John Schmidt kick-carom shot!! Slo-mo's amazing
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- Опубліковано 7 лис 2016
- This is an amazing John Schmidt shot few players would've seen (or dared). My excerpted clip is at normal speed, followed by 4 slo-mo’s so you can examine the physics of it. We all know he had couple of logical, less risky safety shots available, but he was feeling his oats, playing well and was itching to get a run underway, and simply couldn’t resist it once he saw it. He knew it would dazzle the railbirds.
You might correctly say that it was over-the-top-risky, especially being a finals match, and was even unintentionally dismissive of who his opponent was (top-runner Hohmann), but it’s very likely a shot he’s successfully attempted many times when he got himself stuck in the middle of a relatively unimportant practice-session run.
Johnny Archer was co-commentating with Shaun Wilkie who was moved to almost bewilderedly exclaim, “What a shot!” Johnny agreed and commented (paraphrasing): “Finding the shot is one thing, but pulling the trigger is another.”
Watch how John beams with a huge, properly self-satisfied grin, knowing what a dazzler he’s pulled off in front of an audience.
John comes with this great kick-carom shot out of the pack -- that no one expected, including the commentators -- a few seconds after he starts eyeing it around the 4:15 point of this video (link below) of the entire match posted by Dennis Walsh, compliments of Inside Pool TV:
• John Schmidt Thorsten ... - Спорт
Schmitty!!!!! Nice shot Tex..
Cool!!!Can U upload complete match please?
The link to the complete match is shown when you click SHOW MORE (seen above), but for your convenience, Mrdjan, here it is again: ua-cam.com/video/PidSnEgR07w/v-deo.html
Interesting: John did not have to kick and glance off the 5 to make the 4, but kicked with enough side spin to hit it directly, which means it was as dead off the 2 as can be - which makes me think Thorsten must have kicked himself for not checking the rack more thoroughly before leaving the cue ball up table. Surely if I'd done the same, I'd wonder what the heck I was thinking to leave that shot. Not that everyone sees it or pulls it off 100% of the time, but on this level of play, Thorsten clearly overlooked something, surprisingly so.
Leon: you're innocently quite wrong about Thorsten "must have kicked himself" or overlooked anything. I asked Thorsten after the match about that exact thing you've postulated. He said *that shot* was so high-risk no professional player would have risked it in a major tournament unless he/she -- either didn't give a damn, or for whatever foolish reason -- was very confident that *even if the shot failed* he/she would eventually win the match anyway. Thorsten sending the CB up-table was the correct decision -- barring some ultra-risky, low-percentage move by John (successful against all odds as it turned out). Btw, John, like Corey Deuel, free-wheels tons of highly-unusual shots and super-stroking positional plays during casual practicing sessions. He's made (and missed) kick-carom replies exactly like the one seen here hundreds of times, learning things that other pros (except for Efren) don't know.
@@raycarltonbilliards5798 Oh, I'm not saying it can't be missed, even if it's obviously dead as can be. What I'm saying is Thorsten must have been aware it was there, and I find it hard to believe he left it - people have shot the exact same type of shot against me even when the had to glance off the neighboring ball (here the 5) to make up for a kiss-off that's aiming high (low in this scenario would be towards the bottom rail nuckle of the corner pocket), which is way riskier, and even then I hate leaving it simply because the safety that Johnny describes in the commentary, hitting the 5 so it doesn't hit anything, following the cue ball to side rail so the stack covers the 5, implies rolling the cue ball at a distance aiming for a fairly precise hit on the 5 to get a perfect result. Needless to say, playing some young gun, they're liable to graze the 6 and go two rails back to where Thorsten left the cue ball, if not closer to the head rail, a type of shot I'm too old to pull off with any consistency, in short, this type of leave makes me feel I may be forcing my opponent into kicking at the 4 and run out on me. Bottom line is, if the carom was aiming low (towards the bottom rail), I'd not dare to leave this shot to anyone - percentages go way up compared to trying either of the two safeties (there are other options, of course, none of them 100% fool-proof). Just got a reply from John while I was typing this, by the way:
"I had momentum on my side.i had won world 14.1 two weeks prior and then right before this match ran 152 and out in 150 point match then this shot came up first shot against Thorston.
I made it and ran 96 and safe I think and won 150 to 12 I think.
I was on a roll.
I won 14000 and flew home and my gf said nothing except will I pick up eggs and milk.
Lol"
Leon: Meinungen sind wie Bauchnabel - jeder hat einen. 😂 😂😂
@@raycarltonbilliards5798 Das ist klar! Aber John's Antwort hast Du gelesen? Echt witzig.
@@raycarltonbilliards5798 Danke übrigens für all die Uralt-Videos, einfach super!