left handed right eye dominat is this bad for pool

AA, Check it out. The part of your eye that sees the best detail is called the fovea it is about the size of the tip on a ball point pen. Your brain will always adjust to the strongest eye. You really don't see what you think you do!
 
The only thing bad for pool is lack of practice time, not only when you get off work, but need to practice at all other times of the day (this will allow you opportunity to distinguish between good focus and bad focus so you can improve and troubleshoot your stroke), practice rotation games, only when you master pocketing all 4000 shots possibilities, Humans instinct will force you to shoot good with time and adapt your style automatically-true it could adapt bad style but with longer sessions you will be able to adjust, actually some shots in the game should be shot with the bad default style (maybe aiming to accommodate bad steer stroke-learn those shots), lastly aim in general will cause a miss of half pocket no more on long shot, where as stroke miss could be between 1/2 a pocket to a full diamond!!
Best of luck.

You know a lot about pool.

You wanna play $ome?
 
Pidge...Great explaination! :thumbup: We teach something very similar.

Scott Lee
http://poolknowledge.com

Get yourself some electrical tape or something similar. Lay the tape straight from the back of the rail, over the cushion and onto the table for about 1ft. Make sure its straight. Now, stand back and position yourself until the lone looks straight. You'll notice the 'step' from rail to bed will not look straight if you are off too far to one side. When it looks straight that's the position your head needs to be in when lining, or aiming a shot through centre cue ball.

Now, get down with your cue pointing straight down the tape on the rail, does the line look joined? If not then move your head until it looks straight and it looks like your cue is pointing down the line. This is your ideal head position over the cue when the tape and cue make a perfect line.

This has been done in snooker, and they have 'stepped' training tools to get the head in the right place, but this cheap alternative does just as good of a job. Make sure the tape you buy is thin, around 1cm in width is perfect.
 
How about using the edge of the tape as the sighting line? Then the width of the tape would not matter.
You are in danger of the tapes edge not being perfectly straight, and because you are focusing on the line between tape and cloth its very thin...too thin almost. Around a cm is perfect I've found. Failing that, drawing a line with a thick sharpie on the tape if you can't get the tape thin enough or straight enough works just as well.
 
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Better late than never.........

I think I hear "The Perfect Aim Man" riding up on his white horse to save your day. :) Johnnyt

Thanks johnny,

Sometimes it's hard to really tell which eye is the dominant eye for sure. The pointing and circle tests only work for 1/2 of the people. That means50/50 like flipping a coin.

Then if you have someone watch your eyes that can be tough also because you might appear to be in the middle but your brain and eyes are actually favoring one way.

And it's these eyes that have most pool players baffled.

The 3's in APA have the eyes way off. this is the main reason they have so much trouble. 4's a little better with the eyes and 5, 6 , 7,8 and so forth.

Now you can get the dominant eye in the most dominant position and see the shot fairly well if you play 8 hours a day 7 days a week. This will allow your eyes and brain to do as good as they can naturally to try and figure this out without any thought on your part.

How would that work with a gun, bow and arrow or anything else that takes some precision. Not so HOT !!!!!!

Why should it be any different with aiming a pool shot. Well it isn't.

You can manually get these eyes in the most correct position manually. This puts the stance and the stroke in align naturally though because the body will follow the eyes.

But nobody has ever figured it out before and players are skeptical about how well this works regardless of how many testimonials there are already on how well this works.

Perfect Aim is all about FUN. It's fun to make the ball instead of missing it. It's fun to be able to correct your aim manually and know your right instead of saying to your Brain, please help me with this, but it is doing the best it can naturally. For some players naturally is not so good.

Everyone can learn to do this manually once the real dominant eye is established and everyone can get to the same level with the eyes.

To be honest I'm tired of skeptics that say I'm just trying to sell videos. But I still keep trying to help the ones that speak up because I have a passion for the game and love to improve a players game so much in just a few minutes of their life.

Perfect Aim, Bar none , is the Holy grail of pool as far as aiming and getting the eyes right. And it has to be learned if your want to improve faster than a snails pace. Because that's how slow it can be waiting for the brain to figure this out for you.

All that say this, I say Good Luck with that.

I'll help you out and you will see that this is the way it is. The shots will clear up for you. You will still need to practice a bunch but now you will get quicker results.

After I teach you Perfect Aim with a Phone Lesson, Yes I said Phone lesson, you will improve about a ball in a few days. This is pretty much a given. My claim about cutting your misses in half almost immediately is an understatement.

My number is 715-563-8712. Just give me a call and I'll get you on the right track. Anytime after 2:00 PM Central time.

All I ask is that you get on here and tell all the players what you think this will do for your game. And the truth is all I want.

Looking forward to it.

And thanks Johnny. I had a tumor removed from my thyroid about the size of a tennis ball about 3 months ago. Had surgery to repair my left knee 10 days ago. Having the right knee replaced on the 27th of October. Then I need my shoulder, the right one repaired. Had surgery on it about 3 years ago but I must have tore something before it was healed. Never has been right.

But I'll be right back out there helping all the players I can once I get back on the road.

Should be January at the latest.

Just give me a call. It won't cost you a dime. Just want to help...............

It don't get any better than this. Best info in the world to improve your game in a quick hurry.
 
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I am right handed but left eye dominant. Not sure if I "taught" myself or if I just picked it up "naturally" but from the time my dad started teaching me how to shoot guns I shot left handed. Everything thing I do now that requires aiming I do left handed. Drove my dad and drill sergeants crazy. lolol
 
You might have occular vision........

I am right handed but left eye dominant. Not sure if I "taught" myself or if I just picked it up "naturally" but from the time my dad started teaching me how to shoot guns I shot left handed. Everything thing I do now that requires aiming I do left handed. Drove my dad and drill sergeants crazy. lolol

This is where you use only one eye and the other one is completely out of the picture.

The way to tell this is just set up a long straight in shot. Close one eye and then the other. If one of your eyes looks perfect with the other eye closed then you have ocular vision. You aim only with one eye.

Here's the biggest problem though. It might still look good with both eyes in the preshot because your eyes havn't crossed on the way down yet. Once they have crossed you have to get the eye in the correct position or the shot will look terrible. Your brain will help get you there on the way down naturally but now the body has to do some serious adjusting to get right for that new improved eye position. This is where the body and stroke alignment will sometimes not feel right.

I hope this makes sense.

Most players with ocular vision get that telescope type of eye in the correct position in the preshot because they can't see it well any other way.

All of us other mortals have both eye trying to work like the dominant eye to a certain respect causing all kinds of trouble.

I wouldn't be surprised if you are one of these players with ocular vision.
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John Morra is a prime example of ocular vision. He has the left eye in the correct position in the preshot and keeps it there all the way to the target below. The body and stroke follow the left eye and fall into place.

Many of these players see the shot kind of like super humans. Their brains and eyes are just wired this way.

If they try to move the cue inbetween their eyes more they can actually get a headache and it kind of hurts.

It took me about 6 months of constant teaching back in 2009 to understand this difference. I was very intrigued by this and worked very hard to understand it. By working with the better players that had this type of vision I learned to help players that had this ocular vision on the amateur level.

The average seems to be about 2 or 3 out of 100 players see like this.

Out of the top 100 pros it appears that about 15 or more are like this. They just have a natural ability to aim better because that one eye is aiming like a telescope. it's just the way they are wired. it's almost like cheating. It's a definite advantage.

If your not wired that way you can't do it that way.

That's where perfect Aim really steps in....keeping the dominant eye dominant......

But if you have this accular vision it's a little different format to aim well. To get the most out of your ability.

Good luck. I hope this helps to understand...........
 
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