Set up a straight in shot.
Hi there bubba,
Aim a straight in shot the way you normally do. While you are down there try to move your eyes one way or the other.
For instance, lets say you think you are right eye dominant. While you are down there aiming try to move your head to the left. If you cannot because you lose the vision of the shot right away you are right eye dominant. If you lose the vision of the shot right away when you move to the right you are left eye dominant. Now here's the kicker.
Now get down on the straight in shot the same way as you normally do and move your head about an inch to the right. This will allow you to put your left eye in the dominant position as if you were left eye dominant. You wouldn't want to shoot like this because it looks kind of cockeyed. Kind of like when you get down and the shot doesn't look quite right.
Now move back and forth to make sure which eye looks looks the best. Once you have seen both of these looks you can now make the decision for yourself which eye is your dominant eye when you shoot pool.
I have ran many players through this even over the phone. While on the road I have found many players that had the dominant eye wrong. Unless you know this you cannot keep the dominant eye in the dominant position because you don't know which direction to adjust.
I've found that at least 40% of the players I have checked thought they were the wrong eye dominant when it came to shooting a pool shot. These players passed every eye dominance test that said their one eye was dominant when in reality they were the other when they got down on a pool shot.
In the preshot routine you can also make the right eye dominant or the left eye dominant. This is another reason to know which eye is dominant so you don't have your nondominant eye working as the dominant eye in the preshot and then switch on the way down getting the dominant eye where it belongs. You need the right picture above and below.
And here's the problem. Standing up in the preshot the shot looks good whether you are looking at it with your dominant eye in the dominant position or the non dominant eye in the dominant position. And the further away you get the eyes kind of work like one.
Of course you can just line up so it looks good and and fire and do pretty good. But when the dominant eye is kept in the dominant position the improvement will be very impressive. Players that have seemed to be stuck at a certain level for a long time take a dramatic jump in their game once they master keeping the dominant eye dominant.
This will tell you without a shadow of a doubt which eye is your true pool shooting dominant eye.
It is the way it is................Anyone has trouble following this they can call me and I will walk them through this self test. Once you learn this you can help others figure it out. 715-563-8712
And that's no bull..................
This has been tried and true with hundreds of students so far over 2 years and I have yet to fail finding a persons dominant eye. Sometimes not right away with my old methods but with the new method I described here it has been pretty quick and definitive.
Hi there bubba,
Aim a straight in shot the way you normally do. While you are down there try to move your eyes one way or the other.
For instance, lets say you think you are right eye dominant. While you are down there aiming try to move your head to the left. If you cannot because you lose the vision of the shot right away you are right eye dominant. If you lose the vision of the shot right away when you move to the right you are left eye dominant. Now here's the kicker.
Now get down on the straight in shot the same way as you normally do and move your head about an inch to the right. This will allow you to put your left eye in the dominant position as if you were left eye dominant. You wouldn't want to shoot like this because it looks kind of cockeyed. Kind of like when you get down and the shot doesn't look quite right.
Now move back and forth to make sure which eye looks looks the best. Once you have seen both of these looks you can now make the decision for yourself which eye is your dominant eye when you shoot pool.
I have ran many players through this even over the phone. While on the road I have found many players that had the dominant eye wrong. Unless you know this you cannot keep the dominant eye in the dominant position because you don't know which direction to adjust.
I've found that at least 40% of the players I have checked thought they were the wrong eye dominant when it came to shooting a pool shot. These players passed every eye dominance test that said their one eye was dominant when in reality they were the other when they got down on a pool shot.
In the preshot routine you can also make the right eye dominant or the left eye dominant. This is another reason to know which eye is dominant so you don't have your nondominant eye working as the dominant eye in the preshot and then switch on the way down getting the dominant eye where it belongs. You need the right picture above and below.
And here's the problem. Standing up in the preshot the shot looks good whether you are looking at it with your dominant eye in the dominant position or the non dominant eye in the dominant position. And the further away you get the eyes kind of work like one.
Of course you can just line up so it looks good and and fire and do pretty good. But when the dominant eye is kept in the dominant position the improvement will be very impressive. Players that have seemed to be stuck at a certain level for a long time take a dramatic jump in their game once they master keeping the dominant eye dominant.
This will tell you without a shadow of a doubt which eye is your true pool shooting dominant eye.
It is the way it is................Anyone has trouble following this they can call me and I will walk them through this self test. Once you learn this you can help others figure it out. 715-563-8712
And that's no bull..................
This has been tried and true with hundreds of students so far over 2 years and I have yet to fail finding a persons dominant eye. Sometimes not right away with my old methods but with the new method I described here it has been pretty quick and definitive.
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