left english vs right english

[BilliardsAbout]

"Reports from the field..."

lol

Your "reports" are as credible as your "instruction".

pj
chgo

The eyewitness reports claiming that you play poorly are discussed in various threads here at AZ. Submit a three-minute video taken with your phone to support your counterclaim.

 

[FranCrimi]

it's most likely my aim because for a couple of years my vision centre was offline (too far to my right) , so i was perceiving slight right english as center ball. so when i wanted to put on slight left english many times i was actually hitting center ball with no spin.
now that i have moved my vision centre online i have fixed the issue but i think that years of offline alignment/wrong perception have made it more difficult for me to get used to stroking with left english, especially if i want to put on a big amount of it, so i think what sometimes happens is when i want to put on more than 1 tip of left english, sometimes i'm not actually aiming on that spot, i'm aiming with less left english than i think and then i put on more spin on the final stroke.

sometimes flaws are hard to get rid of especially if you've been doing it for years, so you need a lot of practice to completely remove them from your game.

Yes. You were probably viewing the shot more with your dominant left eye over the cue. Therefore you were seeing more of the right side than the left side of the cue ball. As I mentioned to you before, you can also perceive the center of the cue ball a bit off because you are seeing more of the right side.

If you try to 'fix' your perception with a head adjustment, you may be deceived into thinking that you have made the correction, and it will work for a short while, but then things will start to change.

A strong physically dominant eye will always dominate the person's vision. It means that it sends the visual information to your brain before the other eye. This means that your natural tendency will be to situate that eye as your center. So what will happen is that you will start to change your head position back to where it was before, under your dominant eye, without realizing you're doing it. That messes up your stance which you adjusted for your new head position.

I have seen this not only with myself, but over and over and over with players who try to make a head adjustment instead of an aim adjustment. You can not change your physically dominant eye, so work with it. Depending on the severity of the eye dominance, you can make some minor adjustments under that eye, but you may even wind up fighting that as well. It depends.