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Test & Fine-Tune Your AIMING SYSTEMS with these Fixed Layouts

These Half-Table Carom Billiards layouts offer an excellent variety of table setups that show up in game after game. For Full-Table layouts, see the book Carom Billiards: MORE Riddles & Puzzles.

The layouts are designed to allow experimentation to try various cue ball speeds, spins, and angles. This provides significant personal competitive benefits:

Intellectual training - Evaluate the layouts and consider how many pathway options are available. Make sketches of paths and...

Test & Fine-Tune Your AIMING SYSTEMS with these Fixed Layouts

These Full-Table Carom Billiards layouts offer an excellent variety of table setups that show up in game after game. For Half-Table layouts, see the book Carom Billiards: Some Riddles & Puzzles.

The layouts are designed to allow experimentation to try various cue ball speeds, spins, and angles. This provides significant personal competitive benefits:

Intellectual training - Evaluate the layouts and consider how many pathway options are available. Make sketches of paths and...

During competitions, many of the shots you see use a cue ball path known as "Around the World." Basically, the path is from a corner, across to the opposite long rail. From there, the cue ball goes to the short rail and then the other long rail. From the second long rail, the cue ball travels to the other, side corner.

This collection of around the world shots provides you with a extensive variety of scoring solutions. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

There are two ways...

One of the interest cue ball patterns in 3-cushion billiards is the diagonal cross-corner shot. The cue ball comes out of one corner of the table and then goes diagonally across the table into the other corner. The cue ball can follow a simple diagonal, a parallel diagonal, and even triple diagonals.

This is an extensive assortment of cross-corner shots, each showing an successful scoring attempt. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

There are two ways you can use these...

There are a set of cue ball pattern shots that are fascinating. These are the shots where the cue ball goes into one or more cushions before contacting the first object ball. These are most common when the two object balls are close together. The player sends the cue ball into three cushions first. But there are many variations including one cushion first and two cushions first.

This book assembles large variety of these types of shots. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

During competitions, you will sometimes see a pro player will use the zig-zag pattern to score. The concept is simple - the first and second rail or the second & third rail occur cross table.

This collection of zig-zag shots provides you with quite a few different scoring solutions. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

There are two ways you can use these zig-zag examples. First - as a mental exercise. You can study the ball layout and the ball paths to determine how the shot...

One of the interesting shot patterns is known as full table circle. These shots follow a clockwise or counter-clockwise path around the table rails.

This book contains a large assortment of these types of shots. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

There are two ways you can use these examples. First - as a mental exercise. Study the ball layout and the ball paths to determine how the shot was played.

Second - as a table exercise. Set the balls up in the positions. Try...

There are a lot of times when the two object balls are located in a half-table area. One of the more common shots is to play the cue ball in a half table circle. It comes off the first object ball, into the long rail, short rail, and opposite long rail and then connect with the second object ball.

This is a large selection of these types of shots. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

There are two ways you can use these examples. First - as a mental exercise. Study the ball...

As you watch the pro players compete, every once in a while you will seen an unusual shot. It is so unusual that you have to replay the shot in your memory to understand what happened.

This book is a collection of those shots that have occurred during international competitions. For each shot, there are two table layouts. The first is the ball positions on the table. The second is how the pro player made the point.

There are two ways you can use these examples. First - as a mental exercise. Study the ball layout and the ball paths to determine how the shot was played.