Nice to hear from you mr randy....
Hey Geno... What Mike says below will help you...help others. This little add on tool (from Mike Massey's DVD- get it) will help your students SEE what is really going on when the cue tip touches the CB off center to the shot line.. You are right about the cross dominate eye being an issue (like myself/john morra etc).
Mike Massey touches on the CCB issue in his DVD but really doesn't go into great detail like both you and Dr Dave does... this little plastic cap (the more rounded one) on your cue will not allow your tip- chalk combination to compensate for the "miss hit" attempts at CCB.
Also get the person (student) to see this phenomenon in 3rd person is Key... Use their own cell phone to image them shooting down the shot line ...Use like a 2 ball combination the over half the table length where the 2 OB's are 1 to 2 diamonds apart on one end of the table and the CB is on the other end say at the head string- All in a straight line. Get 'in line' at the opposite end of the table with their cell phone recording and have them address CCB with their tip straight both COB's and CCB. If you really want to show them what they are doing put on the rounded tip cover from Mike Massey's DVD an record them shooting the shot. If they can hit the CCB online the last OB will rebound into the front OB. Do this 5X (with the tip cover) and your 'CCB alignment issue' will immediately point itself out in the 'first person's vision center prospective'.
Thanks to Mike Massey as well for this great little tool...:thumbup:
Randy
You were right on the medical.
Surgery on one knee, total knee replacement on the other and a tumor the size of a tennis ball on my thyroid. Didn't find it until I couldn't eat, sleep or breath hardly, all done within 6 months. Almost wore out my life battery on these. Too many surgeries, too close together.
Just starting to play great again. It's been about a year since the last surgery.
Won the Friday sat and sunday weekly tournaments here in the cities. Got one tonight and wed. if I win those it will be a clean sweep. Havn't done that in months.
Part of this has to do with feeling so much better but a huge part if figuring out adjusting the dominant eye even more plus making a conscious effort to get my cue to the middle. Equally important is for me to get the eye over far enough to the right when I need to get right English. Now the cue ball goes right where I want with right English and I don't have to try and blame it on something else.
Been working on this for awhile but just started coming up with the solution. Think we got it nailed. Just when I think I'm done with these eyes there's another piece of the puzzle jumps right up and bites me.
I really needed to get that eye in the most dominant position when cutting a ball to the left using right English. When I do the cue ball just gets where I want it to go. I never would have thought that I was lined up off center.
Out of 30 some players that I have worked with so far in the Minneapolis area almost all of them didn't even know that they were not in the center of the cue ball even on the straight in shot.
The real cure for this is understanding Perfect Aim and kind of over applying it when cutting to the left with right English.
Hope your playing well. Give me a call and I'd like to share this with you.
See ya on the road again somewhere in the near future.
715-563-8712. Looking forward to hearing from you.