good visual for "quiet eyes" and focus

dr_dave said:
Here's a good visual to remember when you are trying to develop and maintain focus and quiet eyes when aiming and sighting in the set position and when focusing on your target with a still head during your stroke:

When you watch the video, stare at the bird's eyes!

Check it out,
Dave
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Dr. Dave:

Excellent! One thing that this little exercise will do, is highlight how sensitive one is to "want" to be distracted. That is, you find yourself (at least I did) "reminding" yourself to stare at the bird's eyes, stare at the bird's eyes, stare at the bird's eyes... And then, magically, that little part of you that wants to wander and look at other things in the video (other parts of the bird, what "else" is in the video, etc.), starts to dissipate, and you find yourself singularly focused on that bird homing in on you, experiencing the "hit."

Great find!
-Sean
 
sfleinen said:
Dr. Dave:

Excellent! One thing that this little exercise will do, is highlight how sensitive one is to "want" to be distracted. That is, you find yourself (at least I did) "reminding" yourself to stare at the bird's eyes, stare at the bird's eyes, stare at the bird's eyes... And then, magically, that little part of you that wants to wander and look at other things in the video (other parts of the bird, what "else" is in the video, etc.), starts to dissipate, and you find yourself singularly focused on that bird homing in on you, experiencing the "hit."

Great find!
-Sean
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I'm glad you liked it.

Isn't it funny (i.e., weird) that the first thing I thought of when I saw the video was pool? :smile-square:

Regards,
Dave
 
Ive been trying to translate what I see in the video to the pool table.


I think Ive got the eye thing down, but Ive been having a hell of time trying to grab the ball with both my feet. :p
 
dr_dave said:
I'm glad you liked it.

Isn't it funny (i.e., weird) that the first thing I thought of when I saw the video was pool? :smile-square:

Regards,
Dave
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Not weird at all. That "feeling in your stomach" you get when watching that bird home in on you, is the same feeling I get when I'm standing over the table, I see the shot, and I home in on it -- i.e. approaching the shot, stepping into the shot, getting down on the shot, firing it in. When I'm "in the zone" (e.g. a really good run in straight pool, when I'm oblivious to everything around me), that's the same feeling I have.

-Sean
 
berko said:
Ive been trying to translate what I see in the video to the pool table.


I think Ive got the eye thing down, but Ive been having a hell of time trying to grab the ball with both my feet. :p
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Funny :grin-square:

That's why I said watch the eyes. That's the kind of focus (and still head) we should all have at the pool table.

The bird is a good "visual" to remember to help you create similar concentration and focus.

Regards,
Dave
 
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Unless the owl is hitting a CB with his feet in order to knock-out his prey, I fail to see how this applies to pool. The owl keeps his eyes on the target (OB) the entire time. If you did that with pool, you'd never make a ball.

I mean, if we played pool like the owl and never used an intermediary target (such as th CB), none of us would ever miss a ball. We'd just keep our eye on the OB all the time and hit it straight into the hole. We'd all be as devastating at pool as the owl is at eating mice.

Make the owl hit something that hits the mouse and that mean ass looking bird is going to starve his ass off. In fact, after a few weeks, he might look like this:

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Loved it. I'm a big fan of quiet eyes. When I'm done looking back and forth from cue ball to object ball and begin to "quiet my eyes" on the object ball I will have the owl visual in my head.
 
SpiderWebComm said:
If your eyes were TOTALLY still, you couldn't make a ball grasshopper.
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If you don't keep your eyes and head still during the set position and during your stroke, you are very unlikely to be accurate and consistent. For more info, see the links in my original post.

Be the bird, grasshopper.

Just flap your wings while you pivot, and the ball will go in the hole, even if the hole is covered by a sheet. Just be careful to not drop poop on the sheet as you fly over. :scratchhead: :lmao:

Regards,
Dave
 
Luxury said:
Loved it. I'm a big fan of quiet eyes. When I'm done looking back and forth from cue ball to object ball and begin to "quiet my eyes" on the object ball I will have the owl visual in my head.
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That's the right idea. I hope "grasshopper" is listening. :cool:

Thanks,
Dave
 
cleary said:
I do agree, keeping your head still is very important.
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We don't seem to agree very often (e.g., in discussions concerning aiming), but I'm with you 100% on this one ... and so is the bird. ;)

Regards,
Dave
 
dr_dave said:
If you don't keep your eyes and head still during the set position and during your stroke, you are very unlikely to be accurate and consistent. For more info, see the links in my original post.

Be the bird, grasshopper.

Just flap your wings while you pivot, and the ball will go in the hole, even if the hole is covered by a sheet. Just be careful to not drop poop on the sheet as you fly over. :scratchhead: :lmao:

Regards,
Dave
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Like I said--- the video has nothing to do with what you describe. Cute video though. Unless you're telling someone to lock their eyes from the standing position until the time they hit the ball (like the owl), it has nothing to do with the video. Your eyes have to move throughout the process --- the owl's never do, apparently.

I do agree, however, that minimal movement is best.

Nice of you to resort to personal attacks - I was keeping my comments based on your original post. If I wanted to insult you back, I'd prob say something about the plagiarism on your site and how it's amazing that people pay attention to you when you're a D-player who can't draw his rock. I won't though, because I'm above that. ;) <---(I learned that move from Lou)
 
For what its worth, "can't draw the rock" I believe is more or less just a saying for "can't play".
 
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