Dominant Eye-another view

sfleinen said:
Matt, you COMPLETELY missed my point. I cited the age of the article not because the age itself is a problem, but rather because that article has had many years of "air time" here on the forums, if you'll just look. That latter part -- the "air time" was the point I was trying to get across, if you would've just taken a bit more time and care in actually reading the full context of the paragraph wrapped around it, instead of zeroing on on the fact that I pointed out it was 17 years old. 17 years of existence has a habit of making the article pop up over those course of years, and *of course* it's going to get discussed in detail. Your bringing that old article to the table as some new revelation was being replied to, when in fact that article had been discussed ad-infinitum was my point.

You need to be more careful in how you read people's responses here. And this point is cemented by Exhibit A -- your method of "Ginsu-chopping" my response into little sentence fragments that you zero your crosshairs on and blast away at in serial fashion.

Please read and understand the *context* of what people are trying to say, instead of blasting away at certain sentence fragments.

BTW, for ease of getting your points across, you might be interested in learning how to use the "QUOTE" tags -- either by "stealing" the "QUOTE" tags in the quoted text you're replying to (i.e. copy/pasting them elsewhere in the quote text to break it up into sections), or else using the "QUOTE" button in the menubar at the top of every Reply to Thread form (this menubar sits on top of the text box itself -- just float your mouse cursor over each one and wait a second for the tooltips bubble to appear).

The double-square-bracket, while I was able to understand what you were trying to do, is definitely a non-conventional way of quoting text that you're replying to. Even in publishing circles (which I'm a member of), I've not seen the double-square-bracket method used.



Agreed. BTW, you'll notice that in my initial post to you and Pat, that I was very respectful, but in subsequent replies I responded in kind as you went on a defense and certifications/affiliations display to what you perceived as a slight to your About.com readership. I think what you're seeing here is that you'll get as good as you give -- from multiple angles, no less. Forums have an uncanny way of mirroring back behaviors projected out. In a way, it's behavior that's auto-correcting; if the writer/poster truly cares about he/she is perceived (as you do), the ship rights itself eventually.

Handshake gladly offered and accepted,
-Sean
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you might be interested in learning how to use the "QUOTE" tags
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Cool! The [[ ]] is an old convention (really old, as these things go) for e-mail.

I get what you're saying completely and I appreciate your assistance. Thanks!
 
BilliardsAbout said:
Cool! The [[ ]] is an old convention (really old, as these things go) for e-mail.
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Actually, I go back very far, Matt (I used to work for one of the companies that was a founding member of the original ARPAnet group), back in the days *before* SMTP email was even created. Back then, my email address used to be:

...uunet!ingr!jersey!sfleinen

(Yes, "bang-path" UUCP relay email.) Back then, the quoting tags were close-wocka (">") symbols prefacing each sentence of less than 80 characters each. Not double-square-brackets. I think I may've seen that once or twice in my whole 30 years of IT existence.

BilliardsAbout said:
I get what you're saying completely and I appreciate your assistance. Thanks!
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Great. Back on track with dominant eye! (However, I think at this point neither of my eyes are dominant, and they want to creep back into my skull for more sleep. :p

-Sean
 
Mirza said:
Thank you for your answer, but it isn't an answer to my question, I am familiar with all the posibilities of cue/eye placement and I do think it matters, but that is not what I was asking.

Thanks anyway..

Anyone else?!
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I'm right eye dominate according to my ophthalmologist, but Geno had me shooting left eye. That cured several shots that were giving me problems and helped with the other shots, too.

After shooting left eye, I did the test and it came out left eye dominant, as did yours. The next day, right eye dominated. I felt a little dyslexic almost.

I stuck to the left eye shooting and a teammate told me the other day that I'm shooting the best pool he's ever seen me shoot. I wasn't sure myself about the quality of pool, but I did know I was potting balls better and splitting the pocket more often.

Just as I was getting into all of this, I blew out my back last weekend vacuuming. I had changed my stance just a hair to do the left eye thingy and maybe I was using muscles I hadn't been using and that might have set me up for the injury, as our newest poster alluded to.

The lesson? Vacuum with the right eye dominant!:grin-square:

Maybe Geno will see this thread and help you (us). He's coming back to town in a few weeks. I'll ask him about these things and, if I remember, will come back here and let you know. He wants to be called, if you can do that from where you are, so you might try that and let me know.

Jeff Livingston
 
chefjeff said:
I'm right eye dominate according to my ophthalmologist, but Geno had me shooting left eye. That cured several shots that were giving me problems and helped with the other shots, too.

After shooting left eye, I did the test and it came out left eye dominant, as did yours. The next day, right eye dominated. I felt a little dyslexic almost.

I stuck to the left eye shooting and a teammate told me the other day that I'm shooting the best pool he's ever seen me shoot. I wasn't sure myself about the quality of pool, but I did know I was potting balls better and splitting the pocket more often.

Just as I was getting into all of this, I blew out my back last weekend vacuuming. I had changed my stance just a hair to do the left eye thingy and maybe I was using muscles I hadn't been using and that might have set me up for the injury, as our newest poster alluded to.

The lesson? Vacuum with the right eye dominant!:grin-square:

Maybe Geno will see this thread and help you (us). He's coming back to town in a few weeks. I'll ask him about these things and, if I remember, will come back here and let you know. He wants to be called, if you can do that from where you are, so you might try that and let me know.

Jeff Livingston
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Now that is something I wanted to hear :)
If you get some answers please tell, coz me calling him from Bosnia would be too expensive for me..

Thank you very much for your answer, you gave me hope!
 
AtLarge said:
Trying again:



If by "H.H." you mean Hal Houle, what's the basis for your statement? (He didn't tell me that.)
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Sorry, Mr. Houle taught multiple aim methods to multiple people as you know. CTE, pivot, etc. I use some of these amazing systems for certain shots and will discuss them on a thread someday...
 
BilliardsAbout said:
Sorry, Mr. Houle taught multiple aim methods to multiple people as you know. CTE, pivot, etc. I use some of these amazing systems for certain shots and will discuss them on a thread someday...
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once these guys stop trying to beat you into submission, i would like to hear what you have to say about cte. I strictly shoot stan shuffetts cte/pro1 and i also know a couple variations of cte.
 
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AtLarge said:
Yes, I do know that. But my question remains -- what is the basis for your claim that Hal Houle was teaching CTE 50 years ago?
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Chats with Mr. Houle about his methods and his comments - I don't know that he used that acronym and I may have translated him incorrectly. He was sometime enigmatic when we spoke as you can imagine!
 
BilliardsAbout said:
Chats with Mr. Houle about his methods and his comments - I don't know that he used that acronym and I may have translated him incorrectly. He was sometime enigmatic when we spoke as you can imagine!
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When I spoke with Hal which has been a few years ago I think he said he come up with it about 10 years ago I also think he said people where already doing something like this 40 to 50 years ago.(He said a lot of things).
Im not sure I ever got to finish any sentence when I was talking with him.
It was great talking with Hal, after about 30 minutes into our conversation I actually forgot why I called him.lol

(Btw I read your article ,I like it .Thanks)
 
BilliardsAbout said:
Chats with Mr. Houle about his methods and his comments - I don't know that he used that acronym and I may have translated him incorrectly. ...
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Well, then, you probably shouldn't make such a claim (that Hal was teaching CTE 50 years ago), right?
 
If you make one of these, you would realize the value of controlling your vision center.

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Thanks to PT109 for the picture.:smile:
 
chefjeff said:
How about mounting a camera, instead of a sight, on a cue?

Or mounting one on your hat? I think that could help.

Jeff Livingston
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Sarcasm noted.

I just thought that using one sighting line, it would take out the influence of the non dominant eye and or parallax.

Mounting a camera would be a good idea as well for it would capture if what you saw through the scope aligns with what you were aiming at.

Don't tilt the camera hat or wear it backward.
 
AtLarge said:
Well, then, you probably shouldn't make such a claim (that Hal was teaching CTE 50 years ago), right?
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I stand corrected with 8pack: "I also think he said people where already doing something like this 40 to 50 years ago." CTE is old.
 
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