I keep asking this question and no one ever answers. Who actually sees the line better with their cue under their recessive eye? Anyone here??
Now, that's barring any eye pathology. For example: Someone may be nearly blind in their dominant eye and therefore must put the cue under their recessive eye.
And here's some more food for thought for all you stubborn 'vision center' followers: No matter how much you try to train it otherwise, your body will always try to naturally place the cue under your dominant eye. You can try to change it as much as you want, but it will start to drift back eventually. Also, you will be working harder and tire faster by placing the cue anywhere else because you are fighting your natural physiology.
However, what you CAN adjust is where under the dominant eye you place the cue.
Stop trying to fight what's natural and learn to adapt.
Hi Fran. I've enjoyed your posts over the years and still remember much of what you showed me in the one lesson I took from you years ago. Unfortunately it is not easy for me to make it into the city that often.
I wanted to say that I have been working diligently on straightening out my stroke at all speed levels and am glad to say I'm about there now. So the comments I make here are not uninformed on my part nor are they meant to be controversial. It just is what it is.
I shoot left-handed and am left eye dominant. My "default" eye position is having the cue under the inside corner of the left eye. After years of experimenting, I have found that my best results come from positioning the cue under my non-dominant right eye. I have no eye issues causing that. In fact my left eye is stronger, naturally. I did have LASIK about 5 years ago, so I'm pretty good with both eyes now.
Without writing a novel, let me just say that when I get down on a shot without thinking about what I am doing, and when the shot looks right, the video camera staring back at me shows that I now naturally put the cue under my non-dominant eye (inside corner).
I guess one of my mantras based on this "research" is that just because your dominant eye is over the cue, that does not mean you can achieve a straight stroke from that head position. I would even hazard a guess that most people who think they have a straight stroke, do not in reality. To me, a stroke is straight when it still looks straight under slow motion video. Some have commented that I overdo the straight stroke thing, but I have proven with some simple test shots that very small stroke errors do have negative consequences.
