Hi CJ,
I will jump on the opportunity to address you a question, hope you will not get bored with my long post and you will have patience until the end to get to the question
For years I struggled with my sighting, I even thought that my eyes have problems that don't allow me to play pool consistently...I had days when I was just "seeing" the shots and days when I could not play a straight in shot...
I only recently started to understand what was (and still is sometimes) happening and why I was so inconsistent...
I was changing my eyes position during the transition down from the standing address to getting down behind the cue ball...and this is so hard to notice for our amateur un-trained eyes, because our eyes have this great possibility of adapting the sight picture no matter how you look at the shot (with dominant eye right over the shot line or with the other line a bit on the shot line etc.). But getting the dominant eye out of his dominant position / out of the shot line is ruining the whole alignment to the shot in my opinion, without us (amateurs) even realizing...
After some time of working with systems like ProOne and SEE, I started to understand how the eyes (and mostly the dominant eye) should be placed when getting your visuals while standing above the balls - but the most important part and in my opinion the sercret to great pool is how to bend your body / eyes down during the transition from standing to getting down behind the "CORRECT" cue ball...
Our torso can bend down in so many directions, and this is the main reason why us amateurs can not get consistent in my opinion - we are not approaching the shots consistently, not getting down correctly behind the cue ball...because it's not easy at all - all the instructors say get straight down, lock your chin, keep your eyes on the same vertical plane etc. - well it's not so easy...at least for me...because our 2 eyes see 2 different images that they are able to blend in 1 picture, it's hard to focus on the right "picture" / direction, the one seen by the dominant eye...
For me the way to learn how to get down right can only be seen if, after acquiring my visuals while standing, I close my non-dominant eye so that I cann see what my dominant eye sights - the direction towards the cue ball - and then I open the other eye and get down on that right line - though with both eyes open that direction looks so strange...but only until I'm down behind the cue ball and I no longer see a blurred / un-clear image like I used to when my eyes were not placed right, but a clear one and the shot just looks right and I feel I can not miss it...
It took me 1 year to understand Stan Shuffett's left and right pivots in Pro One...in his instructional video he was just saying for a left pivot move your eyes left of the center to edge line, for a right pivot move your eyes right of the center to edge line and place your tip in the center of the cue ball once your eyes pick center cue ball...well how much left and how much right should I move my eyes LOL How to guide yourself?? I think the answer lies in the way our dominant eyes sees different shots, different angles - I noticed that if when bending down I follow the direction seen by my dominant eye I indeed move my eyes either right or left of the center to edge sight line, exactly as Stan described...
Sorry for all the rambling but I wanted to have a clear description of what is happening, to me at least.
And now the question to you
How do you lower your body down behind the cue ball? Where do you look, what are you focusing on when you start your transition down / during the time you bend your torso and just before you place your bridge hand behind the cue ball (another crucial moment in my opinion - placing your bridge is the most over-looked aspect of consistent pool imho).
Thank you for your input CJ, I am really curious to see what a pro like yourself "SEES" from the moment he acquires his visuals until he is down at cue ball address and ready to shot...I have your Ultimate Pool Secrets DVD which contains tons of great info, much of it is unique, not seen in any other instructional video I've watched, but it did not contain the answer to my question