cross-eyed pjayers

Bayawak

Bayawak

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I have a friend who is cross-eyed and he can shoot good pool!. He plays in the league and is ranked SL5. He is a solid player but I suspect that there are some players who resent his skill level.
Imagine you're playing this cross-eyed dude, and he is beating the crap out of you...:p
I'ts bad enough that you're losing but the guy that is beating you is cross-eyed! And you can hear the snickering comments of your team mates.:rolleyes::frown::(

Anyways, thoughts and comments, ladies and gentlemen!! And don't hold back on your responses':):thumbup:
 
I wouldn't be offended to get beat by someone who is cross-eyed or has a handicap, because they're taking care of business on the table. If they're able to run out when it matters then that's all that matters. I'll take a blind man's money if he could run out!


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I gave a pool lesson to a cross eyed woman that had struggled to make two balls in a row for a couple years. After her lesson, she practiced and lost the final in a 9 ball tournament that evening by scratching on her out point 9 ball. She beat quite a few people too.
Some don't get the alignment thing. Others can't seem to hit center ball. It takes time. Encouragement goes a long way with people struggling to learn. It's hard for them to see any improvement, so they need to be told they're playing better.
 
I wonder what the vision is really like...eyes are a little on the complex side, what with their relationship with the brain and all that.

If you close one eye and look at an object, you retain a sense of depth. If you leave an eye closed for a while (hours, days, weeks?), you see in 2d.

Maybe cross eye caballero can see just fine?
 
Rayford (Tangle-Eyes) Warrick.

Played Rayford a lot back in the early 70's in PanamaCity,Fl. Damn good player. First time I had played a person being crossed-eyed. Loved playing him. Boy could he tell stories, Believe he could have spotted Scotty Townsend in that category. Those expressions he could make. I still remember those. He loved talking while he shot and when you were shotting. Not trying to shark you, but that's the way he was. He always had people in stitches. Rayford (Tangle-Eyes) Warrick. What a character.
 
That would be a good hustle. Just sit around near the table and wait for somebody to ask you to play thinking they had an advantage.
 
alstl said:
That would be a good hustle. Just sit around near the table and wait for somebody to ask you to play thinking they had an advantage.
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If your vision was actuall good, then you are right. Hell, I'd be showing my face to people, why limit yourself to suckers that go looking for it?!

Now, if I d to play everyone 2d to 3D...that is gonna be harder. I don't imagine you'd lose about 20-50 % of your given speed, depending on how bullheaded you are.
 
Black-Balled said:
If your vision was actuall good, then you are right. Hell, I'd be showing my face to people, why limit yourself to suckers that go looking for it?!

Now, if I d to play everyone 2d to 3D...that is gonna be harder. I don't imagine you'd lose about 20-50 % of your given speed, depending on how bullheaded you are.
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I played a guy who was legally blind, he could not see the other end of the table on a Gold Crown. He was able to run some balls off though.

In 2001, I had double vision due to a tumor around the optic nerve. The left eye doesn't look crosseyed, but is useless for seeing anything directly in front of me. After about 3 or 4 weeks of wearing a patch, the center was blacked out by my brain, according to the Drs.

Definitely interferes with depth perception, so I have problems with shooting over a ball and close up shots. Have bumped the obstructing ball many times and have fouled due to hitting the cue ball.

Haven't heard any comments about opponents being frustrated about my occasional runout.
 
Good timing...

Oddly enough, I got knocked out of the montly BluFelt tour 9 ball tournament yesterday by a guy who was more cross-eyed then I've ever seen in my life.

He would have one eye locked on the object ball and the other seemed to be looking around the room. It was distracting, but that's my problem not his.

I also think at one point for a kick he was both looking at the spot on the rail and the object ball at the same time...

Anyway, this guy could run out - lost hill - hill - I have a lot of respect for that guy....

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I think the cross-eyed guy was just experimenting with a new aiming system called "Binocular Edge-to-Center Aiming".

Whatcha do is line each eye up with the edge of the object ball, then pivot your cue down the centerline, putting one of the visible cueballs in between the two cues you see.

This method works really well with 2 rail bank shots, but the math becomes tricky if you try to blend this with the diamond system, since you have to start taking square roots and stuff.

You should challenge him to a game of 2 Pocket, where this method is really put to the test.
 
I "fixed" my problem of one eye looking higher than the other. I did it through will power.

My ophthalmologist wouldn't do lasik on me until this problem was corrected, so he sent me to a cross-eyed specialist (I forget what he's called bis...something..). This doctor spent 3 hours with me and asked me about my pool playing. He said that pool was the best exercise that I could do to squelch the two eyes looking in different direction problem. He was a ping pong player and understood my problem very well. He even pretended to be playing pool and asked me if this is how I was shooting and then he talked more about how it helps.

So, play more, is my advice.

Oh, one more thing....that doctor said I'd lose that ability to overcome the problem when I reached 65 or so. I'm 63 now...yikes!


fwiw,

Jeff Livingston
 
Ya know, cross eyes might have an unfair advantage when playing pool. You know how people talk about " what are you looking at " when lining up a shot, are you looking at the pocket or the cue ball or the object ball etc... well they can look at both--- AT THEORY SAME TIME. NOT FAIR I TELL YA!!!!!
 
About a year ago I began seeing double. Needless to say my pool play took a nose dive.
I was diagnosed as having acquired Myasthenia Gravis, a neuro-muscular disease that attacks the signal from the nerve synapse to the muscle causing it (the muscle) to weaken. In the beginning the ocular muscles were affected most, so I was cross-eyed for quite awhile.
Medication and therapy (I was told to watch internet porn for three hours a day. The Neurologist said if anything could make the muscles straighten out, porn would. I still follow her instructions, just in case.) has helped tremendously.
My condition makes me appreciate the problems faced by those with vision problems, and the strength and determination necessary to overcome them. :cool:
 
Actually cross eyed player have an advantage, they can see the shot in all the angles! So don't feel bad if they beat you! They're supposed to!
 
A guy named Josh O'Neal from Tennessee is cross eyed and plays lights out.

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