While you are playing carrom, there starts coming a moment when you just know. You have aligned the striker to the coin and the pocket and then you start getting an intuition that this shot will go through.
In that moment, there is a certainty between breaths and when you hit the striker, it hits the coin and the coin falls flawlessly into the pocket. Somehow, there are certain dots that you have connected in the shape of the shot and the feeling on pocketing that coin is happiness. You just know!
Similarly, after a little practice, one starts getting the intuition when the shot will not go through. The shape doesn’t form and the dots don’t connect even though the shot may be a simple shot. You just know!
Getting this intuition and delivering on it is an indication that you have transitioned to an intermediate level from a beginner level. Here, the game may be considerably improved by improving the quality of the striker, coins and the carrom board itself.
However, there is no substitute to deliberate practice and carefully honing this intuition. On iterations of the same shot over hundreds of times, the shape of the shot starts forming faster and the intuition helps calibrate the shot of the striker to the coin and into the pocket.
You can look at the board and see the shot and know the shot and then make micro-adjustments. These are evident to you but are magic to a beginner; that is when you have started the journey into expert level. The shot is now a muscle+intuition memory. Your control has machine-like precision.
Everything till here is just preparation. The real journey starts here. You just know!