Your Dominant Eye and Hand

[AdamCaudle]

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Not much choice for me in this poll? Being I lost my right eye in the service to a knife. I would have picked right eye & right hand. But that was 25 years ago and I had to relearn everything using the other eye and my dominate hand.

That's why I have always used the name Cyclops. It's a personal joke for me, where I make fun of my own disability. You have to be able to laugh at yourself and move passed your short comings.

Haha you're epic.

[robertbonson]

^ +1, well done sir.

[Jukeshoe]

I think my eyes are ambidextrous....

[cblack129]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

Okay, I'm an "other". With my finger extended if I focus my eyes on the finger I very obviously see two background lines. If I focus my eyes on the background line I see two fingers. So I can't "line them up".

ERic

The same thing happens to me.

[CwAlbino]

I have the same problem ERicJ has, but I ended up putting both hands up and cupping them to make a small opening dead center of my body. Then move my arm back and forth until I could see the line best, I always centered on the right eye.

Right/right

My putting style is right leg forward, athletic stance. I don't square my chest with the basket like a straddle, right shoulder forward. I'm guessing focusing with the right eye.

[Trashthrasher]

Right Hand - Left Eye... screws up my putting big time. I'm nearly blind in my right eye.

[okiebullgod]

My finger moves from one side of the line to the other when I switch camera lenses. Guess I'm both eye dominant.

[DiscJunkie]

Originally Posted by Ty9339

i know i'm right eye, but my hand is a mystery, i throw a baseball left handed, throw a ultimate frisbee forehand lefthanded, throw and ultimate frisbee back hand right handed, throw my drives right handed back hand and my approaches 20 feet and out right handed and my putts 20 feet and in left handed.

Dude,
That's messed up.
I thought I was bad off. I'm LHBH and RHFH. But I throw LHBH and also putt with my left hand. I can't imagine how you do it.

[DiscJunkie]

Originally Posted by Cyclops

Not much choice for me in this poll? Being I lost my right eye in the service to a knife. I would have picked right eye & right hand. But that was 25 years ago and I had to relearn everything using the other eye and my dominate hand.

That's why I have always used the name Cyclops. It's a personal joke for me, where I make fun of my own disability. You have to be able to laugh at yourself and move passed your short comings.

Played in a tourney this weekend with a guy that had a glass eye.
He's pretty good-natured about it.
I was told that sometimes he'll take it out and wave it around to help him find a lost disc.

[jeverett]

This topic seems to come up a lot more in talking about disc golf than in most other sports.. it's odd. To add to the oddities here, I'm right-eye dominant and right-handed, but drive left-hand backhand, forehand and tomahawk right-handed, and putt right-handed. Another sport where eye dominance comes up a fair amount is archery.. where I draw as if I were left-eye dominant.

What I suspect is that for a lot of us, it's actually a 3D binocular vision issue. While nearly everyone has a single eye that is dominant, there are actually several different methods our brain can use to establish 3D binocular vision. Basically, our brain can either merge the information our two eyes are giving us, or it can suppress the information from one eye if it can't match the two images up. For example, take those 'hidden picture' puzzle books.. the ones where you have to let your eyes relax to be able to see the image. Some people (myself included) cannot do those puzzles at all.

Here is a quick test of 3D binocular vision.. I failed it.

http://www.vision3d.com/frame.html