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cross eye dominance

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I struggle with this, I am a righty and left eye dominant and it is causing me issues

lately I have tried angling my entire body to the right(slightly) and moving my head over to try and line my left eye up with my swing and target/line, have had better results, but it doesn't feel right lining up like this to throw straight spare shots or a down and in line

any tips or advice with this?

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After sixty years of right eye dominance I went blind in my right eye and had to change the way I look at the world. I will enjoy the coaches' answers to your question. I can tell you for sure that when you first make most adjustments to your delivery they feel awkward but only sticking with it will yield results.
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I deal with this too. Instead of looking at the arrows, I spot at the dots. Its a lot easier than having to look 15 feet down lane. I have no depth perception so looking too far down lane is almost impossible for me.

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Moving your head slghtly to the right is ok but I don't know about leaning the entire body. You probably need a coach to watch you to see if there is something in your push-away/armswing that is giving you the targeting issues. My problem ended up being that I was wrapping my swimg around my back thus getting out of the four inch swing slot. After the coach pointed this out I no longer had problems hitting my lne consistently.
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brunswickroller wrote:I struggle with this, I am a righty and left eye dominant and it is causing me issues

lately I have tried angling my entire body to the right(slightly) and moving my head over to try and line my left eye up with my swing and target/line, have had better results, but it doesn't feel right lining up like this to throw straight spare shots or a down and in line

any tips or advice with this?

-BR

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I have been blind in my right eye since I was 12 weeks old and have found that my ball angle is always less than what my eye tells me. Ex if I am looking 15 to 5 for my line to the break point the ball usually travels 15 to 8 or so. I just have to remember this and make my moves accordingly, sometimes that means hitting 14 instead, sometimes it means looking 15 to 2 but the ball will be 15 to 5.
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i've read that article, thanks for the link, very interesting indeed

lately I think I have been doing better by turning my head some and lining up my left eye with my target/shoulder/swing, hard to remember to do this 100% of the time, especially when you suck like I do and have to remember and tell yourself to keep head down, follow through LOL, all in good time I guess :mrgreen:
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I worked with a guy one time that was left eye dominate and a right hand player ....He was always 2-3 boards left of where I ask him to hit...he always told me he hit the spot I ask for...we did a little test and found out his problem and compensated by looking 2-3 more boards right of where he wanted to hit and he was always spot on then ....It was a coaching issue not a bowling problem ...We had to get on the same page ....Steve S
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