BlueRaider
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I'm left-handed, right-eye dominant. My vision center (tested) is on the inside of my right eye.
After a few years of playing, I trained myself to stand behind shots favoring my grip hand (left side) to more easily step into shots and pivot my back foot along the shot line. As a result, I had a tendency to miss shots, especially straight-ins or almost straight-ins, to the right, as I flat-out wasn't seeing them properly. Improving my fundamentals across the board reduced this issue, but it still pops up from time to time.
When I stand more to the left to get my vision center on the shot line, I see the shot line more accurately, but my back foot will then be WAY past the shot line. From this stance, doing Jerry Briesath's "chin lock" and following Mark Wilson's advice of having the shot line run in front of or along my toes on my back foot is almost impossible.
It seems like I can either choose to get my eyes properly aligned with the shot or my body/grip hand, but never both. To get my back foot on the shot line from my vision-centered stance, I have to bring it really far in and to the right, which takes my head off the shot line, then I have to twist my body while stepping forward. At that point I've completely lost that laser-lock on the object ball with my eyes because my head moved to the right while getting my body into position.
Another interesting conundrum is that seeing the shot accurately while standing (and therefore when down on the table) means I don't perceive center ball correctly, presumably because my grip hand is off-kilter, but getting my stance right means finding center ball is obvious, but then I won't see the shot correctly.
Not sure where to go from here. Would I be better off adopting an already sideways stance at address (i.e., back foot on the shot line, head on the shot line, but body turned almost parallel with the shot line) before getting into my stance? Right now I stand completely square to the shot to size it up.
Any ideas or advice is welcome. Thanks!
After a few years of playing, I trained myself to stand behind shots favoring my grip hand (left side) to more easily step into shots and pivot my back foot along the shot line. As a result, I had a tendency to miss shots, especially straight-ins or almost straight-ins, to the right, as I flat-out wasn't seeing them properly. Improving my fundamentals across the board reduced this issue, but it still pops up from time to time.
When I stand more to the left to get my vision center on the shot line, I see the shot line more accurately, but my back foot will then be WAY past the shot line. From this stance, doing Jerry Briesath's "chin lock" and following Mark Wilson's advice of having the shot line run in front of or along my toes on my back foot is almost impossible.
It seems like I can either choose to get my eyes properly aligned with the shot or my body/grip hand, but never both. To get my back foot on the shot line from my vision-centered stance, I have to bring it really far in and to the right, which takes my head off the shot line, then I have to twist my body while stepping forward. At that point I've completely lost that laser-lock on the object ball with my eyes because my head moved to the right while getting my body into position.
Another interesting conundrum is that seeing the shot accurately while standing (and therefore when down on the table) means I don't perceive center ball correctly, presumably because my grip hand is off-kilter, but getting my stance right means finding center ball is obvious, but then I won't see the shot correctly.
Not sure where to go from here. Would I be better off adopting an already sideways stance at address (i.e., back foot on the shot line, head on the shot line, but body turned almost parallel with the shot line) before getting into my stance? Right now I stand completely square to the shot to size it up.
Any ideas or advice is welcome. Thanks!