Optic Options

[okie]

I have been working on a centered and stationary mellon for a while now. I had questions relating to the eyes. My tendency before was to turn my head so that I was looking directly at the ball with a gaze straight out of their sockets (as opposed to shifting the eye balls independently) This tendency would result in my head (and shoulders to a certain extent "going to" the ball i.e. slightly open shoulder alignment) If my head is centered it stand to reason that the eyes should gaze straight out of the sockets, no? Doing this I find that I cannot look directly at the ball, but rather I have a down the line behind the ball vantage point.

As a younger player I had a tendency to want to move the ball too far back (back then it was a stance thing and not a low point thing) Is it possible that I moved the ball back in my stance to accommodate the natural desire to have a straight gaze at the ball? Does this square with the Jones/Nicklaus tendency to turn the head to their right?

It seems to me if the eye line is not aligned that it will be tougher to see a straight plane line etc. So the closer the ball is to low point the more the ball can only be "looked at" with the left eye?

[dkerby]

An old pro, with a lot of talent, teaches keeping the eyes
focused on the ball but closed eyes during the swing for practice. In other
words the eyes are in the mind and do not move in the socket.
The pro has students working on the idea with great success.
He says that students that just focus on the swing rather than
the actual hit have problems. Women tend to have the "just swing"
problem where as men tend more to " hit something".

I find, as a pilot, that during insturement flying, their has to be a
focus on instruments. The inner ear gives false signals when the
eyes do not have a focus. My opinion is that Kennedy crashed
because he looked down at the fuel selector on final rather than
keeping his eyes focused on the insturments. Then his inner
ear gave him a false signal as to what the aircraft was actually
doing. Moving the eyes around gives the job of balance to the
inner ear which is not reliable in quick body motions.

[okie]

Interesting. I could not relate it to my situation (you did not have the advantage of drawing pictures for me) So should my eyes gaze straight out of the sockets at say...the plane line...or should I shift my focus (within the eye socket) to the ball. All clubs say 7 iron and lower are closer to low point than say my solar plexus. If I want to maintain a straight gaze while looking at the ball I must then turn my head slightly to the left. If my move my head do I not compromise not only my shoulder alignment but also my centered head?

[Dariusz J.]

I guess you should read about eye dominance issue, maybe it will help you somehow.

Cheers