the long lost chicken aiming system
OK, I'll grant this is the main forum but the chicken aiming system isn't actually about aiming but about seeing better. Unlike many posters in this thread I have long found this quirk interesting and believe it might have an impact on seeing to aim properly.
Back a few years or so ago I was seriously into outdoor photography. Down here in the swamps, wetlands, and waterways of south Louisiana that meant I spent a lot of time observing and taking pictures of water birds. One thing I noticed is that often before making a pinpoint strike, especially when striking deep under water, they often moved their entire head from side to side effectively widening the distance between their eyes. The old mechanical range finders were more accurate the more distance there was between the lenses so some were eight or twelve feet long. I suspected this head movement worked in a similar manner helping the birds better pinpoint exactly where the target was at.
Mostly being silly I tried moving my head back and forth like the birds when I was trying to line up tough shots. Much to my surprise it did help me determine exactly how to hit an object ball when looking at it from behind the cue ball. i dubbed it the chicken aiming system since I refer to most birds as chickens much of the time but chickens also use head movement to calibrate their aim sometimes.
Does moving our two monocular "blind spots" around so that we see the entire target with binocular vision help? I don't know but I do know I pocketed more balls when I used the chicken aiming system.
I guess I need to give it a fancier name, wrap a bunch of arcane information around it, and burn a DVD. For starters I guess I'll rename it the eagle aiming system!
Hu
OK, I'll grant this is the main forum but the chicken aiming system isn't actually about aiming but about seeing better. Unlike many posters in this thread I have long found this quirk interesting and believe it might have an impact on seeing to aim properly.
Back a few years or so ago I was seriously into outdoor photography. Down here in the swamps, wetlands, and waterways of south Louisiana that meant I spent a lot of time observing and taking pictures of water birds. One thing I noticed is that often before making a pinpoint strike, especially when striking deep under water, they often moved their entire head from side to side effectively widening the distance between their eyes. The old mechanical range finders were more accurate the more distance there was between the lenses so some were eight or twelve feet long. I suspected this head movement worked in a similar manner helping the birds better pinpoint exactly where the target was at.
Mostly being silly I tried moving my head back and forth like the birds when I was trying to line up tough shots. Much to my surprise it did help me determine exactly how to hit an object ball when looking at it from behind the cue ball. i dubbed it the chicken aiming system since I refer to most birds as chickens much of the time but chickens also use head movement to calibrate their aim sometimes.
Does moving our two monocular "blind spots" around so that we see the entire target with binocular vision help? I don't know but I do know I pocketed more balls when I used the chicken aiming system.
I guess I need to give it a fancier name, wrap a bunch of arcane information around it, and burn a DVD. For starters I guess I'll rename it the eagle aiming system!
Hu