follow for most people, maybe 9 ball.

I do find that some of the things they do with getting hits are magic, go that many rails and execute a hit within a tenth of an inch.
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Actually, in the World Games, which is kind of the Olympics tryout games, the cue sports are snooker, 3C, and men and women's 9-ball. It was just held recently, and 4 years from now the World Games will be in the US, Birmingham, AL.
 
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