Playing with glasses?

[Viktortheman]

I'm wondering if there are any advantages/disadvantages with playing with glasses? I've bought a nice pair of glasses and I feel that I play better with them. I don't see better, but I play better. Is the issue with playing with glasses individual opinion or does the glasses make your concentration worse? Like, does the glasses minimize your sight?

[RocketRoy1983]

I need glasses in everyday life but dont and never haved wear them. I too have wondered about them so am looking forward to hearing from people with knowledge on this.

[noel]

I need glasses in everyday life but dont and never haved wear them. I too have wondered about them so am looking forward to hearing from people with knowledge on this.

Hey RR.
I am over 50.
I wear lenses for distance (near-sighted) and, like most people over 40, lenses for reading (far-sighted).
For playing snooker I use reading glasses to sight on the cue ball and look over the lenses to sight on a very fuzzy object ball anything over 3 feet away.
On Sunday I practiced with Cliff Thorburn.
He lent me his "Dennis Taylor"-type progressive lenses - his prescription is almost perfect for me... I was ASTOUNDED by how different and IMPROVED my snooker sighting was! Sadly, it is Christmas-time. Sometime in the New Year I will get a pair. YES! Cliff WATCH OUT!


=o)

Noel

[centurion]

Hi there,

I use soft contact lenses for playing.I went through may different types and the CibaVision Air Optix ones are the best I found. They are monthly ones but I now use them for almost a year.
And yes, there is a massive difference in sighting when you have even a low prescription!

[RocketRoy1983]

Hey Noel thanks for the reply and say Hi to Cliff from me and us all in London!

[noel]

Hey Noel thanks for the reply and say Hi to Cliff from me and us all in London!

Will do mate.

=o)

Noel

[Andy911]

Re specs
If you are short sighted they can be a god send
If you can't see clearly up the length of the table to sight then your in big trouble
specs can really help to put that right.
If you are playing a often get some
I remember when i first got mine in the 80's winning 30 or so matches on the trot in my local league's despite the comments LOL
I Knew i needed them after losing some consistancy on long shots
its only when i looked up the table with my specs on that i realised just how much my eye'e were affected and although the balls appear smaller they are clear and not cloudy.
your eye'e may have adjusted to the cloudy like appearance of the object ball and you may think that you are ok, but until you look up the table with specs on and evaluate the overall effect you will not really know.

[steedee]

My eyesight is fine but i'm rubbish at snooker, what should i do?

[brettski]

I had laser eye surgury before Christmas and its changed my game completely, the long pots I used to miss because of my glasses I now have a good chance of potting. I'd say having played snooker with glasses and now with perfect 20.20 eyesight I see a massive advantage with playing without them.

[pigeonslayer]

I started to have to wear glasses in my late teens, but put off wearing them for playing snooker for as long as i could, as i find it really difficult, i have toscrew my face up in order to see out of them and look too much like Benny Hill than is comfortable.
I have found contact lenses to be the answer (am a bit scared of laser surgery, although friends have had it done).
The only issue i have is to not to forget to put them in - it happened a couple of weeks ago - in my usual rush to get to the match i did not realise i was still wearing my glasses until i got down to break off!! I now make sure i have a couple of pairs of lenses in my cue case.

[brettski]

I have found contact lenses to be the answer

I think thats the right solution I couldn't wear contact lenses due to my eye twitching which is non-existant thanks to the surgury. The other thing that always annoyed me was the line of blurred vision at the top of my glasses that ruined it for me.

[Z-E-N-I-T]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 3. I don't know the exact term but i can't see well on distance. I don't use any lenses. When I line up I look through the glasses but when I get down to the shot I look above the glasses (not through them) which makes the balls a little blurry, especially when playing long balls. First I had a hard time but now I kind of got used to it.

[brettski]

I've been wearing glasses since I was 3. I don't know the exact term but i can't see well on distance. I don't use any lenses. When I line up I look through the glasses but when I get down to the shot I look above the glasses (not through them) which makes the balls a little blurry, especially when playing long balls. First I had a hard time but now I kind of got used to it.

Strange thing is I got used to it too, so when I could see properly it was so strange, I'm still getting used to it. Keep your glasses though u'll play alot better being more comfortable how you play now.

[submarine]

Like Noel I am looking over my glasses for shots more than 3 feet away, this makes me keep my head up on a shot and not down on the cue. Never sure whether to sacrifice the vision or the head position!

[brettski]

Like Noel I am looking over my glasses for shots more than 3 feet away, this makes me keep my head up on a shot and not down on the cue. Never sure whether to sacrifice the vision or the head position!

I had the same problem, I found keeping my head up gave me a better chance of potting although it took my attension away from the cue ball and I would miscue. In the end I found the best solution for me at that time was to lift my head and check the shot then lower my head to the cue and cue it normally. At that time my long potting really improved but its not foced to be related to that technique and more likely to do with practice.