Perfect Aim

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You use monocular vision to aim a rifle, but binocular vision to aim in pool...
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Unless, of course, you close one eye, which is not an unreasonable way to deal with the often unpleasant effects of binocular vision in pool.

BTW, not everyone aims a rifle with only one eye, with even Army instructors being divided on this issue. And, one of the first things you learn when using a single lens microscope, is how to do it with both eyes open (this prevents headaches from prolonged forced eye closure). So, there are venues where strictly monocular tasks are amenable to use of binocular vision.
 
shooting with one eye open and one closed is wrong.

Wrong.
wrong.

both eyees open at all times

why would you want to take away half your eyesight...when shooting a rifle/bow/pool its wrong....i dont know one person that shoots any of these things well that closes an eye while aiming .....shooting one eyed you loose half of the sense of sight. wich isnt good.....put a patch over one eye at night and drive around while its raining or something , one eyes not good for aiming a car either.

if you hadd one eye you wouldnt even get into the army...why would they want you shooting one eyed.
i have seen guys squint or wink wile aiming to make sure that there eyes werent playing tricks but other than that nobody does it and is very succesfull to my knowledge.....

id rather have half my vision in both eyes than perfect vision in one eye and blind in the other anyday.
 
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8pack said:
Alot of peope sight down the cue and aim with the end of the the cue at a spot they want to hit dont they? especaily when its straight or a slight angle.(its the best way ,the only way and it gets the job done as long as you stroke straight).I do alot of hunting and i have a few guns with a open
sights,the only difference with the gun i use my dominate eye the other one
is closed,wether its a cue or a rifle you are still sight down to the end of
a object at target the only difference are how you use your eyes.
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Hi there,

I have found that no matter how you are aiming if the eyes are in the right position you will see the shot correctly. Stick aiming or any other way will work. It all depends on if it gets the eyes in the right position.

I used to hunt alot. Very good with a gun. I am left eye dominent and right handed. I can't shoot left handed. I shoot right handed and aim with my right eye. Either eye will work when aiming down the sights of a gun. If the eye is in the right position that is doing the aiming and the site is on the target it is hard to miss. No matter which eye you are using. Many gun experts know this.

With aiming the pool shot this is not so. You can move the head in the wrong direction so the non dominent eye is where you need to have the dominent one. When this happens on certain shots it still looks ok but the results aren't. Once a players learns Perfect Aim they begin to understand how the eyes really work. It's just how it is. It's nothing invented but just something that needed to be found.

Try this sometime. You can move your head back and forth about an inch and still shoot the shot. But there is only one spot that is perfect. You can find the spot by doing this. Pefect Aim will eneble you to get there right away instead of searching for it on every shot.

I hope this helps. Have a great day Geno.............
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
someone said pool is like 75% Mental, and 25% Knowledge
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With the knowledge that you display on these boards, Im surprised you can even put your cue together :grin:

There are many aspects to the mental game. One of the biggest (and hardest) is getting out of your own way and letting your mind and body do what it has been trained to do. Without proper knowledge and understanding you have no way to do the training.

Woody
 
genomachino said:
Try this sometime. You can move your head back and forth about an inch and still shoot the shot.
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I used to actually have people get down and do this to show them how the shot looks different from different head positions. Nothing really to add here, I just thought it was funny that I was on the right track but couldnt nail down the answer :grin:

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving Geno!
 
poolpro said:
While the statement that "pool is 90% (insert other number here) mental, etc or whatever is a true statement, I wish it was said far less often!

It is repeated MOST often by people to whom it DOES NOT apply!!

This is ONLY a true statement when you have a VERY good command over the physical aspects. ONLY THEN does the game become more of a mental excercise.



Jw
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randyg said:
I agree some what.

Well ok let's use that rifle. Rear sight-one eye. Stock on cheek.
Cue stick. No sight-both eyes. Cue somewhere around head.

No correlation....SPF=randyg
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This exactly why a player needs to know where this spot is. This is why the need is so strong to know the dominent eye.

You can aim a pool shot with your non dominent eye and it will look pretty good. Or you can aim it with the dominent eye and it will look Perfect. The problem is nobody knows how to indentify these two spots. Once you do you can teach the player where this spot is for them. The clarity of the shot is obvious to the player now.

Depending on the eye dominence this range between the to points can be anywheres from 1/2 an inch to 1 1/2 inches. I call the distance between these 2 points the middle. The reason some players play so bad and can't ever get any better is because they don't know where this good spot is and have no chance of finding it. Once they are taught how to find it the results are rediculous. You have one happy pool player at any level.

Ask Rodney Morris for one. He was estatic.

Or ask Angela from Phoenix. WAS Rated 3 APA . Her big smile said it all. And her friends that were watching were in disbelief at how better she was shooting in 10 minutes of instruction. She was actually making some long shots on a 9 footer. Which she had never played on before.

If we play 8 hours a day 7 days a week our eyes will naturally start to get there from repetition. The ones that do this naturally better play better. The ones that don't can't and don't know why.

But just like with a rifle if you know where to put the eye where the site is you can see the shot so much better. This is why Perfect Aim is such an immediate improvement and it just gets better and better the more you work on it and understand it. Now you can correct your aiming because you know where the sight is.

I know you'll figure it out with the info I am putting on here. Many players won't understand what I'm talking about.

I know if I would have showed you this in Vegas there would be no questions.

Ask Stan..........
 
genomachino said:
Hi there,


I used to hunt alot. Very good with a gun. I am left eye dominent and right handed. I can't shoot left handed. I shoot right handed and aim with my right eye. Either eye will work when aiming down the sights of a gun. If the eye is in the right position that is doing the aiming and the site is on the target it is hard to miss. No matter which eye you are using. Many gun experts know this.


I hope this helps. Have a great day Geno.............
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i havent seen anyone in person that can shoulder a shotgun and shoot say flying dove crosseyed..with cosistancy like you say.
(most people like you end up shooting with there dominant eye closed so they can sight correctly...)
or switching wich side they shoulder on(wich would be the correct thing to do)

...im a lefty that shoots gun and bow righty because im right eye dominant....its more natural just to shoot from the same side your dominant eye is on...id like to see you shoot.

and with a bow and arrow you can forget about it....you wont hit anything shooting cross dominant i guaranttteeeee it.

i shoot pool lefty tho no problems
 
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if you hadd one eye you wouldnt even get into the army...why would they want you shooting one eyed.
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To kill the enemy.

U.S. Army snipers who have lost an eye in combat have been successfully returned to full duty as snipers.

As with killing the enemy, you must find your own way in the visual aspects of pool. There is no universal right or wrong. Just what works for you.
 
Patrick Johnson said:
You forgot to apply your apples and oranges principle to your own idea. Aiming a rifle and aiming a cue stick are similar, but they're not the same.

There's only one place for anybody's eye (singular) when aiming a rifle, but that doesn't mean there's only one place for everybody's eyes (plural) when aiming a cue stick or aligning balls in pool. The difference is that when aiming a rifle you're using only one eye and you can get your eye directly behind and in line with the rifle sights and the target, but when aiming a stick or balls you use both eyes and your eyes are always above the line the stick and balls are on.

You use monocular vision to aim a rifle, but binocular vision to aim in pool, and the two are very different. With binocular vision from above it isn't necessarily best to have one eye directly above the things you're trying to align - sometimes, or for some people, it's best to have the things you're trying to align somewhere between the eyes because that's where your brain assembles the twin images from your binocular vision to present the truest single image (mostly due to which eye is dominant and how strongly dominant it is).

I don't know if this is what you teach because I haven't seen your DVD yet, but in general it's not valid to equate sighting a rifle with sighting in pool, although there are similarities.

pj
chgo
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Hi there,

Yes they are the exact same thing. Except you have to learn how to let the eye do the shooting that is doing the most of the aiming. And once you find this spot it is pretty amazing.

If it was putting the eye right over the top it would be pretty simple and someone would have figured it out by now. That isn't how Perfect Aim works or how your eyes work.

This is why some days it seems like you are making everything. You are naturally getting the eyes in the more correct position. The more you practice this week the closer you naturally get to this position that is needed to see the shots better.

If you understood how Perfect Aim works you would understand what I'm talking about.

You don't hear very many complaints from Players that have learned Perfect Aim. There is a reason why. Once they learn they are just happy to know. They don't want anyone else to know this. They might beatem with it.

Go back through the thread and you will see some of the players on AZ that were pretty skeptical. These are some of the same players that are promoting Perfect Aim now that they are using it and understand it. It just flat out works.

Have a great day Geno..............
 
Dead Crab said:
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if you hadd one eye you wouldnt even get into the army...why would they want you shooting one eyed.
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To kill the enemy.

U.S. Army snipers who have lost an eye in combat have been successfully returned to full duty as snipers.

As with killing the enemy, you must find your own way in the visual aspects of pool. There is no universal right or wrong. Just what works for you.
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i almost dont believe it.....the only reason that i believe it is because all the time the army would have invested into there sniper training they just arent going to let them go. and the fact that there job shooting is from behind a monocular scope....other than that, your not getting into the army with one eye going in off the streets they will not accept you.
 
8pack said:
If you could get your face under the tables playing surface you would be
able to sight the cue the same way you sight a rifle......

head position is why its alittle different...................
and cue position...........
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Once you know what you are trying to see it is the same. Once you find it you know.

One of the top teachers in Germany said it like this. It's just like you said. It's right in front of our face and nobody can see it.

If you hold the gun down by your side it would be exactly the same. The people that get the head in the most perfect position while holding the gun down there would shoot the best.

The shooters that did shoot the best from the hip did this naturally and probably didn't know why they did it so well just like the pool players today. The eye positioning would be very important there also.

Have a great day Geno..............
 
RD3P said:
i havent seen anyone in person that can shoulder a shotgun and shoot say flying dove crosseyed..with cosistancy like you say.
(most people like you end up shooting with there dominant eye closed so they can sight correctly...)
or switching wich side they shoulder on(wich would be the correct thing to do)

...im a lefty that shoots gun and bow righty because im right eye dominant....its more natural just to shoot from the same side your dominant eye is on...id like to see you shoot.

and with a bow and arrow you can forget about it....you wont hit anything shooting cross dominant i guaranttteeeee it.

i shoot pool lefty tho no problems
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I'm left eyed dominent and right handed. It makes no difference. I can't even hold the gun up right left handed. Same with a bow. I shoot a 270 target score with no practice. But I'll guarantee this. If the deer is running through the woods and I have my shotgun he going to have a bad day.

When I hold the gun up to my right eye I see like a ghost sight when I have both eyes open with my right eye. My left eye follows the deer real well so I never seem to lose sight of it. I can follow it real well.

I talked to an old timer that shot alot of trap and he explained this to me. He was the same way. This is why he understood it. He said he thought we had an advantage. I don't know because I'm just the way I am and can't see through other peoples eyes.

About 75% of the pro players appear to be opposite eye dominent. Might be an advantage there maybe.

If you switch to left handed and aimed you would see the same thing. Your right eye would help you keep track of the moving target and the left eye would almost look like a ghost site but you can keep it on the target or close most of the time.

All I know is what I see. If you can't see it the same way I do how can you understand. You would need to try it.

I don't expect everyone to understand Perfect Aim until they try it either.
Once you do you would understand like everyone else.

Have a great day Geno............
 
RD3P said:
i havent seen anyone in person that can shoulder a shotgun and shoot say flying dove crosseyed..with cosistancy like you say.
(most people like you end up shooting with there dominant eye closed so they can sight correctly...)
or switching wich side they shoulder on(wich would be the correct thing to do)

...im a lefty that shoots gun and bow righty because im right eye dominant....its more natural just to shoot from the same side your dominant eye is on...id like to see you shoot.

and with a bow and arrow you can forget about it....you wont hit anything shooting cross dominant i guaranttteeeee it.

i shoot pool lefty tho no problems
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Hi there,

If you really wanted to check out my shooting you could e-mail some of my hunting buddies from the past. Results is what counts.

We can talk and talk. You can say I shoot a gun bad. You can say Perfect Aim is no good. You can say whatever you want.

But the bottom line is results and that is what everyone has gotten with Perfect Aim is results.

I was told by one of the top video guys in the country that he thought Perfect Aim was the no 1 selling pool video on the market right now.

How could this be if it didn't work. And how could I be giving all these personal lesson and getting paid. I always tell everyone that if Perfect Aim is not the best thing that you have ever seen the lesson is free.

There has never even been a question about wether I should get paid. In fact many players have paid me extra.

They realize the Perfect Aim lesson was priceless.

Have a great day Geno................
 
Nice to hear from you again...........

Dead Crab said:
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if you hadd one eye you wouldnt even get into the army...why would they want you shooting one eyed.
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To kill the enemy.

U.S. Army snipers who have lost an eye in combat have been successfully returned to full duty as snipers.

As with killing the enemy, you must find your own way in the visual aspects of pool. There is no universal right or wrong. Just what works for you.
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Can you imagine how we would all shoot a gun if we had never seen one. If noone showed us how to use it. Here just point it and shoot.

I wouldn't want that guy covering my back.

Just like a gun Perfect Aim can be taught. The results are all over the internet. It works. It's for real.

I want the Perfect Aim guy on my team especially when he has to make the shot for all the marbles.

Have a great day......... Geno.........
 
genomachino said:
Can you imagine how we would all shoot a gun if we had never seen one. If noone showed us how to use it. Here just point it and shoot.

I wouldn't want that guy covering my back.

Just like a gun Perfect Aim can be taught. The results are all over the internet. It works. It's for real.

I want the Perfect Aim guy on my team especially when he has to make the shot for all the marbles.

Have a great day......... Geno.........
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And the SALE PITCH NEVER ENDS.......If you don't have Perfect Aimong DVD you will never be able to play pool.

How come Willie Hoppie, and Willie Mosconi were so good without Geno's DVD?????
 
CocoboloCowboy said:
Know what woody I think you need to worry about yourself, and left me find my own way without the help of "Perfect Aiming".
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You know what Cowboy I would have never said a word to you if you hadnt become so infatuated with slamming Gene on every thread that ever comes up about perfect aim. For some reason you have been hell bent on bashing him and it gets old.

You can find your own way without perfect aim, a lot of people have done so in the past, but they werent an ass about it.
 
Heres a little test for some of you ,without trying to use genes method ,set up a shot that is around 85 degrees and place the ob on the rail.Now why your standing behind the shot in a upright postition line up the edges.Do this cutting to the right and the left.while standing behind the shot close one eye
and open it and close the other eye.You may find that you already have been doing this normaly.

I have seen people talk about the thin shots,How perfect aimed has helped them.Shouldnt this be the easy shot of them all,the contacts points are easy lined up.Straight in and very thin ,not to hard to see.
Good luck with lining up and guessing.....................
 
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