I am enthralled watching him pocket balls with such confidence.
His focus is amazing.
I am at a point in my game where getting shape is the easy part.
It's the consistent of pocketing balls without losing focus that gets me.
John Schmidt- live 14.1
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His focus is amazing.
I am at a point in my game where getting shape is the easy part.
It's the consistent of pocketing balls without losing focus that gets me.
Missed an easy one. Run ends at 186.
It's that new Toam chalk he's using, that's where all that control comes from, I betcha . I don't care how many he ran while on that tight table, it's
a site to behold for him to stand up and run out a hundred or so and miss and then do it all over again. Yep !
a site to behold for him to stand up and run out a hundred or so and miss and then do it all over again. Yep !
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He looked good except that last shot. I'll follow this as I can. I won't not be surprised if he gets on a real rip and gets close to or beats the other JS #.
This is crazy by itself.
Be heartened by putting the matter in proper perspective, Philly. It has nothing to do with any shortcoming on your part. and likely isn't even substantially improvable for us. By "us" I mean that all non-pros have that same limitation due to the very definition of the word "professional".
-- This is John's profession and has been for many years. That radically shapes the mental elements -- and "focus" is only one of the particular mental elements -- that any top pro has honed for survival in a millimeter-precise profession, and what that contingent of players absolutely must bring to the table and we simply don't have to . . . because we survive and prosper in life by other means and our subconscious knows this.
Consistent, trained focus, resilience in the face of intra-game reversals (challenges to a player's stamina and confidence) these are mental elements that have to consistently exist in the minds of any athletes in any sport, to a degree that most of us would be uncomfortable with, much less capable of consistently maintaining during rack-after-rack of relentlessly precise execution.
Arnaldo
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John's in a trap here with this cloth and balls. Every single rack is work. The runs he is accomplishing are a real testament to how well he plays the game.
I look great until I miss as well…..
J/K
Let’s hope there’s a monster run in there somewhere. I like to sweat pool & pool drama.
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Fatboy
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They seem polished and that helps them going in. It is weird though, they don't seem resilient when hit. The rack doesn't scatter even when hit pretty hard.
They seem to absorb the hit. Maybe they are not as tight as they could be i don't know. I do know if he has to wade through every rack like this it going to be hard to do a giant number. Maybe go to a template.
that table isnt opening as much as some of the others. maybe he isnt cleaning the balls often enough or swapping them out.
does he have a limit when he can change sets of balls or not.
but that table is tighter than the other phony runs and shows it. this is a real test for him.
does he have a limit when he can change sets of balls or not.
but that table is tighter than the other phony runs and shows it. this is a real test for him.
Thank you for that but I think that it is more like being able to let your unconscious take over.
Knowing what to do and then doing it without getting waylaid by extraneous thought.
Think about it.
We have all played enough and hit enough balls that there isn't a shot on the table we have not made 100 times
yet we (some of us) cannot let go of our negative thought processes and let our unconscious do it's job and just play.
That is called mastering the game, if there is such a thing.
So, all the existing runs are phony? How about all of Johns runs? That statement is ridiculous.
Yup, agreed. Even more impressive if they are doing it practicing. If they had money on the line to win or lose, they would probably even be playing better.
Yup, agreed. I've read that's why young players (kids) improve so fast and keep improving. The young brain doesn't focus on past failures. As we get older, we tend to do that more and more. Past failures are negative thoughts; the older we get, the harder they are to keep out. Being an old guy myself, I'm still amazed at the easy shots I can miss once those thoughts push into my head.
This is why we NEVER hear of ANYONE starting ANY sport late in life (say 30's or older) and becoming one of the best. Freaking kids; it ain't fair.
Maha, you do realize that phrase inarguably equates to: "Mosconi's 526 was a phony run."
No way around it. However, it does confer on you the distinction of being the only person in the nominal 172-year history of professional pool to have permitted -- by inference -- such a conclusion for the general readership.
A rough estimate of 43,000? combined members and non-members reading a comment that dismissively slams other great record setters and assuming the experienced poster knows what he/she is talking about.
May we infer that Jayson's astonishing 714 is phony and logically dismiss-able according to your arbitrary metrics for appropriate conditions?
Arnaldo