Sorry James,
I do have comparable shoes with heels of 1" and soft soles.
But I was referring to the distance between the shoe heels of the player and the pedal keys - he needs to point his feet really down to press the natural pedal keys. My question is: when your legs and feet are at rest, and you don't actually play a pedal key, what distance would the heel of your shoe have to the pedal keys? From what I see on the video I estimate that distance to be between 1 and 2 inches and I thought that should be a lot less - but as I don't have much experience at all with pedal playing THAT is my question: what should the distance be between your shoes and pedals in rest.
Ernst