Tilting head and aiming out of one eye

Spimp13 said:
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My question is does anyone else shoot like this with no issues or do you find issues in your stroke that are created due to how you look down the cue this way? I am looking for a bit of discussion on this as IF (and its a huge IF) I ever decided I wanted to teach her, that this could be a road block on other aspects of the stroke.

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I'll relay my experience relative to your question, without turing this into an aiming thread (hopefully :) ). I had gotten Geno's dvd and also had a lesson from him. The short answer, is when my eyes were in the right place "for me", my stroke felt very straight, like it was on rails. When my eyes were not in that place, my stroke felt crooked, and I was unsure of myself. Relating this back to your question, if her head position somehow prevents her eyes from being in the ideal location "for her", her stroke may feel crooked.

Disclaimer, I'm not an instructor, or a good player, and the above is my personal experience. Your's may vary:)
 
Ray Martin does this. And he plays pretty sporty........

I would think that tilting your head would throw your depth perception off, but it works for A LOT of really good players, some Hall of Famers.
 
Spimp13 said:
Now you are just being silly, my wife has the 5 ball for life :grin:

Still looking for other opinions related to fundamental issues or lack of issues due to shooting this way from AZers who shoot like this.
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If she is left eye dominant then she is correct. I must shoot with my left eye on the shot line to get the proper perspective for the shot. If I remember correctly Appleton shoots that way.
 
I had the same issue as your wife. The first time that I ever video taped myself, I noticed the head tilt. If you know Whitey Walker (a very good player), he does the same thing. I straightened my head and brought the cue more in line with my left eye. I believed it helped with "seeing" certain shots. I am left eye dominant but right handed. From personal experience, I believe it was worth changing my head angle in the long run but I still played ok with a crooked head :)

Lol, I just noticed Justin's post above about Whitey.
 
Spimp13 said:
Unfortunately Dale I am going to have to disagree with this statement. Now she may not have an issue with what this topic/thread is about, but there are multiple fundamental issues she has that I could go into invidually...but this isn't meant to be a teaching her thread...from what her eyes do to the set, mini strokes, finish etc...I could go on. I have had lessons on fundamentals (to which mine were horrible to begin with) with Randy G, so I have a pretty good idea on what to look for.
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Randy, and all those other teachers have a subset, at best, of what is
important in fundamentals.

My point was, quite simply, having her left eye over the cue is not
a problem if she is left-eyed. You might want to track down a copy of
Mosconi's instructional video. He could serve as a model for stance, etc
for cross dominant players. Also destroys the myth that dropping your
elbow is a bad thing.

Dale(one eye aming elbow dropper)
 
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dardusm said:
I had the same issue as your wife. The first time that I ever video taped myself, I noticed the head tilt. If you know Whitey Walker (a very good player), he does the same thing. I straightened my head and brought the cue more in line with my left eye. I believed it helped with "seeing" certain shots. I am left eye dominant but right handed. From personal experience, I believe it was worth changing my head angle in the long run but I still played ok with a crooked head :)

Lol, I just noticed Justin's post above about Whitey.
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Yeah Whitey Walker is a great example as I can picture him doing that having seen him shoot. Basically at the end of the day I was just curious on the correlation between how the head is lined up (assuming that for her this is correct) vs other potential fundamental issues. It seems the consensus being that if she sights this way through her left eye correctly, that it shouldn't cause other fundamental issues of the body naturally. The stroke broken down will be a different animal to tackle for her from start to finish. Thanks for the replies everyone, it's a good pool discussion...think we were due for a thread like this from a lot of the threads posted recently :D
 
Well, when ya get all hammered, sometimes you gotta put one foot on the floor.

But you wouldnt know about that, would ya...?

Spimp13 said:
As a disclosure I did not put this in the aiming thread section as I felt it was more of a generic question on what players do. It is not meant to be a debate on what is perceived as being correct, or incorrect on aiming itself and methods associated with it.

A buddy of mine pointed out to which I started paying attention, that my wife tilts her head (forward a bit) and aims purely out of her left eye while shooting. I think that this creates other fundamental issues whether it be her stance, overall stroke from set to finish, or even just the actual aiming at the correct spot to shoot on the object ball.

My question is does anyone else shoot like this with no issues or do you find issues in your stroke that are created due to how you look down the cue this way? I am looking for a bit of discussion on this as IF (and its a huge IF) I ever decided I wanted to teach her, that this could be a road block on other aspects of the stroke.

I don't think that everyone should shoot the same way obviously, but would like opinions on what people think who do this, or have seen this before. Thanks
Matt
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