Please help me compile a list of cross eye dominant pros. I'm trying to analyze how many of them are able to keep their back arm/forearm completely vertical when they stroke.
Compiling a List of Cross Eye Dominant Pros
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Here’s a start:
Jayson Shaw
Albin Ouschan
Buddy Hall
Alex Pagulayan
Cisero Murphy
Mark Selby
Judd trump
Neil Robertson
Ronnie O’Sullivan
Willie Mosconi
Every time I go to an event, nearly half of the pros are cross-dominant.
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Albin Ouschan is quite noticeably cross-dominant as well.
I added him!!!
There are a lot. Was it you I said to that it was like 80%? Lol!!
John Morra. He keeps the cue in same place under left eye whether he is shooting right handed or left handed. So I guess you could say he was cross dominant but now he isn't?
Lets start with those who are pretty noticeable... One of the greatest and most successful player in Europe who in his 50 is still competetive to say at least...Ralph Souquet. Then we have world champion 2017 in 9-ball Albin Ouschan... Wu Jiaqing who has so powerful stroke. John Morra was but he had to switch hands and now plays left handed. Out of mentioned great players with exception to John Morra all the others have their shoulder slightly closer to the body and that seems to work well for them. There are really many cross eye dominant pros. A friend of mine and in my opinion the best player in my country Artem Koshovyi is also one of them and he is really great natural talent.
Yeah, you said that to me at the Derby. Or was it Anthony Manning?
Wait a second. How do you know? You certainly can’t tell by watching them play.
You can't see their eye dominance, but you can see where their cue crosses under their eyes. This is presumably what OP meant.
It means that someone who is right-handed is also left-eye dominant or vice versa. But I think there’s some misunderstanding, because there’s no way to tell eye dominance by watching. Maybe people are talking about which eye they hold their cue under, but who knows if that means they’re dominant with that eye.
John Morra has played with his cue way over towards his left eye, but I believe I saw an interview where he said he was right eye dominant, but just preferred to play with the cue under his left eye. (And of course now he plays with his left hand.)
I mentioned this maybe a year or so ago, but I thought it was interesting and I'll mention it again.
I had some old billiard digest magazines that I kept since I purchased them don't even know how many years ago they went but probably in the 80s.
There was an article in one of those magazines that talked about the advantages of cross eye dominance. The primary advantage mentioned in that article was that in your stance, your dominant eye leads your body as you are turned on a slight angle when you address the table in your shooting stance.
I had some old billiard digest magazines that I kept since I purchased them don't even know how many years ago they went but probably in the 80s.
There was an article in one of those magazines that talked about the advantages of cross eye dominance. The primary advantage mentioned in that article was that in your stance, your dominant eye leads your body as you are turned on a slight angle when you address the table in your shooting stance.
Yep. Been saying this for years....
As already said, “cross-dominance” may not be the appropriate term, but I’m assuming the OP was specifically talking about holding the cue under the opposite eye, especially since the question was specific to stance and arm orientation.
Freddie <~~~ just like them champeens
A right -handed batter leads with the left eye. So the left must must be more engaged (it a actually becomes dominant in that position). I can see the advantage if a player was already cross-dominant.
A poolplayer doesn’t lead nearly as much with the opposite eye, but I think the analysis is similar.
Freddie <~~~ we’ll see this question again in a few years
I think Louie Ulrich is/was cross dominant, although I'm not sure if he's still competing.
FYI just because they are aiming that way doesn't mean they are cross eye dominant , I was aiming that way for yrs never knew it till it was pointed out to me by Scott Lee ,
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