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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.

I agree with a lot of your position generally, but tighter pockets will serve the game. The casual public does indeed like seeing runouts but if their success rate is too high, it loses the drama. So we do want a balance of misses and safety to create that sense of anxiety and create those...

I was thinking it might be more economical to do it in a single room to save on travel costs with gas so high right now. But it would be cool to do a traveling exhibition and it’s something that is missing from pro pool these days.

I’m just brainstorming. But my thought would be to do it in one venue and get some volunteers. Or even make them pay $10 per match to sit in the chair.

Or even just line up a dozen 100 point games per day and continue any run larger than 70 or something. Still not the same thing as Willie’s context, but it’s in ball park at least.

Agreed, the vision they have for pool is a game that their audience knows and doesn’t require more than a couple of sentences to explain to the audience. The moment we start adding balls, new formats, exotic breaking rules etc. The scope of their audience narrows. For the average fan, 9 ball...

They will want a solution that can be explained to the audience in a single sentence. Personally, I’d go with 9 on the spot and 4 inch pockets for all tournaments.

Balls per inning is a pretty strong predictor. According to Gerry Fs stats, John average 88 balls per inning over 4 days. That’s 14 more than Jayson. I don’t know if that average controls for the adjusted rack, but it wouldn’t make a big difference given how many balls where pocketed over 4 days.

Yes, this is my perspective too. Aside from those suspicious rack placements we’ve seen, John did maintain a bpi similar to Jaysons, I believe, which suggests he is capable of 626. It’s just now I know manipulating the rack is potentially in his playbook which makes me doubt it. So I just...

It disappoints me that instead of addressing the controversy they choose to instead make a copyright claim. I’m surprised that neither them or Schmidt have said anything yet. Maybe they don’t think it’s a big deal, but I do. This was supposed to be a world record attempt so what would he...

I agree it’s his video and he can do what he wants. It’s not a cure for cancer or anything.

I’ve said this before, but I am confident that the people showing up to Johns viewings would still do so even if they had a pirated copy of his DVD. Believing otherwise is like saying that CD sales hurts concert ticket sales. Johns shows would be still be worth it for fans to meet him and ask...

It is probably supposed to be on DAZN, but I wouldn’t subscribe until you see it posted on the DAZN site.

Ah! And then rack somewhere near the last ball, I’ll try that.