Instructors dont forget this

bbb said:

if you have students with vision center issues
(like me)
PLEASE ASK THEM TO HAVE A EYE EXAM
i have struggled for years with straight ins which never looked straight to me
anyway lets fast forward
my house pro
mark coats
had been urging me to see an eye doctor
i didnt think i had to since i can read the newspaper without glasses
and knew my left eye was stronger than my right eye
i put him off for years
finally i said "what the hell " lets get an eye exam
well i saw an optometrist
telling him in real life i am fine but want glasses for pool because the balls are fuzzy
he found out i have an astigmatism in my right eye causing me to have double vision
after a lengthy exam i got a prescription
i sent them to bill curran
who specializes in billiard glasses
http://www.williamcurranopticians.com/billiard-eyeglasses.html
excellent customer service
received my glasses and i am at least 2 balls better than i was...:smile:
staight in look straight and i dont fear them
i am pocketing balls better than ever...:smile:
i still have speed control and cue ball control issues
but its like i have been born again on the pool table
so dont forget to think about whether an eye exam might help your students as much as stroke drills
jmho

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Happy to hear the good news Larry.
I'll be looking forward to reading some of your break and run story's.

John

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Larry,

Call me crazy, but I'm pretty sure that I suggested that you get your eyes checked about 3 years ago. lol ... I don't know if you remember that or not - but I'm glad that you finally got it done!

Well, I think the whole 'vision center' thing is a seriously flawed system, but thanks for the reminder about the eye exam. Good one!

It's a lot less "flawed" than the BS about "you must put the cue under your dominant eye to play at a high level". Knowing where your cue lines up under your face, when you perceive a straight line, is quite important, imo. More important, though, is the ability to deliver the cue into the straight line that your eyes and brain perceive.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

FranCrimi said:

Well, I think the whole 'vision center' thing is a seriously flawed system, but thanks for the reminder about the eye exam. Good one!

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Scott Lee said:

It's a lot less "flawed" than the BS about "you must put the cue under your dominant eye to play at a high level". Knowing where your cue lines up under your face, when you perceive a straight line, is quite important, imo. More important, though, is the ability to deliver the cue into the straight line that your eyes and brain perceive.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

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The isn't for you, Scott. This is for other posters:

Your dominant eye doesn't necessarily give you the perfect aim line you may be looking for, but it will always process the information it sees first, therefore, trying to ignore it is futile. Players will find that their cue will always want to drift to under their dominant eye. Therefore they are better served to learn what the dominant eye actually sees and adjust their aim accordingly.

...and this is for YOU Fran...The dominant eye receives visual information 10/1000ths of a second before the submissive eye...far too short a time to make much of a difference. The eyes work together. When the sight line moves past 'hands reach', or about 30", the eyes triangulate. We have binocular vision.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

FranCrimi said:

The isn't for you, Scott. This is for other posters:

Your dominant eye doesn't necessarily give you the perfect aim line you may be looking for, but it will always process the information it sees first, therefore, trying to ignore it is futile. Players will find that their cue will always want to drift to under their dominant eye. Therefore they are better served to learn what the dominant eye actually sees and adjust their aim accordingly.

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Hmm how does the dominant eye receives visual information faster than the other eye?


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In real talk, it's called the Master Eye. Example: When we try to pick up a pen that is right in front of us, the Master Eye gets the image and distance faster than the other eye. Faster than a blink.

About at a arms length the eyes triangulate and we have just one image.

You can or don't have to "aim" in pool with your Master Eye. Usually good players use both eyes to aim with.

randyg

oshua86 said:

Hmm how does the dominant eye receives visual information faster than the other eye?


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Hmm... there are nerves that go back from your eyes to your brain that transmit the information of sight. Some nerves go straight back to the brain and some criss-cross. The nerves that go straight back transmit the information faster than the nerves that are crossed. If one eye has significantly more nerves that go straight back to the brain than the other eye, it will transmit what it sees faster and is considered to be the dominant eye.

People have dominant eyes of varying strength, depending on the configuration of the nerves. Thus, with some players with strong dominant eyes, the transfer of sight to the brain by the dominant eye is significant, right or wrong, and shouldn't be ignored. Don't confuse vision accuracy with eye dominance. Unfortunately for some, their dominant eye may be the eye with the worst vision.

That is the definition of a physically dominant eye. If you try to research it online you may find yourself a bit confused, because the term 'eye dominance' has been given varying definitions. You'll see discussions of people saying that eye dominance changes, depending on distance, etc. and that you can change your dominant eye through training.

Unless you miraculously change the configuration of all the nerves from the eye to the brain, your dominant eye will still be the same one you started out with.

Larry...I want to apologize for hijacking your thread. It's great that you found out that you can fix your vision, with as easy thing as glasses, and by way of that, improve everything else you do at the table! I will certainly consider that for students who seem to struggle with their vision. :thumbup:

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

bbb...thanks for the optician review. I will see Bill personally in the Spring when I'm in Pa.