As anyone tried Yesglasses Masters
- Thread starter bobbydee
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When you see your optometrist, ask him for a billiards prescription. It is a combination of a reading and distance prescription formulas. If you need glasses for reading, he’d be weakening that prescription. If you also needed eyewear for distance viewing, the optometrist would simply strengthen that prescription. My optometrist placed objects 3ft and 12 feet away from me during my examination. He used a portable lense headwear that lets him switch different strength lenses and I’d let him know which was the clearest vision. Since I usually play on a 9’ table, 12’ was ideal as the longest focal distance I wanted improved vision for playing pool. It took about 20 mins.but I left with 3 eyewear prescriptions.
Reading, distance and billiards were the prescriptions I used for years until I had cataract surgery and now I don’t need
any glasses to read, drive or play pool. No glasses is better than any but a custom prescription that you can get checked and tweaked if necessary is the best way to proceed. And then you get to go to Lens Crafters or any eyewear store and pick out your own cool looking frames. My favorites were Maui Jim, Ray Ban and Oakley sunglasses.This approach let’s you pick a frame with some style and appeal plus you get a local physician to change your prescription as needed. Rest assured, as you get older, your vision worsens and doesn’t improve without surgery so you will need to update your prescription that’s checked & verified for vision change during your regularly scheduled eye examinations.
Reading, distance and billiards were the prescriptions I used for years until I had cataract surgery and now I don’t need
any glasses to read, drive or play pool. No glasses is better than any but a custom prescription that you can get checked and tweaked if necessary is the best way to proceed. And then you get to go to Lens Crafters or any eyewear store and pick out your own cool looking frames. My favorites were Maui Jim, Ray Ban and Oakley sunglasses.This approach let’s you pick a frame with some style and appeal plus you get a local physician to change your prescription as needed. Rest assured, as you get older, your vision worsens and doesn’t improve without surgery so you will need to update your prescription that’s checked & verified for vision change during your regularly scheduled eye examinations.
The Old Jaybird
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I've had 2 pairs of sports glasses made for me over the years, in the mid 70s for shooting skeet and the mid 90s for shooting pool. very similar, in fact if I could have located the skeet pair they would have work fine for pool, with maybe a Rx change. Basically they sit higher on your face to allow you to look out of the top of the lens easier.
I'm an upper level E player. I cheap out on booze and women.... not eyewear.
My first billiard glasses were converted Ray Ban pilot frames.
Thanks for all of that info!
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I've gone with a 10' Single vision focal point for 30 yrs.
I recently Changed to 8'.
Why?
Found myself not liking 10'..... when balls were close together,
Wanted better close up vision, often you have to feather cut a ball.
Helps with that allot.
I recently Changed to 8'.
Why?
Found myself not liking 10'..... when balls were close together,
Wanted better close up vision, often you have to feather cut a ball.
Helps with that allot.