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Hi,
I am new to the wonderful world of Snooker! Which unfortunately means my game is very very poor. I've not given up hope though and aim to spend as much time on the table practising as possible (Just back now!).
One problem I am having is with sighting. I have read all of the guides online and I believe my left eye is my "master eye" and tried to play with this... Still wasn't really much of an improvement.
I then noticed that I was getting almost "double vision".
I wear glasses for day to day activities. My eyes are generally okay short distances however the length of the snooker table and beyond I can still see but not very focussed (Balls are very fuzzy!). I found when I was going down for a shot I would find myself flicking between looking through the glasses and over the glasses (When moving from cue ball to object ball). In some cases if it was at the position where the frames are I'd literally see double. To resolve this I was having to physically lift my head mid-shot. Surely this is not a good method to apply here?
Due to being new to snooker I've no idea how well I'll take to the game and hence I do not want to spend too much resolving this (After all, I'm sure that 99% of the problem with my game is *me* and not my glasses!)... Therefore some of the recommendations I've found such as a laser eye sugery and contact lenses are not an option.
Is there anything else that I should consider, which others have used with success? Any other tactics to try and avoid this problem? I tried playing without my glasses for a few shots earlier and whilst I felt a little more comfortable at the cue ball, my lack of focus everywhere else made it impossible.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
I am new to the wonderful world of Snooker! Which unfortunately means my game is very very poor. I've not given up hope though and aim to spend as much time on the table practising as possible (Just back now!).
One problem I am having is with sighting. I have read all of the guides online and I believe my left eye is my "master eye" and tried to play with this... Still wasn't really much of an improvement.
I then noticed that I was getting almost "double vision".
I wear glasses for day to day activities. My eyes are generally okay short distances however the length of the snooker table and beyond I can still see but not very focussed (Balls are very fuzzy!). I found when I was going down for a shot I would find myself flicking between looking through the glasses and over the glasses (When moving from cue ball to object ball). In some cases if it was at the position where the frames are I'd literally see double. To resolve this I was having to physically lift my head mid-shot. Surely this is not a good method to apply here?
Due to being new to snooker I've no idea how well I'll take to the game and hence I do not want to spend too much resolving this (After all, I'm sure that 99% of the problem with my game is *me* and not my glasses!)... Therefore some of the recommendations I've found such as a laser eye sugery and contact lenses are not an option.
Is there anything else that I should consider, which others have used with success? Any other tactics to try and avoid this problem? I tried playing without my glasses for a few shots earlier and whilst I felt a little more comfortable at the cue ball, my lack of focus everywhere else made it impossible.
Any ideas?
Cheers.
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