Hand & Eye Cordination

[TheConArtist]

They say pool relies on hand and eye cordination, and i was wondering my fellow AZBer's thoughts on this hand and eye cordination on aiming, as to what your eyes are doing vs. your practice strokes. I know alot of people who just hold the cue without practice strokes and fire and have a pretty good potting skills. If i have lost you, here is what i mean. What are your eyes doing when you are stroking doing your practice strokes, do you get down over the shot and don't do any practice strokes but look at the objectball then the cueball then stroke once then start do warm up strokes looking at nothing at the objectball or cueball or even back and forth. I know for me i am looking at the objectball while i am looking there i pull back and finish my stroke but when i finish my stroke i look at the cueball, then vice versa. I know its confusing i even lost myself there LOL, sorry, but if what i said registered any please leave some comments, tips, adive etc... Thanks Cole 'TheConArtist'

 

[Jude Rosenstock]

They say pool relies on hand and eye cordination, and i was wondering my fellow AZBer's thoughts on this hand and eye cordination on aiming, as to what your eyes are doing vs. your practice strokes. I know alot of people who just hold the cue without practice strokes and fire and have a pretty good potting skills. If i have lost you, here is what i mean. What are your eyes doing when you are stroking doing your practice strokes, do you get down over the shot and don't do any practice strokes but look at the objectball then the cueball then stroke once then start do warm up strokes looking at nothing at the objectball or cueball or even back and forth. I know for me i am looking at the objectball while i am looking there i pull back and finish my stroke but when i finish my stroke i look at the cueball, then vice versa. I know its confusing i even lost myself there LOL, sorry, but if what i said registered any please leave some comments, tips, adive etc... Thanks Cole 'TheConArtist'

Well, for starters, the moment you get down on the shot, you're kinda in a groove. I mean, there's very little you can change once you've settled into your stance. Most of your aiming is going to occur BEFORE you get down on the shot. I have talked to a number of people about it and opinions really vary. Some look only at the object ball. Some rarely do. Some do sometimes. The point is, you want to do whatever it takes to confidently deliver the cue in a straight and smooth fashion. If looking at the object ball accomplishes this, do that. If looking at the cue-ball does it, then that's what you should do.

 

[supergreenman]

Hand Eye coordination. I hadn't really related that to pool. To me it has to do more with action reaction sports like tennis and video games and the list goes on.

I'm not entirely convinced that it's required in pool as long as your set up right, oh hell what do I know I guess that would take hand eye co-ordination. never mind the above

 

[TheConArtist]

Thanks guys for the fast replies, i wrote to Karen Corr once about this same subject and she said it has to do with what your eyes are doing with your stroke she wanted me to come down where she lived so she can give a more detailed explanation but that isn't going to happen wished i could. But The Texas Tornado only takes two practice strokes and she is one of the best shot makers in the game so i guess it doesn't matter what your eyes are doing when you do your warm up strokes. I always tried to watch the eyes of the pros to see how their eyes are moving with there stroke, take The Black Widow for an example, she is looking at the objectball without doing no warm up strokes then pulls back then shifts her eyes to the cueball then finishes her practice stroke thats it no more then repeats, Allison gets down looks at the objectball without any stroking then looks at the cueball then objectball then strokes once then from there alot of warm up strokes looking back and forth with out stopping with the practice strokes, some others take alot of practice strokes looking at the cueball then stop and look at the objectball then stroke once etc... so i guess i just answered my own question LOL, it doesn't matter with the strokes or what the eyes are doing to contradict it huh.