George the Greek
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Anybody have any experience trying to switch your dominant eye?
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Blink method is a good one.
Just finished my lunch pool session, was using the blink method.
On shots, where OB goes left, i use left track line (CB) to connect to the ghost ball position. On this shoots my left eye is dominant ( as it better sees the line i guess), but on the shots where OB goes to the right, i use the right CB track line to connect to ghost ball, and right eye becomes dominant.
With direct shots, i need to pick which eye before going into the shot.
Any of you tried the blink method on left and right cuts?
What is your experience?
I was seriously into outdoor photography a couple decades ago. I noticed the wading birds moving their heads side to side before striking, particularly when striking deep underwater. Mostly playing around I tried this at the pool hall. It gives a little bit more than a 180 degree view of the object ball and I think makes depth perception a tiny bit more accurate. It does work!
Aiming systems being all the rage at the time I labeled this method the chicken method of aiming as a joke on here. I had somebody come up to me several years later and thank me for revealing that technique, he still used it!
Hu
Thanks for all the input! I'm not sure where I left off, but I did in fact try the partial patches, but could not make them work for me. What I have ended up doing is just look in particular for the clearer of the two images as I line up a shot, because the clearer one is my right eye, to make sure my right eye is involved.
I have a friend who has always shot pool with glasses and also always has had that rocking the head motion during his warmup strokes -- I might try that -- at least in practice to see if it helps find the center line better.
I have a friend who has always shot pool with glasses and also always has had that rocking the head motion during his warmup strokes -- I might try that -- at least in practice to see if it helps find the center line better.
Just for clarity, when doing that I don't rock my head side to side, I keep it level so the eyes stay in the same orientation to the shot.
Hu
Thank you my friend. From the answers on this thread I am the only one that understands.
Hi Steve. 80% of players a cross dominant. 20% same eye dominant. You can take this info I'm giving you, put it in the bank and collect interest.
I taught the eye dominant test for awhile until I went on the road for 5 years teaching. It doesn't work for everyone. 35% says right 35% says left and 20% goes back and forth.
I now teach a way on the pool table which will tell the player and myself which eye is dominant immediately. And they can see it is right for sure.
Being left eye dominant, you are not capable of going out under the left eye like a gun. It would feel like you are going too far and your normal eye dominance would keep interfering.
BUT, you can go way out under the right eye like a gun. This is how most players that have the stick directly under one eye are doing this. The other eye is dominant still but far enough away to keep that gun aiming look for the shot.
This is not easy to do but it can be learned.
This is something I have learned to do myself and have taught many others with great success. To most on here none of what I said makes any sense. And I get it.
One a person know exactly how the dominant eye works can apply this method very quickly and some even shoot better.
Coming under that one eye like a gun eliminates the need to get the dominant eye in the most dominant correct position and it eliminates the problem of not getting equal right and left English, depending on which eye is dominant. THE SHIFT I teach to correct this problem.
Everything I said here is 100% correct and if a player has a copy of this post they would say after the lesson. He is right. 100%
I'm just starting to do lessons again. Most of them I do over the internet. Skype or Facetime works well.
You need a tripod, hookup for the phone. Ear buds. painters tape. little white circles(paper enforcers) Black magic marker and black electricians tape.
I have you on the big screen so you look as big as me. Instruct where to move the tripod for different parts of the lesson so I can see exactly what is going on.
You will also learn how your natural dominant eye works so if you every reverse what is happening to the dominant eye you can get right back in the saddle but even better next time.
You can plan on a good 5 hours of work. Makes no difference if you are at home or in a poolhall. ear buds make the hearing part real good.
I only charge $400 for the complete Perfect Aim lesson with the SHIFT and in your case, shooting out under the right eye like a gun. 5 hours jam packed with so much stuff you can't remember all of it. With Skype you can hit the record button and you have your own customized copy on what you learned.
Regardless what level your game is at I will show you how you can tweak things a little here and there to help keep the eyes correct from start to finish. The 100% correct fundamentals and there is many things that have to be done in the best way possible.
If you are not totally thrilled about what you learn you pay nothing and I will go one step more.
If you are not happy with what you learned I will send you $400!!! Yes you heard me correct. I will pay you.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain.
Just give me a call 715-563-8712 and I will get you set up with a time that will work for you.
Looking forward to helping you Steve. Call me anytime. Had my left knee replaced April 8th. Still can't walk good or much. But I can teach up a STORM.
Lets create a hurricane with your game my friend.