Billiards and Pool Online Video Collection

Instructional

• Accustats Creative Edge Instructional Series, with Pat Flemming
  • Part 1 - 9-ball safeties
  • Part 2 - inside English, follow safety, jump shot, shooting over balls and rails
  • Part 3 - measured shots, double banks, 9-Ball racking
  • Final Chapter - 14.1 straight pool breakshots, and 9-ball push-outs
• Bert Kinister's instructional series
• Charlie Bryant's break technique
  • detailed analysis
• CueTV instructional series
• Dr. Dave's Illustrated Principles instructional series
• Ewa Mataya Laurance instructional series with Brunswick
• Forcefollow (Marcus Norwood) video collection
• Joe Tucker's Video School instructional series
  • of particular interest: cue ball squirt and swerve (part 1, part 2, part 3)
• Larry Neville break analysis (see his break here)
• Loree Jon Jones and Johnny Archer instructional series with Home Billliards
• Mike Massey power draw shot (and another)
• Mike Page's instructional videos (squirt, frozen balls, aiming, draw, pre-shot routine)
• Power break by Thorsten Hohmann in super slow motion (oblique view, side view)
• Ralph Eckert's lessons on position-play reference lines
• Ray Martin's straight-pool seminar
• Roger Long's instructional video collection
• Samm Diep and Mike Fieldhammer Inside Pool instructional series
• Thorsten Hohmann & Mike Massey instructional series
  • grip and bridge length, bridge, stance and aim, staying down, follow, cue ball control,
• Tom "Dr. Cue" Rossman APA instructional series
• Tom Simpson's jump shot demonstrations (part 1, part 2)

see also:

• drills

snooker:

• Dell Hill coaching series (with good intro to Snooker stance)

Great matches and great shots

great pool matches:

• 1996 PBT Legends of 9-Ball Tournament -, Efren Reyes vs. Jim Rempe
• 1999 World Pool Championship - Efren Reyes vs. Francisco Bustamante
• 2002 8-Ball on bar box tournament in Canton Ohio - Corey Deuel vs Niels Feijen (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7)
• 2004 US Open 9-Ball Championship - John Schmidt vs. Larry Nevel
• 2004 Derby City Classic 9-Ball - Efren Reyes vs. Mika Immonen
• 2005 US Open 9-Ball Championship - Mika Immonen vs. Ismael Paez
• 2005 US Open 9-Ball Championship - Efren Reyes vs. Earl Strickland
• 2006 World Pool Masters 9-Ball - Rodney Morris vs. Niels Feijen
• 2006 US Open 9-Ball Championship - Earl Strickland vs. Ralf Souquet
• 2006 IPT North American 8-Ball Open in Las Vegas - Marlon Manalo vs Torsten Hohmann (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7, part 8, part 9, part 10, part 11, part 12, part 13)
• 2007 US Open 9-Ball Championship - Earl Strickland vs. Francisco Bustamante
• 2007 US Open 9-Ball Championship - Evgeny Stalev vs. Warren Kiamco
• 2007 US Open 9-Ball Championship - Efren Reyes vs. John Schmidt
• 2007 Steve Mizerak 10-ball Championship - Corey Deuel vs. Dennis Hatch (part 1, part 2, part 3)
• 2010 Mosconi Cup 9-Ball - Appleton vs. van Boening

see also:

• BD's 30 best matches of the last 30 years
• links to many resources for live and archived streamed match videos (e.g., The BigTruck Show and The Action Report (TAR))

pool match highlights and great shots:

• Alain Martel incredible rail-jump-billiard safety escape in 2005
• Chao Fong-Pang vs. Francisco Bustamante, 2001 International Challenge of Champions, final, sudden death tiebreaker
• Corey Deuel vs. Mika Immonen great kick and fancy draw
• Corey Deuel jump draw for up-table position
• Efren "The Magician" Reyes
  • 8-ball-on-break dance
  • greatest shot ever against Earl
  • end-of-match drama against Jimmy White
  • 4-rail kick shot
  • 3-rail kick shot against Alcano
  • 1P two-rail bank off pocket point
  • jump-draw shot against Archer
  • follow hook shot for position
  • kick-stick-carom shot
  • draw into cluster for position
  • kick shot off side pocket point after two-way jump-bank miss
  • straight-pool bank-break shot
  • tactical 8-ball game against Busty
  • best shots collection
  • "Super Filipino" collection (with rap song)
  • 2010 10-ball Challenge of Legends Match highlights against Chao Fong-Pang
  • nine consecutive 9-ball racks against Bustamante
• Luong Dung vs. Vilmos Foldes 2006 3-foul rule strategic battle
• Pagulayan 2004 6-balls-on-break loss to Santos Sambajon
• Wu Chia Qing 2004 eight consecutive 9-ball rack runs
• collection of pool shots with Japanese commentary, with some good safety battles (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6)

snooker:

• Steve Davis vs Dennis Taylor 1985 World Championship Final (with amazing come-back and end-of-match drama)
• Alex Higgins' 1972 exhibition 2:55 100 break with awesome opening shot
• Tony Drago 3:33 100 break at 1996 UK Championship
• Cliff Thornburn 1983 147 break at 1983 World Championship (1st ever), with lucky opening shot
• collection of great shots from the 2006 World Championship
• Ding vs. Hamilton amazing 147 max break at 2007 Masters
• Jimmy White radical draw shots (1984 vs. Kirk Stevens)
• 14-year-old Luca Brecel example 147 break (2009) (and another)
• Maguire kick escape off pocket walls (2008 vs. O'Sullivan)
• Ronnie "The Rocket" O'Sullivan
  • 147 break at the 2008 World Championship
  • impressive 147 in 2011
• see also:

• Global Cue Sports video library

3-cushion billiards:

• 2011 run of 21 by Kasidokostas

Equipment

• cue stick manufacturing steps
• cue tip information and repair
• cue tip instalation (LePro)
• Home Billiards instructional videos:
  • table installation - part 1, part 2
  • slate installation
  • cloth installation
  • pocket and rail installation
  • cleaning a pool table
  • cleaning pool balls
  • replacing a cue tip
• Meucci broom stick vs. Predator
• pool table - "how to buy" buyers guide
• pool table maintenance
• pool table manufacturing steps
• Predator squirt exaggeration "promo"

Trick shots

• 276 best trick shots on YouTube (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
• Billiards Blogger 10 best trick shot videos
• chopsticks billiards
• dominoes tick shot (multi-table, and amazing)
• Eric Yow demos
• "Fast Larry" Guninger (on YouTube also)
  • cue-ball bounce, hit-in-air, double wing shot
  • show-closing aerial off the foot rail
• Freddy "The Beard" Bentivegna bank shots
  • Eddie Taylor shot
  • Piggy Bank shot
• "impossible shots" using English, throw, and spin transfer
  • NV B.92 - "Impossible" cut shots, from VEPS V
  • Joe Tucker's laser-assisted extreme cuts
  • Vernon Elliott cross-side bank by Joe Tucker (another more dramatic version)
    • see also: HSV A.142 - Vernon Elliott cross-side bank with chalk on the object ball to increase throw and spin transfer
  • 90-degree cut by Bob Jewett
• JMASEM, with some sick masse shots
• jump shot with extreme elevation and small gap (see HSV B.19)
  • less than toothpick gap, another
• Mike Massey
  • boot trick shot
  • draw with English off frozen balls for three-rail billiard
  • finger pool
  • frozen-to-cushion-and-snookered shot options
  • jump shot variations
  • power draw (another example)
  • trick shot exhibition collection
• one-pocket escape ... pulling ball from pocket
• Semih Sayginer 3-cushion billiards exhibition highlights
  • series (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4)
  • shot collection
• Trick Shot Tim video collection
• venomtrickshots on YouTube ("masse attack" also)
• Willie Mosconi 1987 trick shot exposition
• Yoshikazu Kimura demos

Miscellaneous (mostly for fun)

• amazing snooker 30 break with no arms!
• Austrian super-slow motion billiards video
• Barbi and GI Joe match
• billiard juggling
• chicken plays pool for Bud Light
• Chihuahua playing pool
• "Color of Money" bowling parody
• "Donald in MathMagic Land" 3-cushioin billiards demo
• dominoes tick shot (multi-table, and amazing)
• finger pool (with a younger Mike)
• Guinness advertisements about the "origins of pool/billiards"
  • the table is invented
  • the cue is invented
  • the felt is added
• ice pool table
• interactive projection pool table
• Johnson City 1972 pool hustling story
• marine stabalized pool table
• mini trick shots by PrayingMantis on small toy table
• photos - famous pool pictures and celebrities
• Q-men with Irving Crane, Charlie Perterson, and Willie Hoppe
• robots playing pool
  • "Deep Green" Canadian robot (another more-recent video)
  • German dual armed robot (for more info, click here)
  • Willow Garage PR2 (for more info, click here)
• slide show of some of the legends of pool
• Steve Mizerak tribute
• "two balls" and a coin trick shot
• "Ya Got Trouble" song about billiards and pool from the movie "The Music Man"

Other Online Resources

• AZBtv.com (collection of historical, instructional, and other videos)
• Billiards Club TV (collection of various match and instructional videos)
• CaromTV (collection of 3-cushion billiards videos)
• CueTV (great collection of diverse online billiards videos)
• Dr. Dave's super-slow-motion pool and billiards high-speed video clips
• Forcefollow's video library (video links)
• Global Cue Sports Video Library (most snooker)
• International Pool Tour - IPT (scheduled live-stream matches)
• OnTheBreakNews.com - OTBn TV (match videos and interviews)
• OnTheRailTV (match videos)
• PoolVids.com (user-contributed videos)
• TheActionReport - TAR (mostly pay-per-view streamed matches)
• Wholesalecue (online championship videos)