Ten times better w/ out eyeglasses on this shot

midnightpulp

midnightpulp

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Funny thing happened tonight. In my practice sessions, I usually devote some time to this shot, hitting it around 50 times. Since I've picked up the game again in Nov., I haven't enjoyed any kind of consistency with it. It's a sighting problem that has been hard for me to correct. I aim by matching up the edges of the cueball to object ball, and when the overlap looks good, I fire (guess it's a fractional method).

Ironically, if this shot is at a slight angle, it's much easier to see and make. Futhermore, my aiming has never been better, but on these long straight in shots, I just can't match up the balls. It always looks off to one side or another. Then I took off my glasses, which allowed me to get lower, and the balls matched up perfectly. I made 11 row uncontinued. I quit to come post about it. With my glasses, my best was 5 in a row and 8/10.

Now, I have the worst near-sightedness known to man so I'm not going to shoot like this all the time, but this shows how important sighting and alignment are. The balls looked like fuzzy, watery blobs, about 1.5x larger than their actual size. In short, I couldn't see them for shit, but my vision was just good enough that I could see I was in perfect alignment and I could make the shot with ease. I determined that my small framed glasses caused me to crane my neck upward, which I think forced me out of alignment and caused other sighting problems with these types of shots. I know they have special large framed pool playing glasses, which I'll look into.

To sum it up, has anyone experienced anything similar? And, if any of you wear glasses and feel you don't sight the balls well, try taking off your glasses, which may allow you to get in a better stance and see the balls a whole lot better even though you might not be able to read the number on the ball you're shooting at :D


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I am near sighted. So the big table and long shots are great for me...It's the close together 4 inches and less that are harder for me to see.

The last time I had a talk with my eye doctor about pool he advised me to play without glasses for as long as I could. If it becomes too much of a problem the he says there are lots of options. I have a friend that has special glasses for pool. Pretty big frames. I guess med big and they have a yellow tint. Me I'm saving for lasiks.

Of course. Everybodies eyes are different. Just like people.
 
Ltldebbie said:
I am near sighted. So the big table and long shots are great for me...It's the close together 4 inches and less that are harder for me to see.

The last time I had a talk with my eye doctor about pool he advised me to play without glasses for as long as I could. If it becomes too much of a problem the he says there are lots of options. I have a friend that has special glasses for pool. Pretty big frames. I guess med big and they have a yellow tint. Me I'm saving for lasiks.

Of course. Everybodies eyes are different. Just like people.
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Hi Debbie. Check your PMs.

Anyhow, you'd be far-sighted if you can see long shots clearly and near-shots are blurry. I can read super small print without glasses, but the TV is a blur even if I'm only a few feet away.

But yeah, play without glasses as much as you can. Until today, I underestimated how having the wrong kind of glasses can affect your game.
 
midnightpulp said:
Funny thing happened tonight. In my practice sessions, I usually devote some time to this shot, hitting it around 50 times. Since I've picked up the game again in Nov., I haven't enjoyed any kind of consistency with it. It's a sighting problem that has been hard for me to correct. I aim by matching up the edges of the cueball to object ball, and when the overlap looks good, I fire (guess it's a fractional method).

Ironically, if this shot is at a slight angle, it's much easier to see and make. Futhermore, my aiming has never been better, but on these long straight in shots, I just can't match up the balls. It always looks off to one side or another. Then I took off my glasses, which allowed me to get lower, and the balls matched up perfectly. I made 11 row uncontinued. I quit to come post about it. With my glasses, my best was 5 in a row and 8/10.

Now, I have the worst near-sightedness known to man so I'm not going to shoot like this all the time, but this shows how important sighting and alignment are. The balls looked like fuzzy, watery blobs, about 1.5x larger than their actual size. In short, I couldn't see them for shit, but my vision was just good enough that I could see I was in perfect alignment and I could make the shot with ease. I determined that my small framed glasses caused me to crane my neck upward, which I think forced me out of alignment and caused other sighting problems with these types of shots. I know they have special large framed pool playing glasses, which I'll look into.

To sum it up, has anyone experienced anything similar? And, if any of you wear glasses and feel you don't sight the balls well, try taking off your glasses, which may allow you to get in a better stance and see the balls a whole lot better even though you might not be able to read the number on the ball you're shooting at :D


I most urgently recommend that you contact the GREAT eye doctor at Lunetterie St-Lambert in Quebec at 450/465-3058.

Sorry I don't recall his name but he developed a FANTASTIC solution that immediately changed my game MUCH for the better.

He has had several rave reviews here and on other forums. Put too simply, he developed what looks like upside down lenses...so that a LARGE portion of the lens surface sits above the eyebrows and creates what I call a WALL OF VISION.

I have tried several other glasses including those from Dycot whose glasses I've used for many years in skeet shooting but nothing really worked for me.

Then on the same kind of recommendation I'm giving you, I ordered a pair that cost only $125 (US) or so and that ROCKED MY WORLD!

The problem with most glasses is that you see the balls in proper focus when you look through them but in your upper peripheral vision...over the top of the lenses, all you see is a blurred mass and it MESSES with your mind.

These glasses solves that problem.

Call the good doctor and chat with him. NICE guy.

And I live in Tennessee and have nothing to do with his practice. Finally he fully guarantees his work. You don't like 'em and he will fix them or give you a refund.

Regards,
Jim
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av84fun said:
midnightpulp said:
Funny thing happened tonight. In my practice sessions, I usually devote some time to this shot, hitting it around 50 times. Since I've picked up the game again in Nov., I haven't enjoyed any kind of consistency with it. It's a sighting problem that has been hard for me to correct. I aim by matching up the edges of the cueball to object ball, and when the overlap looks good, I fire (guess it's a fractional method).

Ironically, if this shot is at a slight angle, it's much easier to see and make. Futhermore, my aiming has never been better, but on these long straight in shots, I just can't match up the balls. It always looks off to one side or another. Then I took off my glasses, which allowed me to get lower, and the balls matched up perfectly. I made 11 row uncontinued. I quit to come post about it. With my glasses, my best was 5 in a row and 8/10.

Now, I have the worst near-sightedness known to man so I'm not going to shoot like this all the time, but this shows how important sighting and alignment are. The balls looked like fuzzy, watery blobs, about 1.5x larger than their actual size. In short, I couldn't see them for shit, but my vision was just good enough that I could see I was in perfect alignment and I could make the shot with ease. I determined that my small framed glasses caused me to crane my neck upward, which I think forced me out of alignment and caused other sighting problems with these types of shots. I know they have special large framed pool playing glasses, which I'll look into.

To sum it up, has anyone experienced anything similar? And, if any of you wear glasses and feel you don't sight the balls well, try taking off your glasses, which may allow you to get in a better stance and see the balls a whole lot better even though you might not be able to read the number on the ball you're shooting at :D


I most urgently recommend that you contact the GREAT eye doctor at Lunetterie St-Lambert in Quebec at 450/465-3058.

Sorry I don't recall his name but he developed a FANTASTIC solution that immediately changed my game MUCH for the better.

He has had several rave reviews here and on other forums. Put too simply, he developed what looks like upside down lenses...so that a LARGE portion of the lens surface sits above the eyebrows and creates what I call a WALL OF VISION.

I have tried several other glasses including those from Dycot whose glasses I've used for many years in skeet shooting but nothing really worked for me.

Then on the same kind of recommendation I'm giving you, I ordered a pair that cost only $125 (US) or so and that ROCKED MY WORLD!

The problem with most glasses is that you see the balls in proper focus when you look through them but in your upper peripheral vision...over the top of the lenses, all you see is a blurred mass and it MESSES with your mind.

These glasses solves that problem.

Call the good doctor and chat with him. NICE guy.

And I live in Tennessee and have nothing to do with his practice. Finally he fully guarantees his work. You don't like 'em and he will fix them or give you a refund.

Regards,
Jim
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I'll def. check those out.

So weird how I can drill this shot without glasses. And again, I'll reiterate, I have terrible, terrible long distance vision. I'm about 4 feet away from the TV and can't read text on the screen. But it was just good enough to line up those blurry blobs and fire em in.

Do you think the craning of the neck causes certain misperceptions?

Other shots, not really a problem with glasses. But yeah, my natural stance has always been lower, chin near the cue, and these "hip" style specs have made me adjust that. Plus, I get bad neckaches at times.
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I'm nearsighted. And I found that I shoot better when I don't wear my glasses.

I found it out when trying to get a game about 6 months ago, the opponent said he'd only shoot me if I took my glasses off.
 
try taking off your glasses, which may allow you to get in a better stance and see the balls a whole lot better even though you might not be able to read the number on the ball you're shooting at
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They have numbers?

pj
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100% the same for me.

midnightpulp said:
Funny thing happened tonight. In my practice sessions, I usually devote some time to this shot, hitting it around 50 times. Since I've picked up the game again in Nov., I haven't enjoyed any kind of consistency with it. It's a sighting problem that has been hard for me to correct. I aim by matching up the edges of the cueball to object ball, and when the overlap looks good, I fire (guess it's a fractional method).

Ironically, if this shot is at a slight angle, it's much easier to see and make. Futhermore, my aiming has never been better, but on these long straight in shots, I just can't match up the balls. It always looks off to one side or another. Then I took off my glasses, which allowed me to get lower, and the balls matched up perfectly. I made 11 row uncontinued. I quit to come post about it. With my glasses, my best was 5 in a row and 8/10.

Now, I have the worst near-sightedness known to man so I'm not going to shoot like this all the time, but this shows how important sighting and alignment are. The balls looked like fuzzy, watery blobs, about 1.5x larger than their actual size. In short, I couldn't see them for shit, but my vision was just good enough that I could see I was in perfect alignment and I could make the shot with ease. I determined that my small framed glasses caused me to crane my neck upward, which I think forced me out of alignment and caused other sighting problems with these types of shots. I know they have special large framed pool playing glasses, which I'll look into.

To sum it up, has anyone experienced anything similar? And, if any of you wear glasses and feel you don't sight the balls well, try taking off your glasses, which may allow you to get in a better stance and see the balls a whole lot better even though you might not be able to read the number on the ball you're shooting at :D


I just got glasses for the first time and I was amazed at how much clearer the balls were to me; however, I got to where I couldn't make more than about four balls in a row after a week of trying to get used to them. It ruined me for the swannee memorial. I took them off and within a couple of weeks I was close to my old form again....
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