vision question, dominant eye/binocular?

ShootingArts

ShootingArts

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Well, advancing years seem to have nailed me again. I know I am getting far sighted and I simply don't see as sharply as I once did. However I seem to have added an ugly new turn to the vision thing lately.

My dominant eye never has been strongly dominant but that hasn't kept me from playing decent pool and winning rapid fire pistol competitions. However recently I am finding that unless I concentrate on maintaining strong eye dominance to the exclusion of anything else or even simply relaxing and letting the shot happen, I am swapping back and forth between using binocular vision and strong eye dominance to aim, maybe mostly depending on the distance to the object ball. I missed some shots today that Ray Charles would be embarrassed to admit he missed if he were still alive; ha, he would be embarrassed to miss them now even if he is dead and blind!

I need to either strengthen the strong eye dominance or learn to use binocular vision all of the time. I welcome any suggestions towards achieving either goal and suggestions as to which would be better long term.

Thanks,
Hu
 
ShootingArts said:
Well, advancing years seem to have nailed me again. I know I am getting far sighted and I simply don't see as sharply as I once did. However I seem to have added an ugly new turn to the vision thing lately.

My dominant eye never has been strongly dominant but that hasn't kept me from playing decent pool and winning rapid fire pistol competitions. However recently I am finding that unless I concentrate on maintaining strong eye dominance to the exclusion of anything else or even simply relaxing and letting the shot happen, I am swapping back and forth between using binocular vision and strong eye dominance to aim, maybe mostly depending on the distance to the object ball. I missed some shots today that Ray Charles would be embarrassed to admit he missed if he were still alive; ha, he would be embarrassed to miss them now even if he is dead and blind!

I need to either strengthen the strong eye dominance or learn to use binocular vision all of the time. I welcome any suggestions towards achieving either goal and suggestions as to which would be better long term.

Thanks,
Hu
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Hu, I know this may seem like a ridiculously simple solution but honestly it really is that simple. Eye-dominance or binocular vision is almost irrelevant when it comes to actual execution. It's nice to understand how things work so that you know which catagory you fall under but the results are always the same. The target should appear centered in your line of vision whether you're using your left-eye, right-eye or both eyes.

From my own observations, I've found that many female players have binocular vision. Many lefties have cross-eye dominance and for the most part, most that have a single-eye dominance are right-eye dominant. This information helps the observer understand why the shooter is aligned the way they are. It is never part of their conscious thought. They simply center themselves in whatever manner makes them feel centered.
 
alignment is what was hosed

Jude,

I fully agree that any consistent way of seeing things is fine. However it seemed as though I was not seeing the way I normally do, or going back and forth between two different perspectives.

Not sure what was going on yesterday but another example was that my racks were consistently twisted almost an inch to the right in the rear when this was going on. Not normally a problem after racking for thirty-five years. The table was recently recovered and a reference pencil line was visible from the center diamond on the short rail to the dot or I would have swore my racks were straight. When I aligned the balls properly, the rack then appeared to be twisted to the left. I usually look down table and rack a decent rack without any real effort at alignment. Just all in all a very strange day and it did seem related to vision.

Hu


Jude Rosenstock said:
Hu, I know this may seem like a ridiculously simple solution but honestly it really is that simple. Eye-dominance or binocular vision is almost irrelevant when it comes to actual execution. It's nice to understand how things work so that you know which catagory you fall under but the results are always the same. The target should appear centered in your line of vision whether you're using your left-eye, right-eye or both eyes.

From my own observations, I've found that many female players have binocular vision. Many lefties have cross-eye dominance and for the most part, most that have a single-eye dominance are right-eye dominant. This information helps the observer understand why the shooter is aligned the way they are. It is never part of their conscious thought. They simply center themselves in whatever manner makes them feel centered.
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I have a similar problem

I have an eye condition known as Central Cirrus Corioretinopathy (sp?). Bottom line is that I have water that leaks between my cornea and my retina. It’s like tiny blisters in certain spots of my vision. It causes straight lines to appear wavy.

Here's a test, take a sheet of gridlined paper. Focus on the center point of the paper. If the straight lines look wavy when you cover one eye, then you may have the same condition. Also, focus on that center point and turn your head slightly to the left and right to see if the waves appear. The blisters can be on sides of your vision. Mine happen to be towards center.

So, I agree with pdcue. If you haven't done so already, you probably should have your eyes examined by a specialist. A general eye doctor can miss many of the special eye conditions that come up.

This messed with my game for a while, but your mind will compensate. I'm shooting as good or better now than ever (the extra practice to overcome this problem helped my game the most - IMHO).

Best of luck!
 
vision

I play pool very well and my eyes are really bad, that cant fix my bad one which is 70/20 and the other is 20/20 but i dont have any depth perseption.
 
Thanks guys

Thanks everyone,

I am looking for a good eye doctor right now. Glad to know what some of the things to look for are and glad to be able to do some home testing. One of my medications mentions it can cause vision problems but I have been taking it for years so I wouldn't think it was the cause for a recent change.

Speaking of weirdness, I shot on a table this morning and it seemed very tiny. I haven't shot on a little barbox three times in the last few decades and it sure looked funny. I shot funny too. Hopefully the handicap tourney director was paying attention, my ranking on a barbox should be somewhere between .00025 and -12 if I try a tournament on them.

Hu
 
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