Fixing eyes or adjusting aim

[shag_fu]

I kept missing to the left last night. The balls are dead straight. It looks straight, yet my cue is shooting to the right cutting the ball the left. https://youtu.be/vxdaH7yEUAQ?si=fe2g28DNb6Xt7voP

When I try the vision center stuff, it indexes a little to the left. Last night the sight picture seemed to favor a little to the right. Do I adjust the aim to adapt? Maybe line up better while standing?


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[Bob Jewett]

Well, the good news is that it looks like your stick is coming straight through on the line you set up on.

Set the shot up with donuts. Back where your stick crosses over the rail, put two donuts just to each side of the shot line. When you think you have the line correct, look down at the donuts and see if the butt is centered on the shot line.

I have heard that eye dominance can change with fatigue. That could be why the error changes sides. Your preshot looks pretty solid.

 

[Not Dead Ted]

Well, the good news is that it looks like your stick is coming straight through on the line you set up on.

Set the shot up with donuts. Back where your stick crosses over the rail, put two donuts just to each side of the shot line. When you think you have the line correct, look down at the donuts and see if the butt is centered on the shot line.

I have heard that eye dominance can change with fatigue. That could be why the error changes sides. Your preshot looks pretty solid.

In my experience, eye dominance changes with fatigue, aging, and sometimes just for the hell of it. It can also switch back without warning.

I'm not an instructor, but from the video linked, the shooter really has his eyes locked on the object ball. I mean really locked. Might want to try diverting some PSR attention to checking the CB centering/ stick alignment and some CB-OB visual back and forth before finally fixing gaze on the OB. Just a suggestion.

If you are convinced it is a shifting eye dominance problem there is the definitive pseudo-cure of closing non-dominant eye to aim and align. For you, this would require some significant head adjustment to get your dominant eye over the cue. It isn't a long term cure for your issue, but if fatigue sets in, your vision starts to get funky, and you want to keep playing for a while longer, it can help lessen the frustrating misses.