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[cazmac1]

I never said he didn’t have a dominant eye, I just asked how he came to this conclusion. I might be right of base here but I was always taught that the way to determine if you have dominant eye, was to get down and address the que ball as to play a shot, then close one eye and look at where your cue is aiming, then close the other eye and see where you’re aiming. If you aim at the centre of the cue ball your sighting is correct and no adjustment is necessary. If not you have to adjust your stance to suit.
Is this not correct method of determining a dominate eye? It doesn’t make sense to say that because I read some letters of a chart in opticians and was told that one eye was dominant over the over that this would translate into your stance. In an opticians you are looking forward with your head level. When in the stance position you are bending down with your head raise and at angle to your body your eyes are also raised and at angle.

[Jonny]

I never said he didn’t have a dominant eye, I just asked how he came to this conclusion. I might be right of base here but I was always taught that the way to determine if you have dominant eye, was to get down and address the que ball as to play a shot, then close one eye and look at where your cue is aiming, then close the other eye and see where you’re aiming. If you aim at the centre of the cue ball your sighting is correct and no adjustment is necessary. If not you have to adjust your stance to suit.
Is this not correct method of determining a dominate eye? It doesn’t make sense to say that because I read some letters of a chart in opticians and was told that one eye was dominant over the over that this would translate into your stance. In an opticians you are looking forward with your head level. When in the stance position you are bending down with your head raise and at angle to your body your eyes are also raised and at angle.

Well i posted a couple of things up from wiki OP said that he used the first one to determine which eye was dominant. As you can see on that wiki article , there are numerous ways to test your dominant eye and maybe your technique works, but that only shows that you can use more than one technique as a test.

However, you were still adamant that he had not worked out that he was left eye dominant or even any eye dominant

Secondly, no matter what position your head is in, your eyes still work the same way :S Just because my knees are bent and my head is no longer at seating position, doesn't mean my eyes suddenly go from 20/20 to 15/15 (or however these numbers work). If your logic is true and our eyes "change" when our heads are at different levels, then evolution has truly ****ed up

[cazmac1]

I don't think any of your methods involved a que?
I think this is going nowhere now, so lets agree to disagree.

[Jonny]

I don't think any of your methods involved a que?
I think this is going nowhere now, so lets agree to disagree.

lol fair enough.....

but eye dominance has got nothing to do with the existence of a cue...

[Malachi-b]

If I'm down on the shot and aiming at what I see as the the middle of the ball then raise my head and see that I am actually aiming middle doesn't that mean it's fine? I just done it now got down closed each eye and it seemed like I was aiming middle both times but at an angle

[cazmac1]

If I'm down on the shot and aiming at what I see as the the middle of the ball then raise my head and see that I am actually aiming middle doesn't that mean it's fine? I just done it now got down closed each eye and it seemed like I was aiming middle both times but at an angle

If you aim is dead centre, then you are indeed left eye dominant I wouldn't worry about the cue shaft too much, It's a bit of an optical illusion. A bit like looking a two parallel lines on a piece of paper. Does this mean where friends Now

[Malachi-b]

recently though I had to change where I was aiming as where I thought was middle was actually right hand side so what does this mean I know that now it's center but why before was I aiming to the right it could be to do with my sight

[cazmac1]

It could be any number of things, See my post on cuing straight. There is quite a lot of feed back on this prob.

[RGCirencester]

Just looking at your vid after your stance post, and sometimes you address the middle of the white, change your mind and then move the cue to the very bottom of the white. You should decide the shot you are going for while you are standing, if you address the middle of the white and then change your mind get back up and start again

[Giggity1984]

www.azbilliards.com/poolshrink/column9.cfm

Don't know if this is still an active link, will have to check at lunch. Like suggested in some posts above, I believe it doesn't really matter which eye is dominant. I would say just play what's comfortable. I'm right eye dominant but play with my cue centre chin. I can also play with it under my left eye to a reasonable standard, but have never had any success in cueing under the "correct" eye.

Do what's natural and don't force it too much.

[checkSide]

Ok I am going to post my observations, because I think I understand what cazmac1 is trying to say.

I am right eye dominant. When I am down on a dead straight shot the balls line up perfectly in my vision with my cue around centre chin. But if I line the cue up straight through this "perfect view of the balls", it is in reality coming across the line from right to left.
If I then cue under my right eye, the cue looks perfectly straight through the cueball, but the balls of straight pot do not line up correctly in my vision.

Therefore it much more complicated than just eye dominance. You have to come to terms with the illusion a cue creates in your vision.

What cazmac1 is trying to say is, you need to line up your cue on what you know is the straight line, not what your eyes are telling you. i.e. Line up the balls of the shot correctly in your vision, but place your cue on what you know (through experience) is the straight line through that 'vision' of the shot.

[C-J]

What cazmac1 is trying to say is, you need to line up your cue on what you know is the straight line, not what your eyes are telling you. i.e. Line up the balls of the shot correctly in your vision, but place your cue on what you know (through experience) is the straight line through that 'vision' of the shot.

Therefor you need a preshot routine that you can trust.

[snookerfan91]

Every video you always seem so low on the cueball.