Eye Dominance causes this problem.....

genomachino

genomachino

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The inability to keep your dominant eye in the most correct position causes this problem.

Set the cue ball one foot above the side pockets in the middle of the table and put the object ball one foot below the right side pocket right on the rail.

This will be a quarter ball hit. Use a ghost ball to make sure it's 1/4 ball.

Shoot this shot cutting to the left 15 times with no English and count how many you miss.

Then set up the shot on the left side. Cutting to the right.

Shoot it 15 times.

You will see that one side is easier to make. In fact the side that you miss the most will you will be hitting the OB too thick.

This is caused by not having the dominant eye in the most correct position letting the non dominant eye work a little bit as dominant.

Unless you know how to get these eyes right you just keep missing the same type of shots over and over and over and over. Sound familiar.

The way that you cut the ball and it's too thick is your non dominant eye

Trouble cutting to the right your left eye dominant.

Trouble cutting to the left your right eye dominant.

There might be one exception here and there but for the most part this is how it is.

This is not a theory but fact from thousands of lessons and seeing the same thing over and over.

I am doing this to help players so if you want to call and argue please call for the Free phone lesson first please. It will eliminate your doubts immediately.

I will be doing Free Phone lessons to help any AZers learn how to do this.

Just give me a call and be by a pool table.

This is why most players can't improve. The eyes just keep on betraying us.

Letting your brain just try to do this naturally with the eyes is ridiculous when you can manually do it and remove that bad look we get when getting down on a shot.

This is why it looks so bad sometimes.

It's all about the eyes....call 715-563-8712

I will be doing this for a limited amount of time.

I have stenosis right now and need surgery to correct the problem. This is keeping me from playing much right now but I can still talk and help players play better.

Call anytime after 12:00 central time.
 
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I agree completely. I am not a very good shot at all but I have been playing and praticing seriosly here lately. I was playing the ghost and would run three balls until I got a cut shot to the right. I would miss it every time. So I just stopped and praticed it and I still sucked. I shot right handed but am left eye dominant. I am putting my left eye above the stick and I try to see the shot with my left eye but I still stuggle with those shots.
 
When I started playing pool I was better at cutting balls to the left. Eventually, after playing enough one pocket...favoring the right pocket...I got to where I cut balls better to the right now. Now I tend to miss cuts to the left...hitting the ball a little fat.

Can this sequence be explained by eye dominance?

Thanks
 
This is the absolute reason for sure.......

pvc lou said:
When I started playing pool I was better at cutting balls to the left. Eventually, after playing enough one pocket...favoring the right pocket...I got to where I cut balls better to the right now. Now I tend to miss cuts to the left...hitting the ball a little fat.

Can this sequence be explained by eye dominance?

Thanks
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One way will be too thin , the other too fat.

It's all because the wrong eye is trying to work being dominant. It only needs to be a hair out of line to screw things up.
 
A Simple Experiment

On a 9 foot table place a 4 or 5 foot straight edge diagonally on the table in line with a corner pocket. Now place an OB and QB about 2 feet apart against the straight edge. Realign the straight edge and the balls as necessary so that the balls are physically straight in to the corner pocket.

Stand behind the QB, about a cue sticks distance, don't look at the QB yet, while looking at the OB align your body until your eyes tell you that you are seeing the OB straight into the corner pocket.

When you feel that you are alined properly look down at the QB, do your eyes tell you the QB is in line with the OB or do your eyes tell you that the QB appears to be off to the left or right of the OB.

When I do this experiment the QB appears not to be straight in with the OB, even though I know that the OB and QB are physically aligned with the corner pocket, instead the QB appears to be about a quarter ball off to my left.

Can someone who has conducted this experiment comment on what they believe is going on with the eyes. I do know that as an objects distance increases that my eye dominance moves from the center of my right closer to the bridge of my nose (inline with the right eye tear duct.

I do practice what Joe W states by not taking my eye off of the OB contact point until I am in the shooting position, I guess I have always done this.......don't know.

John :smile:
 
genomachino said:
One way will be too thin , the other too fat.

It's all because the wrong eye is trying to work being dominant. It only needs to be a hair out of line to screw things up.
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What about when the sides flip. What happened when I went from hitting left-fat&right-thin to right-fat&left-thin?

Is that an eye dominance issue?
 
Gene,

For quarter ball hits. Should your dominate eye be at the line of aim or should you use your eyes as you describe for super thin edge hits in Perfect Aim?
 
I have never see nthis happen in thousands of cases.........

pvc lou said:
What about when the sides flip. What happened when I went from hitting left-fat&right-thin to right-fat&left-thin?

Is that an eye dominance issue?
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The only way is that you adjust too far.

But you might have just realized how it is and just thought I was the other way before.

I've had players tell me that they have trouble to the left or to the right.

Once I set up the shot they can see it is just the opposite that they thought.

It is always to thick when we miss cutting the way of the non dominant eye.

There are some rare exceptions, a shot here and there but only because of an over adjustment.

If not the play usually thinks the wrong eye is dominant.

It happens all the time.

It's fun showing players that think this or that and show them how it really is. And the great part is they always agree afterwards because now they can see what I mean with their own eyes.

And seeing is believing.
 
You beed to call me for the Free phone lesson.......

Pete said:
Gene,

For quarter ball hits. Should your dominate eye be at the line of aim or should you use your eyes as you describe for super thin edge hits in Perfect Aim?
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It will seem like you are aiming with your dominant eye when your shooting a shot that your non dominant eye is shooting because the image goes from your non dominant eye to your dominant eye and then to the brain when both eye are open.

The only time you can tell if the non dominant eye is in the correct position manually when it shoots the shot is to close the dominant eye. This is the only way that the image from the non dominant eye goes directly to the brain.

This re routing is part of the problem. The only way to assure that we are in the right position is to manually get things right from the beginning.

Our brains do a pretty good job and will get real good in some cases but once a player knows how to get this right the improvements are more than ever imagined.

Call me for the Phone lesson Pete and I will totally clear this up for you.

Thanks again for being a Perfect Aim customer.
 
Of course it does......

One Pocket John said:
On a 9 foot table place a 4 or 5 foot straight edge diagonally on the table in line with a corner pocket. Now place an OB and QB about 2 feet apart against the straight edge. Realign the straight edge and the balls as necessary so that the balls are physically straight in to the corner pocket.

Stand behind the QB, about a cue sticks distance, don't look at the QB yet, while looking at the OB align your body until your eyes tell you that you are seeing the OB straight into the corner pocket.

When you feel that you are alined properly look down at the QB, do your eyes tell you the QB is in line with the OB or do your eyes tell you that the QB appears to be off to the left or right of the OB.

When I do this experiment the QB appears not to be straight in with the OB, even though I know that the OB and QB are physically aligned with the corner pocket, instead the QB appears to be about a quarter ball off to my left.

Can someone who has conducted this experiment comment on what they believe is going on with the eyes. I do know that as an objects distance increases that my eye dominance moves from the center of my right closer to the bridge of my nose (inline with the right eye tear duct.

I do practice what Joe W states by not taking my eye off of the OB contact point until I am in the shooting position, I guess I have always done this.......don't know.

John :smile:
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Hi there John.....

And of course it does. You have to get the dominant eye in the most dominant position and keep it there all the way down.

You have to make sure that the dominant eye stays in this position.

The minute the non dominant eye has a chance to become dominant it will just try to do it.

Looking at the OB on the way is the only way to go. This is what I teach also. If I could have given you a lesson while I was in St Louis you would have seen this.

Give me a call and I will show you on the table how this works.

715-563-8712 Talk to you soon.........
 
Geno, just want to wish you the best on the upcoming surgery and may you have both a speedy and complete recovery. :thumbup:
 
Just got off the phone with John from Idaho.......

Great fun......

John thought he was right eye dominant. Found out he was left eyed.

Once he found out why he was having trouble cutting to the right and I showed him how to fix it he was totally amazed.

Next.....The phone is ringing again.....more fun............
 
genomachino said:
The inability to keep your dominant eye in the most correct position causes this problem.

Set the cue ball one foot above the side pockets in the middle of the table and put the object ball one foot below the right side pocket right on the rail.

This will be a quarter ball hit. Use a ghost ball to make sure it's 1/4 ball.

Shoot this shot cutting to the left 15 times with no English and count how many you miss.

Then set up the shot on the left side. Cutting to the right.

Shoot it 15 times.

You will see that one side is easier to make. In fact the side that you miss the most will you will be hitting the OB too thick.

This is caused by not having the dominant eye in the most correct position letting the non dominant eye work a little bit as dominant.

Unless you know how to get these eyes right you just keep missing the same type of shots over and over and over and over. Sound familiar.

The way that you cut the ball and it's too thick is your non dominant eye

Trouble cutting to the right your left eye dominant.

Trouble cutting to the left your right eye dominant.

There might be one exception here and there but for the most part this is how it is.

This is not a theory but fact from thousands of lessons and seeing the same thing over and over.

I am doing this to help players so if you want to call and argue please call for the Free phone lesson first please. It will eliminate your doubts immediately.

I will be doing Free Phone lessons to help any AZers learn how to do this.

Just give me a call and be by a pool table.

This is why most players can't improve. The eyes just keep on betraying us.

Letting your brain just try to do this naturally with the eyes is ridiculous when you can manually do it and remove that bad look we get when getting down on a shot.

This is why it looks so bad sometimes.

It's all about the eyes....call 715-563-8712

I will be doing this for a limited amount of time.

I have stenosis right now and need surgery to correct the problem. This is keeping me from playing much right now but I can still talk and help players play better.

Call anytime after 12:00 central time.
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All of this is wonderful information above, than all you need is the ability to Stroke the Ball 110% in a Straight Line 110% of the time, about 15 or more other skills to add in to your game, and you would be playing on the Pro Tour, or Winning a Lot of money each night you go out and play.:smile:
 
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