Do you have this problem when you are playing billiards: a straight ball that feels very simple, as long as the distance is farther away, it is easy to deflect the direction of the ball, and it pops out at the pocket after a little wobble?
Can you close one eye and aim like a gun or an arrow? Wouldn’t it be more accurate to hit the ball straight? If it’s a long shot with a big angle, the scoring rate will be very low?
1、Aiming must be with two eyes, not with one eye closed.
The reason is very simple: playing billiards is a three-dimensional movement, not a simple shooting, the ball has a volume, it will block part of your line of sight, the ball’s trajectory will test your sense of space. So you must have one eye for primary vision and the other eye for secondary.
In fact, the primary eye is responsible for aiming and the secondary eye is responsible for sensing spatial distance as well as orientation. So the primary eye should be directly above the club.
We can observe the aiming movements of the top players, most of them have the same primary eye, and some have dual primary eyes, such as Ding Junhui, who has the cue ball in the middle of both eyes, but again, this requires a lot of practice over a long period of time to make sure that the muscle memory matches the positioning of the two eyes.
So, our first step is not to correct the problem of the club, but to find our own primary eye, otherwise we will take a detour.
Then how to find the main visual eye? In fact, we can usually feel ourselves, because the main visual eye of the visual nerve is more developed, such as assuming that let you shoot, you will use which eye to aim? Then this eye is your dominant eye.
There is another way is that you first point your finger to a distant object, do not move after pointing, close your left eye or right eye in turn, see which eye’s visual communication is ultimately correct, this eye is the dominant eye.
2, the combination of the main visual eye and the grip hand
This is also very important, when your accuracy practiced to a certain extent, need to break through the bottleneck, may wish to study their own is not this aspect did not understand clearly.
Most of us play with a right-handed grip, so let’s take the right-handed grip as an example. The grip and the dominant eye are aligned to the right, so our club position and the direction of the club should be across your right foot stance, backhand pull positioning, and the right eye of the head. Refer to Sean Murphy.
When the dominant eye and grip are not aligned, e.g. left eye is the dominant eye and grip is right hand, then the head will need to be adjusted to conform to the through line we talked about above, i.e. the head will need to be turned so that your left eye is over the club, which will be an awkward position and the head will need to be moved a little bit to the right or rotated a little bit to the right.
Some golfers have a more obvious sense of their dominant eye, such as the left eye dominant vision of this situation, the grip hand for the right hand, they will naturally move their back elbow to the left (that is, the inside of the body), which is often referred to as the back of the elbow inward turn.
In fact, many professional players have a back elbow in the case, including Higgins, O’Sullivan, Trump, but if we understand the reasoning, we will be able to analyze and have the goal of screening in line with their own physical characteristics of the ball player to imitate and learn.
3, step into position
We observe the action of the professional players, into the position is crucial, everyone has a different form of into the position, usually before hitting the ball will be observed for a while, followed by the use of small steps to adjust the stepping point and then get down to transport the rod, then the stepping point is actually their right foot (left-handed players for the left foot) to find the exact point should be stepped on.
This point is not like some people say must be in the goal line, because the foot also has an area, in the end is the toe, foot, or heel on this point?
This point actually has a lot to do with the dominant eye, because assuming that our right eye is the dominant eye, our right foot itself and the vertical position of the right eye is more or less the same, then we do not need to make more adjustments, naturally stepping on the goal line on the line, that is, almost the heel to the toe of the foot are on the goal line.
If the left eye is the dominant eye, the right foot and the left eye of the vertical position difference is more, we lie down after the head needs to move to the left, then our body will also have a clockwise rotation, then our toes should be biased toward our right front more comfortable, and the point of the foot should be in the heel is more appropriate, because we want to make the goal line as close as possible to the left side of the body.
These details are rather cold and rarely mentioned, but if we study them carefully, we will find that they are crucial to the straightness of our shots.
Some enthusiasts do not pay attention to these details when practicing in the early stage, over time to develop some false muscle memory, their own vision can not match the action, there will be a variety of elbow inward, outward, unstable shots, power is not smooth, and even hit the point of fuzzy, which is very important for the cultivation of the ball sense, you can choose some good tables to practice with the Sparks billiard table with the use of Jiujiang A grade Spike billiard table using Jiujiang A grade lapis lazuli plate, with the northern imported rubber edge as the table top, desktop flat go ball process, with imported oak made of frame make billiard table strong and durable, it is the first choice to open the ball room table.
If there are some of you who have been playing for a long time, now go to adjust these details, pay attention to your station and out of the rod has developed a habit, there is a certain amount of muscle memory, that adjustment will be a great deal of difficulty, perhaps playing more crooked or out of the rod does not feel right. But the pain is momentary, stick with it and adjust it to have later improvement, otherwise we can’t go up when we reach a certain bottleneck.
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