Billiard

Billiards is a sport that fall into the category of sports concentration, so much needed endurance and mental understanding is correct and should be supported by excellent physical ability to be capable of achieving higher and more stable.

Sport is played on a table and with a special auxiliary equipment and its own rules. The game is divided on some type, among other types of Carom, English Billiard and Pool. It can be played individually or in teams.

The origins of this billiard game are not clearly known, many sources explained that the game originated from France, Italy, Spain, or China. But many sources explained that the origin of this game is a game commonly played in the park as well as Croquet (cricket) is a popular play in Eastern Europe and France in the 15th century, which in the end the game was moved to the room with table by a green cloth resembling lawn lined with little added to the edge of the table. Driven by long wooden ball called "mace" or Billiard Sticks.

The word billiard alone is estimated to come from the word "billart" meaning wooden stick or "Bille" meaning ball. At first, the game is played with two balls on the table and the six pockets as in the game Croquet Wicket (cricket) by using a straight rod as the target of reflection. Entering the 18th century, the goal and the target stick is no longer used, just balls and pockets only.

Since the early 1800s, the game is widely played by the nobility that therefore the game is ever popular with the name of Noble Game of Billiards, however many also evidence that shows that the game has been played by people of different social levels , In the 1600s, the game was already well known. Shakespeare also mentions the game in his "Antony and Cleopatra" at that time called The Old Egyptian Sport.

In 1675 the billiard popular in the UK. And the same year published rule book billiards. Further scientific billiards as a sport popularized by Captain Mingaud, a political prisoner of government when the French Revolution. So love with billiards, he refused to be released from prison when his sentence ended.

Mingaud others find the tip, ie extra skin at the end of the cue. With the punch tip so more accurate and easier to control the cue ball. Tip findings eventually harden and reduce the effectiveness of the punches that need to be replaced periodically. Mingaud eventually leave prison and roving exhibitions Biliard French do.

Jack Carr is a coach billiard English credited with finding techniques blow off-center, which hit the cue ball at point off-center to get the effect of spin. Now blow off-center is known as the English. In the UK a blow like this are called side. He also found the idea of chalking on the surface of the tip to improve the accuracy of punch. Throughout 1820 Jack Carr around europe, conduct training while selling magical billiard Chalk Twisting his findings.

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