Snooker players who shoot with cue under dominant eye

victorl

victorl

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From the videos that I've seen, it looks like most of the top snooker pros shoot with the cue directly centered under their chins. I just wanted to know if there were any professionals who line up under their dominant eyes, such as Feijen or Strickland in pool.

Thanks,
Vic
 
There are a few, but nothing as pronounced as Strickland or Feijen. Judd Trump comes to mind, and boy can he make balls.
 
Thanks for the replies.
I've always felt that eye dominance was an important factor in pool, so it is very interesting to see that nearly all snooker pros play with a centered cue. In snooker circles, would off-center cueing be considered a flaw that needs correction?
 
Generally speaking, in snooker you want 4 point contact with the cue - bridge hand, chin, chest, rear hand. If you want dominant eye over the cue, just turn your head slightly.

Cliff
 
The great Joe Davis was VERY left eye dominant......
...some people called him one-eyed Joe.
Two other great players from around that time were just as left-eyed....
..George Chenier, the North American snooker champion for 25 years...
..and Willie Mosconi , who looked like a snooker player in 1941.

Graham Miles, a 1980's snooker pro, was very much like Feijen......
..John Spencer said he played the game by ear..:smile:

I feel you should bring your cue to your vision rather than bring your vision
to the cue....why would you want to look down your cue?...the cue can't see
a damned thing.

..so..anybody who has a dominant eye and insists on the cue touching
the middle of his chin has a lot of extra work to do.
just my opinion, of course
 
pt109 said:
..so..anybody who has a dominant eye and insists on the cue touching
the middle of his chin has a lot of extra work to do.
just my opinion, of course
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Just curious, what's your take on players whose dominant eye is opposite their shooting hand?
 
Aten said:
Just curious, what's your take on players whose dominant eye is opposite their shooting hand?
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I'm right-handed and right-eyed....
...I wish I was right-handed and left-eyed.
Mosconi, Chenier, and J Davis looked comfortable....
..much more than Feijen and Strickland.

I was a golfer first, and I feel being 'opposite-eyed' is an advantage at
that game also. Every things feels tighter and more natural.

..and you don't even have to know which is your dominate eye....
..my cue was parting my goatee on the right side long before someone
made me aware of it.

like I said in another post, if you bring the cue to your vision, it will
take into account any personal idiosyncrocies.
 
a questionable assumption

to me the assumption that cue under the middle of the chin means that the cue is centered between the eyes is questionable. if the stick were aligned under the belly button it would be clearly true. i think that it would take a good bend in the neck to put the face absolutely square with the line of the shot, but maybe that is exactly what the standard is. i have been having difficulty dealing with eye dominance and eye placement for decades and i always pay attention to what i see the good players do. watching championship matches on youtube i have seen several players with the cue under the right side of the chin, which i took to correspond to stick under the right eye. my assumption is that the players without much eye dominance choose one eye or the other and that the left might work better with the fundamental stance of snooker. i see snooker as being much more like sighting a rifle than pool. Viewing the straight pool championship videos from the 60s & 70s i see the camera angle form straight above the table used along side other camera angles. i can not help but feel that the upright stance of those early champions was a hybrid between the rifle sighting and the overhead view. i would like to hear from someone very much in the know about this, since my observations and assumptions could be way off.
 
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