jjinfla said:
I subscribe to Bob Byrne's dominant eye theory: "If you have to be told to put one eye over the cue, you are a hopeless case and should stick to bowling"
Jake
I guess snooker players, generally regarded as the best pocketers of balls on the planet, are all "hopeless" since 99% of them shoot with the cue aligned in the middle of their faces.
As other posters have said, whether or not the cue is aligned under the dominant eye (yes, almost everybody has one) is inconsequential. Consistency in alignment from shot to shot is far more important. As Steve Davis said during the 2000 WPC (paraphrased), "Look at Neils Feijen and tell me whether there is anything to this dominant eye theory. He's cueing up with his EAR!" Watch Neils's stroke, though, and it's FLAWLESS.
Any instructor or, in some cases, writers who are too revered, who espouses only one way as the right way is not to be fully trusted. Go to any tournament, men or women's, amateur or pro, and you'll see a myriad of stances, grips, bridges, and head alignments. You'll also see that not everybody plays patterns the same way, or strokes the same way. People are physically AND mentally different. As such, different methods, even way different methods like Feijen's, can't be simply dismissed with a pooh-pooh and a wave of the hand. Instructors who do so probably aren't good instructors, and although I've never met Scott Lee or talked to him, his earlier post convinced me that he's probably a pretty damned good instructor. As long as the end result is the same (OBs fall into pockets and whitey gets to its intended position), you could be balancing a book on your head, using your foot as a bridge, and the other foot soaking in a bucket of water. If you do it the same for every shot (and PRACTICE!!), you'll get better.
-djb
