![]() The billiard table used for carom billiards is a pocketless version, and is typically 3.0 by 1.5 metres (10 ft × 5 ft). In modern French, the word carambolage means 'successive collision', currently used mainly in reference to carom or cannon shots in billiards, and to multiple-vehicle car crashes. But this may simply be folk etymology, as the fruit bears no resemblance to a billiard ball, and there is no direct evidence for such a derivation. Some etymologists have suggested that carambola, in turn, was derived from a yellow-to-orange, tropical Asian fruit also known in Portuguese as a carambola (which was a corruption of the original name of the fruit, karambal in the Marathi language of India), also known as star fruit. It has been pegged variously as a shortening of the Spanish and Portuguese word carambola, or the French word carambole, which are used to describe the red object ball. The word carom, which simply means any strike and rebound, was in use in reference to billiards by at least 1779, sometimes spelled "carrom". The Union Mondiale de Billard (UMB) is the highest international governing body of competitive carom billiards. It is also popular in Asian countries, including Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Vietnam, but is now considered obscure in North America, having been supplanted by pool in popularity. Ĭarom billiards is popular in Europe, particularly France, where it originated. Some of the more prevalent today and historically are (chronologically by apparent date of development): straight rail, one-cushion, balkline, three-cushion and artistic billiards. There is a large array of carom billiards disciplines. The invention as well as the exact date of origin of carom billiards is somewhat obscure but is thought to be traceable to 18th-century France. In its simplest form, the object of the game is to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball on a single shot. 1776, featuring billiards among other parlour activitiesĬarom billiards, also called French billiards and sometimes carambole billiards, is the overarching title of a family of cue sports generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless billiard tables. Video of a game of carom billiards The Family Remy by Januarius Zick, c. ![]() Yes, sometimes in separate leagues/divisions I can tell you from experience.they will LEAVE a pool room to go to another one that they feel their business is more welcome in.and when they do that.A carom billiard table and billiard balls No, todays customers are the ones that everyone calls the "ball bangers".just because they can't play pool as well as the so called "regulars" that frequent a pool room.only thing is.they're the ones that are paying the bills. Todays customers are more demanding than the way they use to be.puting up with junk pool tables to play on. When room owners fail to put in food and alcohol.at least serve beer.and fail to take care of their pool tables.floors, bathrooms, parking lots, lighting.what do you think is going to happen to their business? I've always said.pool rooms don't just go out of business.what they do.is fail to do the things needed to stay in business.and that's the truth. The pool rooms that have closed are the ones that did nothing to keep the customers coming back.when another pool room in the area opened sometimes.or just sat on their butts thinking that they didn't have to do anything to stay in business. Leagues were formed to be played on bar tables.but pool rooms with full size tables still struggle to try and get the same bar leagues to play on their full size pool tables to generate business.and have a hard time doing so, while bars it seems have no problem forming leagues to play on 7ft bar tables.Īs fas as 50% of the pool rooms in this country closing down in the last 5 to 10 years.not hardly. You're kind of like the pool player that only likes playing on a 9ft pocket pool table in the sense that you don't feel that playing pool on a bar table is playing real pool, much the same way a bar table player looks at playing on a 9ft pool table.they just don't care for them much. As far as building a 10ft pocket table and a 10ft 3C table.the use of these tables is totally different.so that requires two different tables, because if you want the best of each.then they have to be of a design each to their own. Having been all over this country and I can safely say.I've seen more 9ft straight rail billiards tables than I've seen 10ft 3C tables. Well, first of all, straight rail billiards is played mostly on 9ft billiards tables.and 3 cushion billiards is played mostly on 10's.but the two games are way different.
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