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I learnt today that billiards at its best is cue sports at its worst.

I knock in 100 breaks but struggle at this game i played geet sethi when he played in rileys luton mid late 80s ..what a player

My wife took me down from the blue rope 😂😂😂

I could probably do very well at this game . I can go in off at will ….

Absolute bollocks

I love this game... If you have a match where the player managed to position the ball on two cushions near the pocket and made endless cannons please put a link

The last shot he could easily have made a cannon... But I guess he just said heck with it... I need to sit

Genuine question from a snooker player ignorant to the rules of billiards. What denotes the end of a player's visit to the table? I was quite surprised watching this when no pot or in-off were made and yet the guy stayed at the table.

I nodded off watching this.

Very very skillful if playing at a high level i remember players like rex Williams great touch players

I don't understand that game

I remember playing pool in the Czech Republic. Got shouted at by a Czech because I was using an English bridge rather than a Czechy/American ie a ring by your finger version. Went on to tell me about Czech union of pool players and how everyone has do it this way. I just told him to**** off!

All that & misses such an easy red...

I'm sure this takes incredible skill but sport is supposed to be about entertainment right? Why on earth would anyone pay to watch this? Some simple rule changes would do wonders. You need rules that put as much distance between the balls as possible so that cannons are much harder. How about when you pot the red it is then placed at the furthest spot from the yellow ball? I don't know, I'm sure there's plenty that could be done to bring it in to the 21st century.

Wat a.simple cheating way to play

The first time I played it I was still shaking having just run the bulls in Pamplona. A fascinating game, especially when a good player seems to be out of position.

Great game to play, not so great to watch

22:05, beautiful

Now make a 147. Oh wait ….

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A lot of repetition in a break like this. I find it quite boring to watch and much prefer snooker

lousy sport.

Absolutely brilliant video. It is incredible that any amateur player could be that good at any age but to still be that good in his seventies is almost beyond credibility.

One of best player in the world.

I have my ear plugs in to listen while I reproduce every shot. Wow my game has picked up at least 40 extra points at top of table with the knock method. So thankyou very much for putting this video out there for all to learn from.

The most stupid game ever invented

I've been playing semi-regularly for 25 years. I've had precisely 3 breaks of 150+ at a handicap that's never been better than +30 for a (200) game. There's a guy playing Number 1 in our comp that ... well he hasn't played in a couple of years cos he's been unwell, but in a (200) game he played off a handicap of -185. It's utterly magic watching him.

Billiards is like a Mozart symphony snooker is like a violin solo of Mozart pool is like spice girls and 9 ball is like Justin beiber

I’m lost. What’s the rules or point of this? What’s happening and where is the judge placing the ball and why?

Hugely skilful game but boring as hell after 2 minutes. Snooker is more fun.

There’s something really strangely compelling about this. It’s trying to anticipate the shot that they’ll play and getting it (consistently ) wrong that is most fun. Cannons take real skill and they always leave on a pot or an inoff

0:20 - introduction 0:47 - fundamentals 5:36 - Natural angle in-offs #1 8:14 - using check side to narrow the natural angle 9:09 - use running side to widen the natural angle 9:47 - forcing in-offs 11:25 - other examples of forcing in-offs 12:47 - training your eye for natural angles, long loser from D 14:49 - middle pocket losers 15:48 - short jenny (beautiful instruction here) 17:08 - long jenny 17:52 - run-through in-offs 18:56 - kiss in-offs 19:33 - (double) kiss cannons 21:20 - long run through in-offs (Along the nap) 22:07 - long run through in-offs (Against the nap) 23:14 - screw in-offs 22:53 - run-off in-offs 24:35 - cushion first cannon, against the nap *Awkward positions* 25:29 - cue ball and red on opposite side of the long cushion 26:04 - cue ball and red along the cush 26:59 - ricochet off the cushion, using top check side, for a cannon 27:53 - long, screw check sides in-offs *Top of the table (TOTT)* 29:03 - Introduction 30:00 - The box & sequences leading to TOTT 32:32 - Recovering the opponent’s cue ball 34:32 - Postman’s knock demonstration 39:38 - Be patient in developing into postman’s knock position 42:12 - Using checkside to get high on the red without getting too close to the side cush 43:38 - getting to the ‘dribble’ position 44:17 - focus on getting opponent cb into the box 46:33 - Sequence leading back into ideal TOTT position (oppo CB back into the box) 47:16 - Sequence II 47:59 - Sequence III (Feather the red from a cannon, getting both balls together) 48:44 - Kiss Cannon into a box 49:30 - Slip-through cannon 50:43 - Sequence IV, Lovely, lengthy sequence on how to get back into ideal position 57:45 - gentle floating white, keeping it nice and close. 1:00:36 - Getting back to top of the table with opponent CB in the box already. 1:01:01 - Better to end up very high on the red than low. 1:01:46 - Intricacies in recovering the white to the center line 1:03:39 - sequences leading to the red ending on the pyramid spot because oppo CB occupied the billiards spot 1:06:20 - Discussion of drop cannons 1:12:40 - Epilogue 1:15:16 - Lovely story about Walter Lindrum 1:17:23 - Exhibition match between Bob Marshall and Robby Foldvari

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I'm new to billiards at the age of 73. The vid is great and I'm on its 3rd run through !

Where are the mushrooms?

Just realised there's a 300 break in that game , what a man!

21:36 !! nearly missed so I'll give the table a good beating

I was invited to his home for a lesson in billiards and he was brilliant to watch. He had the best stance of a billiard / snooker player I have ever seen.

what's going on?

Absolute gem of a video ! Many thanks for a making it available.

I am sure there is a lot of skill involved in positioning the balls et cetera but damn watching paint dry becomes positively riveting after watching this for about 10 minutes

I think that he is using a Brady 2pce cue with secret joint, made in Adelaide, which might be the same cue that he used when i saw him in Melbourne at an exhibition in about 1987 (he must have in 1987 given up using his good old cue). He surprised everyone (1987) when he rolled the Brady cue across the table & it jumped & jumped koz it had a giant bend. And he then surprised everyone when he unscrewed the secret wood to wood joint. He called the Brady cue the best cue in the world. But i had a Brady cue, & looking back today i can see that it had a big heavy brass midjoint - most players today would say that it was a terrible cue. Today i have lots of cues with secret joints (the yanks call them sneaky petes) & some of the joints are brilliant, very light, not much brass, partly using stainless steel. Bob's Brady cue here looks to have a brass ferrule. In a 1965 exhibition i dont think that it had a ferrule, it looked to have a fat 2pce leather tip, with a plastic backing, & probly glued with a good old fashioned green wafer. The new Brady cue in hs 1965 exhibition was just his trick cue. Alltho in 1965 one or two shots look to be with his good old cue, that i think in later years he gave to Matthew Bolton's dad.

Anyone know what happens if you pot two or even all 3 balls?

The skill and patience in this game has impressed me no end. I used to think billiards was the poor relation of snooker. It is not.

Dumbest pool game ever

lousy referee - obstructing the player all the time

Damn, my friends and I have been playing 3 points for a cannon that strikes the red ball first but these pros are only playing two. Probably means that my best score is a hoax!

Question from someone who plays poorly: why do the professionals always avoid combinations? Often, it looks like they could score the pot and cannon together quite easily.