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Re: Guns: Hand/eye cross-dominance. Problems, solutions, traits?
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As errors are far more likely to happen with my right side, it's a matter of which error is more tolerable; falling over or missing a kick. I haven't running broad jumped in decades, so I honestly don't know how I would do it most comfortably.
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My motor cortex on the right hemisphere is second-rate (shoulda kept the receipt) which means my left everything is weak, clumsy, and generally junk. Not "I'm right handed" junk, but "physio for five years" junk. I swam in tight counter-clockwise circles until I finished physio because my right arm and leg were so much stronger, and even had trouble walking in straight lines (I still drift to the left, but it's not so much a conscious struggle to stay on a sidewalk any more). The only exceptions are places where injuries have left my right side worse in specific ways - my right ACL is dodgy, so when getting up from a kneeling position I put my weight on my left foot first, for instance.
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Re: Guns: Hand/eye cross-dominance. Problems, solutions, traits?
I kick a football (non-US version) with my right, I have trained up my left to do it as well. I still have a more powerful and accurate shot with my right, but if the ball happens to fall so that my left is in a better position I'll use my left. I mostly jump off my right one, but have no problem doing so with my left. Ditto for landing.
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At least it's possible, if awkward, to use my left leg. Doing anything with my right hand when not intensely concentrating on it will end in disaster.
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what i find works best is to find a distinctly visible fixed vertical object the further the better. Then hold your index finger strait up at arms length in line with the object so that your finger obstructs the lower part of the object but you see it over the top of your finger. Next blink both eyes several times until you can blink and not have your perspective jump. Then close one eye. Optionally test you can still blink without a jump and Try close just the other. If you did it correctly and the object is thin then one eye will be able to see the whole object and the other will see the finger in the way. Whichever eye your finger blocks is your dominant eye. otherwise whichever eye has a radical shift in position of the object relative to your finger is the non dominant one. |
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02-08-2015, 09:37 PM | #27 | |
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What I do notice is that unless I'm using a fairly powerful scope (and thus the images are very different) I need to close my strong eye if I'm aiming with the weak eye. Also, I'm crap at traditional-style shotgun shooting, as that means fast shots at moving targets and you really need both eyes open, so I tend to superimpose the sight (seen with the weak, left, eye) onto the view from my strong, right, eye and thus miss by a large margin. A quirk penalty to unaimed shots with a shotgun is about the only penalty I think reasonable for cross-dominance, and I expect it's possible to train out of it with enough practice. Note, this only applies if you have both eyes - a one-eyed person doesn't have a dominance issue. What they might have is a problem having to learn to shoot wrong-handed because they can't use the sights on a rifle due to missing the eye they used to use and thus having to shoot other-handed.
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