Dominant eye?
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Dominate eye is not bs
There is science to it
Dr. Dave has excellent resources on vision center. The vision center over the shot line sometimes aligns with the dominant eye, but for most players, it does not.
I began playing pool in 1960. I observed from photographs at that time that nearly all the players of that classic period were opposite handed to their dominant eye. (Right handed but left eye dominant.) I was that way myself. I actually thought that this was the “correct” way to play pool. Of course the cue wasn’t under the eye actually. It passed between the nose and the corner of the eye, at the tear duct.
Starting in the 1980’s I began to see leading players who were same eye dominant as handed. I remember being surprised when I saw them at first. I even thought to myself, “Does that even work?” Again, working from photos, and now videos, it seems to me that the leading players who are right handed and right eye dominant hold the cue either directly under the dominant eye or even a smidge to the outer edge of the eye. So just the opposite of the older generation. There seem to be more of them now.
Yes, playing pool when you are right handed but left eye dominant takes a toll on your neck. I was always a model of perfect posture. Ramrod straight. I have in my eighties lost a disk in my neck. When I walk now, from the shoulders up I look like a goose neck desk lamp. My sister-in-law has even expressed her dismay over it.
Starting in the 1980’s I began to see leading players who were same eye dominant as handed. I remember being surprised when I saw them at first. I even thought to myself, “Does that even work?” Again, working from photos, and now videos, it seems to me that the leading players who are right handed and right eye dominant hold the cue either directly under the dominant eye or even a smidge to the outer edge of the eye. So just the opposite of the older generation. There seem to be more of them now.
Yes, playing pool when you are right handed but left eye dominant takes a toll on your neck. I was always a model of perfect posture. Ramrod straight. I have in my eighties lost a disk in my neck. When I walk now, from the shoulders up I look like a goose neck desk lamp. My sister-in-law has even expressed her dismay over it.
Always negative.