I saw something recently where SVB purportedly said he practiced 7-8 hours/day 7 days/week. Also that his fave game is 8-ball. If that is true, for someone to practice that much you pretty much have to be addicted to it. I can't imagine giving that much time. To anything. I know it takes crazy amounts of time for many years to get to top level but to maintain that amount of practice over a long period of time, it just seems super-human. Maybe it's such that the ones at the very top truly are freaks of nature. One-in-a-million talent, yes, but practice dedication that seems unreal?
Crazy amount of practice
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How much time do you spend working at your job each week?
At one time, I was playing 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Then I took 6 years off. At the height of my skill I was playing the same 10-12 hours a day six or seven days a week. It was 2012. At the time, Johnny Archer called me over and said, "Jaden, you practice more than anyone I've ever seen" I replied, "What about Shane?" He said "True..." and I went back to playing.
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I would call it a work ethic. Some people work 50-60 hours a week. The practice hours you quote are not over the top for a true professional.
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I think you're envisioning him at the table for seven straight hours that probably isn't the case. I don't even play anymore and I bet I play two or three hours a day.
When I had pool rooms it seems like I was always on the table when I was there. I would bet between hitting balls practicing and matching up I averaged 7-8 hours a day.
I went in my billiard room this morning flipped on the TV and I probably played about an hour during The today Show and may over the time on any given day play three or four hours off and on.
It's not concentrated practice the TV is usually on in the background but I am on the table.
If you have your own table you can really get in a lot of hours of practice.
That's why if you're any kind of a pool player it's absolutely essential that you have your own table.
Time ain't it! Lol.
Svb made great happen.
He saw what it was, how he could take (earn) what he wanted from the game and how to both get to and stay at the top.
I'm not surprised by svb's practice stats.
Not true. You could practice 10 hours a day, it won't make you a champion. You will get better but to reach SVB level. No shot.
Facts, you'll get massive improvement from first play to about 5 years in. After that no matter what you do or pay for you're going to only improve incrementally. These guys who magically reached pro level after 15 or 20 years are complete outliers if they even exist. Most of them reach top of the food chain before they actually even know how to play
Most Pro Athletes work at their sport like it is a real job, not 5/15 minutes a day.
Because someone is waiting to take your spot, and will paying position.
Tiger Woods in his prime cold be described as a work-a-holic,
Because someone is waiting to take your spot, and will paying position.
Tiger Woods in his prime cold be described as a work-a-holic,
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Always the Nazis. They ruin all threads, eventually.
Truth hurt about Tiger
Tiger in his prime brought a lot of new blood to his sport Golf.
All you do here is critics, drive people away, and talk trash. Your like a Pool cancer.
Are your parents proud doing shit job of raising you? That what they did shit job!
Goodwin says it's the law.
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It's a catch 22. No matter how much talent, without proper practice, training and a lot of it, you will only be average no matter what your endeavors.
On the other hand, a minimally talented person, properly trained and practiced can reach a reasonably high level of skill.
I am sure there are many on say the golf tour who make a nice living but we're not born gifted but worked their ass off.
Relating it to pool. When local tours such as Tommy Kennedy runs got popular you would see it from month to month with amature players. Guys who work for the post office or drive truck all of a sudden knocking off name players.
Once they put in the time and got experience average players became forces to be reckoned with. I saw it on the pool room with guys maybe I used to give the 7 ball all of a sudden it was a different game.
They are out there playing in those tour events and getting better and smarter. Not to mention they are not afraid of me so much.
Why should they be, last weekend they may have played some champion and went hill hill. They have real confidence now based on real experience. You don't have to be gifted to be good at pool, just put in the time and learn.
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You have to do proof reading before you hit post
haha. You're killing me Smalls
Yup. Everyone thinks if you put in the work, you're a champion. Think of how many former minor league baseball players that played for 20 years, busting it every day, cages, lifting, running, etc and never got the call to the Bigs. I mean, they played little league, HS, college ball, drafted by a Pro team and sent to the Minors.... played in the minors for years. It's tough, you can get better, but without that "special" something, not gonna happen. It's tough in any sport to be among the elite let alone being the best at it.