Amazing Billiard Freestyle by Sylvestre Belliard

Sylvestre Belliard is a wonderful freestyle billiard player. He is 16 years old. He said what he had done like Billiard Artistique. Do you know what is billiard artistic?

This game is fairly different from other games. You do not play from the position left at the end of the previous shot, the balls are set up on the table in well-defined positions. The player does not have the choice of the shot: the shot must be played in a pre-established manner and points are scored only if this path is followed. The player is allowed three attempts for each shot. Shots are worth between 5 and 11 points depending on their difficulty. Do not start dreaming though, 5 or 6 points does not mean the shot is easy.

Artisitic billiards is supposed to be played with ivory balls. It is worth only 5 pts, so there are people who find this fairly easy. A jump draw. Such shots are called coulé-rétro in French (literally follow-draw): because of the jump the cue ball moves forward after contacting the first object ball, then the spin kicks in and the cue ball comes back. It is worth 5 pts.