John Schmidt kick-carom shot!! Slo-mo's amazing

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PidSnEgR07w

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