Dominant eye

[mchpddl1]

Hi all,

I want to understand more of dominat eye effect.

I have found out my dominat eye is left eye, by point my finger tip at a point at a long distance 5m away.

But when an object is near, such as when aiming at a cue ball before hitting, does dominat eye actually contribute to off-centre striking? i cannot understand it. i can understand that the oject ball might not be where i thought because of dominat eye. Is it because of this, my brain automatically adjusts my cue tip to hit off-centre to correct it?

[keith auld]

You are not alone with this problem - the great Joe Davis was very 'one eyed' as he says in his book 'How I Play Snooker' and he says that although he cued on a line down from his left eye along the cue, he always believed in getting his head right down on the cue. He also deals with the 'dominant eye theory' and explains how to work out which is your dominant eye. The theory is that you clasp your hands together in front of your at full arms length and point your 2 clasped index fingers at a ball at the other end of the table - focusing on it with both eyes open - then close each eye in turn and one eye will stay in line with the ball (ie the dominant eye) and the other will show the ball to the left or right of the pointed fingers. Joe Davis said you should then cue along your chin favouring the side of the dominant eye. Personally unless you have a stigmatism, cueing through the centre of your chin seems to be your best bet and of course if you have an eye test that will also tell you which eye needs correcting more than the other. The point that you raise about striking off centre is often caused by 'natural side' - you tend to see this when a left handed player plays a pink off its spot to the right hand middle pocket and alternatively a right handed player doing the same to the left middle - looking towards the baulk end. I think lots of practise, believing you angles are right at 1st sight and not continually adjusting, will see you ok

[Strickimicki]

There's been so much written about this in other threads you should have a look around the sight here.

I've also this problem but I'm not sure I had it before I started showing interest in it (I hope you can follow that)

As to that what you said Kieth, I'm not quiet sure what your getting at! Sorry.

Believe in yourself at all times!

Make sure you are cueing straight (pink of its spot into the top pockets follow through with the white, it should land in the same pocket) when you can do that 10 out of ten times go on to blue from its spot follow through with the white into the top pockets.

If you can do this all with proficiency you are cueing straight and don't worry about your sighting!

[keith auld]

I'm not an authority at this and certainly no coach - I was just copying what Joe Davis says in his book about the dominant eye and natural side

[poolqjunkie]

I was told we use one eye for far object and one for close object. Everything that we see is an overlapping image of the two images from our two eyes.
I believe our brain will automatically adjust what we see and process it, but I could be wrong.
If you can pot to the right as well as you can pot to the left pocket, then I thin k you need not worry too much.

[mchpddl1]

Thanks for your opinions.

Now i am mxing both normal centre eyed and left eyed approach, seems to work.

Some shote i use left eye (cue on left chin), and some shots i use centre chin.

Personally if i cue correctly with left chin; i get 90% of pots. A great improvement.

[Shaggy365]

The person that I remember with this condition was a pro called Graham Miles. Here's his Wiki entry that describes how he used to cue.

Tried to find a picture of him cueing, but can't. Sorry.