You know I know you're 100% correct....
I do NOT agree with Randy and Scott at all!
I struggled for years not knowing why I missed when I had no knowledge about my dominant eye.
I tried to change hundreds of things in my stroke and grip and stance although my error WAS NOT in my stroke/stance/grip etc.
If I knew what I know now I would probably had saved at least 5 years of frustration! And believe me I spent several months 8-10 hours a day- 4-5 days a week training ALONE at the table!
I played years and years adjusting conciously my aim due to experience in order to make the balls on so many shots because I knew I would miss them when I aimed at them in the way I perceived them.
Still I was able to have some success
and run 102 balls in straight pool but my level of play had often a swing between semi pro and total sucker
in the same day and I just did not know why...
I perceived cuts to the left different than cuts to the right before finding my perfect location of my dominant eye!
I played aiming with my right eye my left eye with both eyes... changed the position of my eyes over the cue 20 times.
Today i can just aim like I perceive the shots. My consistency went through the roof.
Finding your perfect location for your vison center / dominant eye is as crucial as a consistent stroke and is often even the reason for stearing as your subconcios is aware that something is wrong!
You^ve got to see it right to do it right-
There are NO COMPROMISES!
There is "no just do it and it will come to you some day" for 90% of the players unless you play 6 hours +x a day for several years.
In case your are not among these lucky 10% you have to work on it- videotape yourself and write down what you observe adjust and do this again and again to get it down!
But when you get it down it is a completely new world!
EKKES
Mr Ekkes bought my Perfect Aim video about 2 or 3 years ago and was elated about what he had learned. I don't know exactly how much he understood about the dominant eye at that time but what he learned from Perfect Aim took it to another level.
Here is one of the conversations we had on the internet. This was sent to my manager and he sent it to me:
Hi there, This just got in from a fellow named Ekkes from Germany that has requested to be set up as a distributor. He has his own pool school and is very well know among the pool world in germany and the surrounding areas over there.
Now enough about me let's start to talk about the important stuff... YOU AND "PERFECT AIM"
1. Congratulations for having figuered out the system and having made the DVD
I orderd the DVD about 10 days ago and had it in the mail on Wednesday. This stuff is hot!
I worked on your system for 8 hours and I got to tell you, that you have done a great job!
Actually my personal aiming system is quite similar but what I didn't figure out before, was the fact that the eye's dominance turn on cut shots. Although I always did it consciously on super thin cut shots along the rail. It is crazy that no one figuered this out before, although it is right in front of your face - just like you said.
his explains why many players have more difficulties with cuts to the left than to the right - or the other way round.
When you are in the zone, your eyes will probably do this automatically- but when you try to shoot shoot under pressure or any other time when you aim consciously you absolutely have to know with which eye you have to aim and where this eye have to be located in relationsip to the cueball and objectball.
Otherwise you have a 50% chance to miss the shot.
This is about as good as it gets. I didn't put the whole e-mail on here for privacy reasons. I get e-mails like this all the time. Most people don't just put the info on AZ billiards and I think it is because they really don't have a reason to do so unless I tell them to put their oppinion on the site to let everyone else know.
Again you can go to the site or sift through the thread. I'm sure you will see plenty. Have a great pool weekend Geno......
Bottom line is once a player has learned Perfect Aim or really knows how this dominant eye works with the brain there is no way you can tell the players that this is a non issue.
Mr Ekkes was already an accomplished player. And a very admired teacher in Germany. He knew exactly what he had when he learned this info.
I've have taken the eye dominance to another level since then. And there is no way when I get done with a student that they would ever think the eye dominance doesn't matter.
The nice thing is Mr Ekkes can continue teaching Perfect Aim with his See system and I can continue teaching Perfect Aim with my Perfect Aim.
If the other teachers don't understand it and don't care about it they just can't teach anyone the most valuable piece of info a player could possibly learn.
If players knew how much this would help their game, not just knowing but knowing how to use it correctly, Mr Ekkes and I would be so busy we wouldn't know what to do.
Who was the Guy that said the world was round????????????????????
Everyone else thought it was flat.........
Nice post there Mr Ekkes and good luck..........
