Eye Dominance

Which are you?

  • Right Eye /Right Hand

    Votes: 44 40.0%

  • Right Eye/Left Hand

    Votes: 10 9.1%

  • Left Eye/ Left Hand

    Votes: 11 10.0%

  • Left Eye / Right Hand

    Votes: 40 36.4%

  • None of your business

    Votes: 5 4.5%
  • Total voters
    110
R

RShellhouse

AzB Silver Member
Silver Member
Ok....got a question...


How many here actually shoot the hand you are eye dominant.

Ok here is how to tell your dominant eye.....
•Extend both hands forward of your body and place the hands together making a small triangle (approximately 1/2 to 3/4 inch per side) between your thumbs and the first knuckle.
•With both eyes open, look through the triangle and center something such as a doorknob or the bullseye of a target in the triangle.
•Close your left eye. If the object remains in view, you are right eye dominant. If your hands appear to move off the object and move to the left, then you are left eye dominant.
•To validate the first test, look through the triangle and center the object again with both eyes open.
•Close your right eye. If the object remains in view, you are left eye dominant. If your hands appear to move off the object and move to the right, then you are right eye dominant.


Now do you shoot that hand?
 
im left handed right eyed....it kindof sucks for pool.
i use a left handed stick when playing pool.

i had to learn to shoot a gun or Bow or anything simular right handed because of eye dominance...

with a gun its natural shouldering and gripping righty for me ....with a bow i started lefty and switched after 2 or 3 months because i didnt want to shoot with a patch covering my right eye. it was hard swithching at first but was very natural after a few weeks (always keep both eyes open when shooting gun or bow)

but pool i shoot lefty still....it causes me to cock my head/line up a little differently than most .....sometimes i wish i would have learned to play righty at a young age....because sometimes i think it might cause an od miss if i dont line my head up right when reaching for a shot or something simular

but i usually am not bothered by it 99.9 percent of the time but sometimes i wonder about it.
anyone else opposite eye/hand id like to hear what they think
 
Last edited:
Scott Lee can you please weigh in on this thread?

We had a lengthy conversation about eye dominance in our lesson and you explained it to me so succinctly and I'd never be able to do your presentation justice.

To paraphrase Scott....yes what you're saying is true...but it doesn't matter because that "test" is only valid at arms length. When you're looking at the cue ball or object ball, you're outside the range of eye dominance.

<--- Hoping my memory is OK since I didn't put the DVD of our lesson back in to check.

Mattie
 
I am left eye dominant and I play with my left hand also. However! I do everything else righty including throwing, baseball, hockey, golf, writing, etc. I shoot using the rake with my right hand. Because I this, I am unable to shoot a dart style jump shot. I cant bridge with my left hand, I cant stroke with my right hand, I cant do anything overhand lefty. My Dad shoots pool the same way along with the other right handed options but I think he shoots with the rake with his left hand.

Figure that one out!
 
just some more infor for those interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocular_dominance

http://www.ez-shot-ghost-ball.com/dominant_eye.html

http://www.huntersfriend.com/eye-dominance-issues.htm

http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2006/nov/skillbuilder/

i think it does make a difference. its not a huge one thou.... my dad one day was shooting a Tough short jump shot....and he couldnt figure out why he kept missing it the same.....its because the way he was lighning up and eye dominance.... he would line up where he thought was right and i would stand back and look....he was lineing up 1/4 inch off every time....It does make a difference....ive noticed it effect me on shots where the cueball was really close to the object ball especially and when reaching for shots where your stance and balance is off in the first place and you just cant line up quite how you want. i will say that i dont have any problems cutting balls worse to the left vs. the right or the other way around...i think people like this it might jsut be operator error....or maybee ive programmed my brain to aim correctly both ways.

id say eye dominance has just as much merit in pool as Low Deflection shafts vs Standard ones.
 
Last edited:
There's no selection in the poll for pure binocular vision

randyg said:
I shoot with both eyes equal......SPF=randyg
Click to expand...

I second that. I shoot snooker style, facing square-shouldered into the shot, both feet pointing in-line with the shot, and my chin centered on the cue, both eyes viewing the shot equidistant from the center-line of the cue.

I find, for me, that this is the most repeatably consistent stance for its shot-view, as well as to get my arm in the perfect pendulum position for the stroke.

When I do the exercise described by the original poster, if I close one eye, I see 1/2 of the object with the other eye (the other half of the object is obscured by my hand). That is, if I close the left eye, my right eye sees the left 1/2 of the object (the other right-side 1/2 is obscured by my right hand). Vice-versa if I close the right eye. (And this makes sense when you think about it, when you consider each eye's viewing angle involved with that eye's offset to the centerline of the bridge of your nose. When viewing with pure binocular vision through that "hole" formed by the thumbs/first-knuckle of the two hands, the right eye's view is angled slightly towards the left through that "hole," while the left eye's view is angled slightly towards the right.)

To be honest, I am probably very slightly left-eye dominant (even though I'm a right-handed player), but the eye "dominance" -- if it is that -- only comes into play when, for example, immediately after I've eaten a meal, and I'm trying to read something, my eyes seem to be a bit out of focus, and I tend to favor the left eye to read the material. (I also tend to favor the left eye if I'm reading some very, VERY small type [fine print]. After a while of reading the fine print, though, my right eye then gradually adapts, and I can then read that fine print with both eyes. I guess my issue is that my right eye isn't as responsive, focusing-wise, as my left eye.)

Apologies for the long-winded answer, but hopefully there's helpful info above!
-Sean
 
Last edited:
it is possible to train your weak eye to get stronger...ive talked to people who have done it...it takes a long time and alot of focus thou
 
I'm right-handed and left-eyed. Without interference in a young age, I were probably left-handed.

Over the last year, I have trained to play left-handed whenever it suits the situation. I do still have serious aiming issues, but it gets better over time :-)

Best regards,

Detlev
 
Last edited:
Left eye, right handed

I am so glad that this poll came along when it did

I have new glasses, no more fuzzy puppies running around on the table,:)

currently trying out three different cues, right feel,feedback etc.:smile:

New Kamui 2 tip:cool:

I was damn near out of excuses and now I find out that if I had a football helmet on that I would be looking out the ear hole.:eek:

So how does this impact your aiming? Is there anything that you need to do to compensate or what?

I saw a picture of a guy,right handed and evidently left eye dominant because he had his neck stretched out to get his left eye over the cue.
I don`t think I want to try that:rolleyes:

How`s about a little input from some experts,please

Thanks in advance

fish
 
Opposite-eye-dominance is not a bad thing

scfishr said:
I am so glad that this poll came along when it did

I have new glasses, no more fuzzy puppies running around on the table,:)

currently trying out three different cues, right feel,feedback etc.:smile:

New Kamui 2 tip:cool:

I was damn near out of excuses and now I find out that if I had a football helmet on that I would be looking out the ear hole.:eek:

So how does this impact your aiming? Is there anything that you need to do to compensate or what?

I saw a picture of a guy,right handed and evidently left eye dominant because he had his neck stretched out to get his left eye over the cue.
I don`t think I want to try that:rolleyes:

How`s about a little input from some experts,please

Thanks in advance

fish
Click to expand...

Fish:

Actually, you're in good company! Take a gander at these pics (notice in each case, the head is extended further out to the right, to place the left eye over the cue:

Ray Martin:
http://azbilliards.com/gallery/showplayergallery.php?playernum=359

Billy Incardona:
http://azbilliards.com/gallery/showplayergallery.php?playernum=3692

Ralf Souquet:
http://azbilliards.com/gallery/showplayergallery.php?playernum=682

Opposite-eye-dominance is actually quite common, even (or especially) amongst the top players.

Hope this is helpful,
-Sean
 
I think the poll pretty much reflects the actual percentages in the general population: about 4/5 of the population are right handed, and about 2/3 are right eye dominant.

pj
chgo
 
Actually turning out to be a pretty interesting responses....i jsut recently found out I was left eye right handed....


R
 
eyes right

i'm right handed and right eyed like Strickland and Feijen - i wish i wasn't - in the middle of the last century there were 3 great players who were left eyed and right handed - 20 times world snooker champ Joe Davis,20 years N America snooker champ George Chenier and the great Willie Mosconi - to me they looked comfortable and balanced - i know a top player who is 20/20 who sometimes sees double - we feel a dominate eye is an advantage but opposite eye sighting makes you more centered - i think it is an advantage at golf also
 
Last edited:
RD3P said:
im left handed right eyed....it kindof sucks for pool.
i use a left handed stick when playing pool.

i had to learn to shoot a gun or Bow or anything simular right handed because of eye dominance...

with a gun its natural shouldering and gripping righty for me ....with a bow i started lefty and switched after 2 or 3 months because i didnt want to shoot with a patch covering my right eye. it was hard swithching at first but was very natural after a few weeks (always keep both eyes open when shooting gun or bow)

but pool i shoot lefty still....it causes me to cock my head/line up a little differently than most .....sometimes i wish i would have learned to play righty at a young age....because sometimes i think it might cause an od miss if i dont line my head up right when reaching for a shot or something simular

but i usually am not bothered by it 99.9 percent of the time but sometimes i wonder about it.
anyone else opposite eye/hand id like to hear what they think
Click to expand...

Hi there,

I'm left eye dominent and right handed. This is one of my fields that I excell in. It's actually makes no difference which eye or which hand. If you are right eye dominent on a straight shot your head will be further to the left. If you are left eye dominent your head will be further to the right. The spot will be different depending on how dominent your dominent eye is.

I have played in a few pro events lately and I have studied this. About 80% of the players are opposite eye to hand. This might be an advantage to being able to aim better naturally.

The difference of head position either way, right eye or left eye is only about an inch on the average. The real problem is learning exactly where to position the eyes on every shot.

If you are shooting a rifle and the sight is off an 8th of an inch you will be off 10 feet at 100 yards maybe. The same is true with aiming a pool shot.

You can get by on a bar table not having the eyes where they belong. When you try it on a nine footer it is instant disaster. A snooker table even worse.

I hope this helps you. Geno.......
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top