WEBVTT

1
00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.000
The second key to starting the ball online is having proper visual alignment.

2
00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.760
There's one general thing that we need to do, we have to figure out which eye

3
00:00:08.760 --> 00:00:10.000
dominance you are.

4
00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.140
And then once we know which eye dominance you are, we can go ahead and fine

5
00:00:13.140 --> 00:00:17.000
tune your visual alignment depending on which one you are.

6
00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:19.000
So I'm going to use a couple terms here.

7
00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:22.110
The first one is going to be same side and the second one is going to be cross

8
00:00:22.110 --> 00:00:23.000
side dominant.

9
00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:28.600
Same side would be I am right handed, I play golf right handed, and I am right

10
00:00:28.600 --> 00:00:30.000
eye dominant.

11
00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.430
I'm going to teach you how to determine which dominance you are in case you don

12
00:00:33.430 --> 00:00:34.000
't know in a second.

13
00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:37.000
But that is same side where it's right right.

14
00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:41.000
Cross dominance would be if I am right handed but I am left eye dominant.

15
00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:45.200
And that's said to have an advantage in golf, specifically from the short games

16
00:00:45.200 --> 00:00:46.000
point of view.

17
00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:51.410
And part of that is because if this is my dominant eye, I can stay in my golf

18
00:00:51.410 --> 00:00:52.000
posture

19
00:00:52.000 --> 00:00:55.000
and I can look at the target without really moving my head a whole lot.

20
00:00:55.000 --> 00:00:59.220
Where if this is my dominant eye, which mine is, for me to see the target, my

21
00:00:59.220 --> 00:01:01.000
head is going to have to move a whole lot

22
00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.000
so that this eye has the proper feel of vision.

23
00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:09.000
First, let's just teach you how to figure out which eye dominance you are.

24
00:01:09.000 --> 00:01:11.000
So there's two ways to do it.

25
00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.530
If you have no friends, you're single, you're alone, and you got nobody who can

26
00:01:15.530 --> 00:01:17.000
double check this for you,

27
00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:21.000
you can form a diamond like so and look at an object in the distance.

28
00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:25.640
And when you close one eye versus closing the other, the object that you're

29
00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:27.000
looking at will jump

30
00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.000
dependent on which eye you close.

31
00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:33.000
When the object moves, that is your non-dominant eye.

32
00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:37.000
But again, that's a little bit trickier than what I think is the simplest way,

33
00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.760
which is if you make two okay signs and overlaps, you got kind of one little

34
00:01:40.760 --> 00:01:42.000
circle.

35
00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:46.880
And you tell someone, "I'm going to hold this at arms reach, and I'm going to

36
00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:48.000
look at your nose."

37
00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000
What you'll do is, if I hold this up so that I can see the camera,

38
00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.000
and you will see probably that you can see my right eye.

39
00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:58.360
That's because I'm right eye dominant, and that's the one that I need in order

40
00:01:58.360 --> 00:02:00.000
to see the camera properly.

41
00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:04.560
It would feel very weird for, yeah, I can't even get it to where it sets up

42
00:02:04.560 --> 00:02:07.000
there, because I'm very right eye dominant.

43
00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:11.170
And once you know which eye is your dominant eye, then you can start making

44
00:02:11.170 --> 00:02:12.000
adjustments.

45
00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:18.190
Because if you're left eye dominant, you're going to have to make the following

46
00:02:18.190 --> 00:02:19.000
adjustments.

47
00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:23.380
You're going to tend to favor being more square with both your body and your

48
00:02:23.380 --> 00:02:24.000
feet.

49
00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:27.000
And the ball is going to be a little bit more forward in your stance.

50
00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:31.310
If you are going to be right eye dominant and play golf right handed like

51
00:02:31.310 --> 00:02:33.000
myself, which is same side dominant,

52
00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:37.080
you're going to tend to favor a little bit more open stance with your feet and

53
00:02:37.080 --> 00:02:38.000
playing the ball more further back.

54
00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.000
Basically, the ball is going to be closer to your dominant eye.

55
00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:44.550
That's the first place that we're going to do some adjustments, because that

56
00:02:44.550 --> 00:02:48.000
will help us to see the line as straight when it really is straight.

57
00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:52.000
So practice that, figure out which one you are, and then play the next clip

58
00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.000
where we're going to go through how to fine tune your visual alignment.