Left Eye Dominant Pro Players

Wedge

Wedge

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Does anyone know of any left eye dominant Pro players?
A friend of mine is really left eye dominant and he is working hard on his stance and stepping into the shot. I thought there may be a few left eye dominant Pro's that he could watch on You Tube to see their mechanics.

Thanks for any help

Wedge
 
Wedge said:
Does anyone know of any left eye dominant Pro players?
A friend of mine is really left eye dominant and he is working hard on his stance and stepping into the shot. I thought there may be a few left eye dominant Pro's that he could watch on You Tube to see their mechanics.

Thanks for any help

Wedge
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John Morra is the first one who comes to mind. Assuming you are asking about players who are right handed.
 
I am *severely* left eye dominant. SO I have noticed many pros who are the same. The most obvious examples I can think of are John Morra and Jesse Engle. You can really see the cue under their left eye.

I have payed lots of attention and put a lot of work into my stance. To be honest, there really isn't any special tricks except these:

1) Try to determine your "center of vision". I have figured out an easy way to do this. Go to a mirror with your cue. Get down in your stance and stroke straight into the mirror. Line up so that it appears the the real cue is pointed exactly into the mirror image of the cue. In other words, position yourself so that it looks like your real shaft could slide straight inside the reflected shaft. Now look at where your shaft is in relation to your eyes. *This* is your center of vision.

2) Line up with your center of vision on the shot line *before* you bend down. Obviously, you will want to keep your center of vision on the shot line at all times if possible, but particularly when you are positioning your feet and bending down. (Very helpful on the Break to make sure and not move your center of vision off the line, even if you step up. There is a great tendency to move to the left on the break if you are a right hander. Don't do it.)

3) Make sure in your practice strokes that you are looking *straight* down your shaft at your intended target. If you did 1 & 2 above, this should be pretty natural.


Hope this helps. Good luck!

KMRUNOUT
 
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Wedge
 
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john morra..i watch him play at my local room, cus im left eye dom n right handed, im working hard right trying to find the best position and stance, it can be frustrating.
 
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Thanks 3andstop, DTL and Pryme...this is why I love AZ...people like you that are there to help!!!

Thanks Again

Wedge
 
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Wedge said:
Does anyone know of any left eye dominant Pro players?
A friend of mine is really left eye dominant and he is working hard on his stance and stepping into the shot. I thought there may be a few left eye dominant Pro's that he could watch on You Tube to see their mechanics.

Thanks for any help

Wedge
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Years ago, three of the best players on the planet were right-handed and
left-eyed......Willie Mosconi, Joe Davis, and George Chenier.

I don't think it is important to know that though.
I think a great player brings his cue to his eyes, like a rifle shooter.
If you bring your eyes to the cue, it gets complicated.
 
pt109 said:
Years ago, three of the best players on the planet were right-handed and
left-eyed......Willie Mosconi, Joe Davis, and George Chenier.

I don't think it is important to know that though.
I think a great player brings his cue to his eyes, like a rifle shooter.
If you bring your eyes to the cue, it gets complicated.
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PROFOUND
i agree
 
Ronnie O plays with his left eye lined up over the cue as well.
 

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I am left handed and left eye dominant with the cue under my left eye. I had an issue with shoulder/elbow/wrist alignment, and I tried to move my body left to adjust for this. While it helped, the shot always "looked" wrong to my eye. So, I went back to my natural feeling setup, and made a change to my cue elbow moving it out to the left to get rid of the chicken wing over the back elbow.....waalaa! I'm a new and better player!

have fun,

G.
 
pt109 said:
Years ago, three of the best players on the planet were right-handed and
left-eyed......Willie Mosconi, Joe Davis, and George Chenier.

I don't think it is important to know that though.
I think a great player brings his cue to his eyes, like a rifle shooter.
If you bring your eyes to the cue, it gets complicated.
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bbb said:
PROFOUND
i agree
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Yup, I agree, too. In snooker, even though you see the player bending over onto the cue, it's a mere reversal of the [bringing the rifle to the eyes] movement. It's not placing the cue first and molding the player's body around it (as is done in pool). Rather, it's assuming the stance, putting the cue down (stance first, cue next), and then merely completing the movement with positioning the head/eyes over the cue (i.e. bringing the cue to the eyes by bending over onto the cue).

-Sean
 
Eye dominance

I recently started back playing pool after a very long hiatus. For the first month I was playing I would run a couple balls then miss seemingly easy shots. I read about eye dominance her on AZ and just for kicks I did the little test to determine my dominant eye. According to the test, I am left eye dominant and i shoot right handed for the most part. I am ambidextrous, so I can shoot with either hand, but I have always shot right handed and its just what I am more comfortable with.

Here, at home on the dining table, I took a few balls I had from when I owned a table and lined up mock shots. My normal pre -shot routine was to find my line, bend into the shot, and shoot. Most of the time this would line the cue up under my right eye ( I got my wife to help see what eye I automatically went to when bending into the shot.

I thought about it for a bit and decided to try something. I did my normal pre-shot routine, HOWEVER, I did it just to the right of the shot line. When I got into my stance from just a few inches to the right of the shot line, it lined the cue under my left eye (again, the wife helped with this).

She noticed that with my normal stance, my cue would be about 1/2 inch off of the shot line but in my mind and vision, I THOUGHT I was on the line.

I did another test. I took an extra shaft and laid it on the table. I got down in my stance normally and pretended the extra shaft was the shot line. Sure enough, my cue was coming in over the other shaft at an angle, even though I thought I was dead straight. I came into the shot a little to the right of the shot line( shaft on the table) and it lined up perfect.

The next day I paid close attention and lined up from the right while shooting pool. My game instantly improved and I was running 5-6 balls again, ran a couple racks out even.

Ever since then, my game has improved 50%. Its tough retraining yourself how to line upshots when you've been doing it one way for 30 years, but I am doing it.

Eye dominance, at least in my situation, means an awful lot.
 
^^exact same thing happened with me, local instructor and pro player was able to help me with it, shot perception was so off, i was way of the right of centre ball and line of the shot.

pocketing balls is easier, but now im just trying to line up exactly the same for everyshot, and cant seem to figure it out.

btw when cut towards the right do u have a hard time? cus i do now it seems awkward, always hit the ball full.
 
I'm left eye dominant and this hinders my rifle shooting but has little to do with pool or hand gun shooting. We use two eyes to aim. There is no one finite path for your aim (as with aiming a rifle). Your brain makes a mental adjustment for two eye paths. You should take about 2 seconds longer to focus on the object ball with "quiet eyes." This gives your brain enough time to calculate. Remember to trust your instincts. Don't stare too long. Two seconds is all you need.

Dr Dave is where I first saw this. There is a female psychologist that has developed the idea of quiet eyes. For me, I've seen improvement in my game by focusing on this and principles learned from the inner game of tennis. These two schools of thought are complimentary.

Respect, Courage, and Commitment!
 
I'm right handed but left eyed. The only thing I do left handed is shoot long guns. Like some have said..you aim with both eyes in pool,not just one so I don't think it matters.
IMO if you want to play great pool... don't "aim" JB
 
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