Eye ?

[ipoppa33]

I know there are different theories on eye dominance and it's importance. My question is I've done a bunch of the test and it shows I'm right eye dominate, but shots don't look correct that way. Sometimes they look correct with the cue centered and sometimes they don't, but if I use my left eye shots look on (doesn't mean I'll make them, but they look better). So is it possible to be right eye dom but shots look better with my left eye?

Confused. Thanks.
Stan

 

[greyghost]

I know there are different theories on eye dominance and it's importance. My question is I've done a bunch of the test and it shows I'm right eye dominate, but shots don't look correct that way. Sometimes they look correct with the cue centered and sometimes they don't, but if I use my left eye shots look on (doesn't mean I'll make them, but they look better). So is it possible to be right eye dom but shots look better with my left eye?

Confused. Thanks.
Stan

YES!!! Eye dominance is BS it does not matter how you hold the cue over your sight line, as long as you can see your sight line clearly then hold the cue there.

I am right eye dominate and shoot left handed with the cue centered on my chin, when I shoot pretty steady right handed and hold the cue centered under my chin right handed also. THink about how keith mcready shoots, the cue is way out to the side, some players play with the cue in their inside eye while their outside eye is the dominate one.

The point is IT DOESN"T MATTER, just hold the cue how you feel is the best and most natural position for you, if that entails going throuh differient types then by all means experiment. But do not buy into the snake oil saying if your this then you MUST do this because that is quack advice.

Grey Ghost

 

[pooltchr]

We shoot pool with both eyes. If you want to prove it, go to the drug store and buy a $2 eye patch. Try it over each eye. I'm betting you will find out real quick that you need both eyes to see the shot.

Steve

 

[Big C]

We shoot pool with both eyes. If you want to prove it, go to the drug store and buy a $2 eye patch. Try it over each eye. I'm betting you will find out real quick that you need both eyes to see the shot.

Steve

Just close one eye...it's free! :wink:

 

[greyghost]

or get 2 that you can see through, but others think your blind....

walk into the pool hall feeling around with your cue, get some balls to the table and get to missing.....see how much action you can chum up.

 

[Neil]

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[ipoppa33]

Thanks for the replies, that makes sense.
Now one less thing to worry about lol.
Thanks again I appreciate it.

Stan

 

[greyghost]

Thanks for the replies, that makes sense.
Now one less thing to worry about lol.
Thanks again I appreciate it.

Stan

any time, you its good info too...if what we posted were false every alarm in your body would be going off screaming oh no! NOW WHAT DO I DO lol...could get so bad you start shooting with the cue on top your head lol

some things are just too goofey to be true,
Grey Ghost

 

[Dead Crab]

Look at my avatar- left eye over the cue, but I am right eye dominant. I know, I'm a little weird.

Not really. Ralf shoots in a similar way, as do many top players.

I would speculate that when you are about to pull the trigger, if you closed your right eye, your perception of the shot wouldn't change....which would mean you are shooting one-eyed without even knowing it.

 

[greyghost]

Not really. Ralf shoots in a similar way, as do many top players.

I would speculate that when you are about to pull the trigger, if you closed your right eye, your perception of the shot wouldn't change....which would mean you are shooting one-eyed without even knowing it.

bull corn, if he was shooting with only one eye he would have lost major depth perception. Believe me if both eyes are open your using both eyes period. If you don't believe that do what steve said and put on an eye patch and go check out how you play. Bet my life you can't play your normal speed. You can absolutely favor one particular eye, but your using both of them...

Grey Ghost

 

[Dead Crab]

bull corn, if he was shooting with only one eye he would have lost major depth perception. Believe me if both eyes are open your using both eyes period. If you don't believe that do what steve said and put on an eye patch and go check out how you play. Bet my life you can't play your normal speed. You can absolutely favor one particular eye, but your using both of them...

Grey Ghost

I have a life, and no use for a spare, so I won't take the bet.

I shoot one eyed. I close my dominant right eye (I shoot left). It works better for me. Occasionally I will bump the cue ball with a warm-up stroke, but other than that, I don't miss the depth perception.

It is the extreme of forcing one eye to assume command of central vision. Neil's head-cock is a more subtle way of doing this. If I were younger and had more playing time, that's the kind of positioning I would go for.

If you are cross dominant, your dominant eye is not naturally on the aim line and you cannot see the shot correctly. One of the above techniques is needed to get a dominant (or single) eye aligned with the aim line.

 

[greyghost]

if the eyes see together to the same place your dominate eye does, then what is the point of closing one of them

 

[Majic]

Not really. Ralf shoots in a similar way, as do many top players.

I would speculate that when you are about to pull the trigger, if you closed your right eye, your perception of the shot wouldn't change....which would mean you are shooting one-eyed without even knowing it.

When you are getting ready to pull the trigger, close both eyes and hear the ball hit the back of the pocket.

 

[randyg]

I know there are different theories on eye dominance and it's importance. My question is I've done a bunch of the test and it shows I'm right eye dominate, but shots don't look correct that way. Sometimes they look correct with the cue centered and sometimes they don't, but if I use my left eye shots look on (doesn't mean I'll make them, but they look better). So is it possible to be right eye dom but shots look better with my left eye?

Confused. Thanks.
Stan

Set up an easy repeatable shot. Shoot this shot 5 times with your head in a different position( left-center-right). After 15 shots you should know where to place your head over the cue....SPF=randyg

 

[Guy]

Set up an easy repeatable shot. Shoot this shot 5 times with your head in a different position( left-center-right). After 15 shots you should know where to place your head over the cue....SPF=randyg

Love how you simplify things! Thanks.

 

[genomachino]

I can help you understand..........

I know there are different theories on eye dominance and it's importance. My question is I've done a bunch of the test and it shows I'm right eye dominate, but shots don't look correct that way. Sometimes they look correct with the cue centered and sometimes they don't, but if I use my left eye shots look on (doesn't mean I'll make them, but they look better). So is it possible to be right eye dom but shots look better with my left eye?

Confused. Thanks.
Stan

Hi there Stan,

I have run into about 10 players out of about 1000 that I have worked with that pass every test that says they are right eye dominent but they shoot with the cue more under the left eye.

What you need to do is set up a straight in shot. Now move your head to the right a little until you lose the shot. Then move your head to the left until you lose the shot. Have someone look from the object ball to see which way you can move the eye the most and still see the shot.

One way should look better than the other.

Nomatter what you want to shoot the way you see the shot the best.

If this doesn't work for you there is another way to tell but it would be a real long explaination. Call me and I'll help you. 715-563-8712 Geno:smile

 

[Majic]

I know there are different theories on eye dominance and it's importance. My question is I've done a bunch of the test and it shows I'm right eye dominate, but shots don't look correct that way. Sometimes they look correct with the cue centered and sometimes they don't, but if I use my left eye shots look on (doesn't mean I'll make them, but they look better). So is it possible to be right eye dom but shots look better with my left eye?

Confused. Thanks.
Stan

This is what works for me. I am left eye dominant, but on thin cuts to left I move my right eye closer to the contact line and the opposite for thin cuts to the right.

This is in direct conflict with the Perfect Aim THEORY.

 

[Scott Lee]

This is absolutely accurate information...exactly what we teach! Where you "perceive" a straight line, is where your cue should be...it may be under the dominant eye, the opposite eye, centered under the chin...or somewhere else. All that matters is that you can deliver the cue, in the straight line that you perceive.

Scott Lee
www.poolknowledge.com

No matter what you want to shoot the way you see the shot the best.

 

[shankster8]

Hi there Stan,

I have run into about 10 players out of about 1000 that I have worked with that pass every test that says they are right eye dominent but they shoot with the cue more under the left eye.

What you need to do is set up a straight in shot. Now move your head to the right a little until you lose the shot. Then move your head to the left until you lose the shot. Have someone look from the object ball to see which way you can move the eye the most and still see the shot.

One way should look better than the other.

Nomatter what you want to shoot the way you see the shot the best.

If this doesn't work for you there is another way to tell but it would be a real long explaination. Call me and I'll help you. 715-563-8712 Geno:smile

Gene, you say to set up a straight shot and then move our head (eyes) left and right till we "lose the shot". Where do we locate our head relative to the cue to start with? If I move my head more to the left, for example, starting from the cue being centered between my eyes, what would that mean? You said it, so I assume it means something, but I sure can't understand it.

 

[JoeW]

Here is an article I wrote that might help you find your own way to shoot. It is similar to what RandyG and others have said with specific ideas about how to find the way that you should use your eyes.

http://www.sunburstselect.com/PBReview/HowToUseYourEyes.htm

Joe Tucker has some good ideas and has spent much time developing his third eye trainer. Here is a link to his web site with many videos.


http://www.joetucker.net/