Teach Yourself : Billiards

Contents: 1. Historical background of billiards. 2. Skills and techniques of billiards. 3. Rules of billiards.

"Billiards is a game which demands the utmost precision of eye and touch, and the nearer the physical action involved approaches the mechanical, the more successful will be the mastery achieved. The person who desires to become a first-class billiards player, or even a capable one, is faced at the outset, as in other games, with the task of mastering the basic principles, in short, he must learn to walk before he tries to run.

Teach Yourself Billiards discusses all the aspects of Billiards viz., skills, techniques, tactics, rules with latest dimensions and measurements. This book will prove very useful to the beginners to learn the skills, tactics, technique of Billiards. In order to better understand each and every skills of Billiards some useful illustrations are given.

In this way, the present book has wide scope for the new aspirant learners who wish to develop and sharpen their billiards skills, students and teachers of physical education and sports science etc." (jacket)