Billiards Breaks Videos

[RaNeN]

Does Anybody Know Where I/we Can Get Watch/download Good Breaks Of Billiards???

[LuckyPhil]

There are several billiards videos available.
Your best bet is to try Roger Lee who has 9 1hr ‘Archive’ videos for sale showing mostly old B&W footage of Walter/Horace Lindrum, Joe Davis, Willie Smith, and Tom Newman etc. These vids also have a small amount of old snooker/pool/carom in them as well. Although these are not actually ‘instructional videos’ you can certainly learn a lot from them. Roger’s website is www.billiardsandsnookerarchive.co.uk

Also there is an instructional video by Bob Marshall called ‘Bob Marshall Billiards’, which includes footage of a 300 odd break he made against Robby Foldvari. This is available from the Western Australia Snooker website at http://www.snookerwa.org.au/for-sale.shtml There is also a biography book for sale as well.

There is another biography book and video available called ‘Walter Lindrum – Billiards Phenomenon’. Andrew Ricketts wrote the book. His webpage is http://users.dragnet.com.au/~ricketts/ or try http://www.hotellindrum.com.au/lindrum/walter.html
I doubt whether you can still get hold of the original video, but Roger Lee has copies for sale (see above). The original video was on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

A BBC video exists by Clive Everton and Fred Davis called ‘Billiards – A Potted History’. Not sure if you can still order it but I got mine from eBay for about a fiver.

A home video of Mike Russell playing a charity exhibition is available from Brian Watson btw1935@blueyonder.co.uk
Brian also has several other billiards videos, recorded from various sources (TV broadcasts, camcorder etc)
He also sell occasionally on ebay, his ‘shop’ is at http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1...3aMEFSQ3aMESOI

I have heard of the existence of a video by Australian player Murt O’Donohue, but I’ve not seen it. I think it is only available if you are ‘in the know’ with a certain circle of people. I do have a copy of his book though. I would like to get a copy of the video so if anyone knows how to get it I would be very interested!

Lastly, Jack Karnhem made 3 instructional videos. The one you could get in the shops was mostly snooker coaching but did include some billiards demonstration. The other two are both 3 hours long and called ‘Billiards at Home with Jack Karnhem’ and ‘Its Tough at The Top'. These were shot on home video cameras and only available from Jack himself when he was still alive. Several big breaks were made during the recording of these tapes. Dunno where you’d get hold of them now, apart from eBay.

[LuckyPhil]

There are several billiards videos available.
Your best bet is to try Roger Lee who has 9 1hr ‘Archive’ videos for sale showing mostly old B&W footage of Walter/Horace Lindrum, Joe Davis, Willie Smith, and Tom Newman etc. These vids also have a small amount of old snooker/pool/carom in them as well. Although these are not actually ‘instructional videos’ you can certainly learn a lot from them. Roger’s website is www.billiardsandsnookerarchive.co.uk although his website is well out of date now. Your best bet is to email him via the site and ask what he has available.

Also there is an instructional video by Bob Marshall called ‘Bob Marshall Billiards’, which includes footage of a 300 odd break he made against Robby Foldvari. This is available from the Western Australia Snooker website at http://www.snookerwa.org.au/for-sale.shtml There is also a biography book for sale as well.

There is another biography book and video available called ‘Walter Lindrum – Billiards Phenomenon’. Andrew Ricketts wrote the book. His webpage is http://users.dragnet.com.au/~ricketts/ or try http://www.hotellindrum.com.au/lindrum/walter.html
I doubt whether you can still get hold of the original video, but Roger Lee has copies for sale (see above). The original video was on ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

A BBC video exists by Clive Everton and Fred Davis called ‘Billiards – A Potted History’. Not sure if you can still order it but I got mine from eBay for about a fiver.

A home video of Mike Russell playing a charity exhibition is available from Brian Watson btw1935@blueyonder.co.uk
Brian also has several other billiards videos, recorded from various sources (TV broadcasts, camcorder etc)
He also sell occasionally on ebay, his ‘shop’ is at http://search.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQfgtpZ1...3aMEFSQ3aMESOI

I have heard of the existence of a video by Australian player Murt O’Donohue, but I’ve not seen it. I think it is only available if you are ‘in the know’ with a certain circle of people. I do have a copy of his book though. I would like to get a copy of the video so if anyone knows how to get it I would be very interested!

Lastly, Jack Karnhem made 3 instructional videos. The one you could get in the shops was mostly snooker coaching but did include some billiards demonstration. The other two are both 3 hours long and called ‘Billiards at Home with Jack Karnhem’ and ‘Its Tough at The Top'. These were shot on home video cameras and only available from Jack himself when he was still alive. Several big breaks were made during the recording of these tapes. Dunno where you’d get hold of them now, apart from eBay.

[LuckyPhil]

Sorry about the duplicate message above, but the 'edit' facility on this site sucks!

[RaNeN]

Thanx bro. I will check them out.

[JP1]

Thanx bro. I will check them out.

Check You Tube for Danik Lucas of Queensland Australia, he has a range of large breaks inl. a 459 on it, also a nice run of nursery cannons, Danik would be the worlds best nursery cannon player right now, also a fantastic TOT player, he has a number of 600+ breaks in competition and several 1000 breaks in practice, second only to Australias multible National Champion Matthew Bolton. There should also be a break on it from Australias Matthew Bolton making a 650 + break in easily accounting for Peter Gilchrist in the QLD Open final, Matthews score was like double of what Gilchrist managed. Geet Sethi tried to get the hang of playing nursery cannons and spent quite some time with the late Murt O Donohue after Murt had returned to his native New Zealand but Geet for all the talent he has never grasped nursery cannons as a scoring method. :snooker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8omt6...eature=related

[Redphex]

the video section at www.englishbilliards.org has become quite comprehensive collection.

http://www.englishbilliards.org/videos

[Cyril]

I got the Murt O'Donoghue video from ebay a few years ago and it is a cracking watch. The guy was a legend!

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find it for ages, think I may have recorded East Enders over it!!

Think the guys name who I brought it from was Watson, but I'm not sure now? It was a reproduced vid anyway and he was clearly a big billiard fan.

[Csmith]

http://video.englishbilliards.at/

This site has number of match videos. The 2008 Austrian Open vids are a repeat of the ones on Englishbilliards.org. All the other ones are new as far I can tell.

I love the game, but it's tough to watch if you don't have anything keeping score for you.

This site has more matches,

http://www.hsebc.at/index.php?option...ons&Itemid=109

The score is kept at the bottom which is cool, but a lot of these guys are rank amateurs.

[jb134]

Check You Tube for Danik Lucas of Queensland Australia, he has a range of large breaks inl. a 459 on it, also a nice run of nursery cannons, Danik would be the worlds best nursery cannon player right now, also a fantastic TOT player, he has a number of 600+ breaks in competition and several 1000 breaks in practice, second only to Australias multible National Champion Matthew Bolton. There should also be a break on it from Australias Matthew Bolton making a 650 + break in easily accounting for Peter Gilchrist in the QLD Open final, Matthews score was like double of what Gilchrist managed. Geet Sethi tried to get the hang of playing nursery cannons and spent quite some time with the late Murt O Donohue after Murt had returned to his native New Zealand but Geet for all the talent he has never grasped nursery cannons as a scoring method. :snooker:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8omt6...eature=related

Is there a case for saying that the less heavily napped cloths nowadays and the more responsive cushions makes nurseries more difficult than in past times?

[JP1]

No, Walter Lindrum only played on tables with strip rubber cushions, the bounce from them is more accurate, doubt if there is even any tables left in use with strip rubber cushions.
The late Alby Johnson run nurseries second only to WL and he did not care what rubber the cushions were ?? shame Alby never had a match temperament.

[maxwelhouse]

http://www.billiardvideo.ru/ :snooker:

[jb134]

JP1, were you not going to put up some info about Lindrums cue a few months ago, or did you do so and I missed it?

[jb134]

http://www.billiardvideo.ru/ :snooker:

Can you explain that game please?

[Csmith]

Can you explain that game please?

You may use any ball as a cue ball. Points are scored by pot or in-off. Eight points wins the game.

There is another version where there is a designated cue ball. Whenever the an in-off is scored the player has the option of which ball to remove from the table (since to win you must have more points than balls on the table). Cue ball is placed behind the baulk (I think).

The balls are almost the same width as the pocket. They slam them in forcing the ball past the point.