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It wasn’t directed at any person, persons or groups. Nor was it overly aggressive in nature. Although I think we want to discourage regular cursing, the odd F bomb isn’t anything to be concerned about. Two things we need in pool, passion and personality. Although there are ways to express...

I’ve heard that before and love that story. I’m sure there were plenty of people who didn’t expect him to be a former champion level boxer.

I probably wasnt clear. We can observe that people don’t progress at the same pace and some will get better quicker. So we know some people have more of an aptitude for the game. But without defining talent we don’t know what the implications of this aptitude is. Or how much of it is...

I find the discussion about whether talent exists is a little dull. If we put 10 complete beginners in a room for a week with Mark Wilson giving instruction, those 10 people will not be at equal skill levels at the end of the week. So certainly there are people who have an aptitude for the...

I think talent exists, sort of. For things like pool, it has a lot more to do with what is between your ears than what is in your blood. One of the main differences you see between long time lower level players and higher level players is likelihood of learning from mistakes, Higher level...

Who’s to say they don’t get better every year, it’s just the pace of improvement that is different between players. Improvement is slow after the 600 level and probably triply so over the 800 range. And then it also depends on whether they are practicing to improve or practicing to maintain...

They really need to do a better job of advertising these events. I always seem to learn about them halfway through the first or even second day.

I would recommend practicing the different aspects of 14.1 in isolation. For example, Brainwash drill to learn patterns Similarly, just toss 15 balls on the table and see how many times in a row you can run them out. If you can’t run 50 with them spread apart, then you can’t run 50 playing...

The tool is intended to help you find your vision centre by positioning yourself in such a way that you can see a straight, unbroken line. In snooker they teach that you should stand behind the shot with your head on the line of the shot. This tool is intended to help you understand exactly...

Agree here. You can hit a pool ball pretty poorly and still make the ball if you are lined up properly. I always thought that the shot approach was the most under explored topic in any of the instructional material. It sort of explained like this “stand behind the shot with your right...

To test this grey area theory out, he should try it in the next 14.1 tournament he plays in. I’m sure his opponent will accept that explanation. I love that documentary. Someone should totally do this. If Jayson weren’t already an established top player it would even be a similar premise...

I wasn’t suggesting that one should be fudging their practice runs to inflate a false number. Only that you can do what you want in your basement and no one cares. A world record attempt isn’t the time to push the limits of the rules to gain an unfair advantage.

At least he partially owns it. Though I don’t buy the whole idea of the racking rules not being clear.

Danny D always says this is as good as a break shot. I think that’s an overstatement but it’s a strong safety.

I don’t know what he was thinking but there is no way that he would think that it’s ok to adjust the rack position within a certain area. That’s something you might do alone and in your basement to see how far your run could have gone, not in an official world record attempt, whether it is...

Thanks I’ll check it out. With respect to your previous post and motivation. I think the critical thing here is differentiating between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators. Stuff like prestige, status and such are extrinsic. The ultimate issue with that is satisfaction is largely contingent...

Thanks Demetrius, I look forward to your follow up podcast.

Interesting perspectives here. I think one of the reasons we work to eliminate errors entirely and get down on ourselves for those mistakes is that if you consider many player view the 700+ Standard as being the ultimate end goal, that’s not a very clearly defined goal. By that I mean, it’s...

I was just listening to this today. I really enjoyed it. Though I do think on the topic of diagnosing errors Josh may be a touch too dismissive of fundamentals. But the point is well made that players can apply fixes based on their biases rather that accurately diagnosing the problem. I...

That’s what they did in snooker. The slowest player now averages just around 30ish seconds per shot. But there used to be players around 40 seconds per shot.