can eye glasses be worn playing pool ?
Ravilious
the balls are starting to look blurred, and that has really affected my
game. i have never needed glasses before, but i do now. can pool be
played wearing glasses ? the near balls and far balls have a different
blurr, so i guess the lenses would have to be divided for each distance.
i like the game and don't want to give it up. any information you could
give me would really be appriciated. thank you in advance. ron
AAron M. MATTHEIS
Ravilious (ravi...@delnet.com) wrote:
: game. i have never needed glasses before, but i do now. can pool be
: played wearing glasses ? the near balls and far balls have a different
I play wearing glasses and I do all right. I have never had any problems
caused by my glasses, just problems with my technique. It may take some
getting used to for you though. I've played like this forever.
Aaron
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Yoda
RumpRoast
Yes, I've worn glasses ever since I was a teen. It might be somewhat
of an adjustment for you, since you're just now starting to wear
glasses, but I doubt the adjustment will be any more than other
certain little adjustments you'll make.
Because I'm nearsighted, for long shots, I look through the glass
lenses to line up on the cueball and then look over the glasses at the
object ball and/or pocket.
Again, I don't think glasses will present much of a problem for you,
once you adjust. Good luck, and good shooting!
Cuestick
Hey Aaron,
I can sympathize with your situation. I've worn glasses for a long time now,
and I still consider my poor eyesight to be my greatest handicap at the table.
About three years ago though, I decided to do something about it. I explained
the problem to my eye doctor people at D.O.C., and they came up with a solution.
I took my cue in, and bent over one of their tables like I was going to shoot. She
measured the distances between me, the balls, my eyes, and most of all...she measured
where the focal point of the lense should be located on my glasses.
The inherent problems with glasses and pool are as follows....
1. when you bend over to shoot, unless you have a rubber neck, you are looking through
the lenses with them tilted at an extreme angle. This causes difraction.
2. you are also looking through the top part of the lense, almost never through the center.
And unless you specify where you want the focal point, the manufacturer will put it in
the exact center of the lense.
3. least of all these problems is the glare caused by the overhead lights.
Here's what I ended up doing...I picked out a set of frames that could be bent at the
point where the bows contact the edge of the lense, and the nose piece could be bent
together. That way, they sit higher on my face, and the top of the lense is really
close to my eyebrows, while the bottom has open space because the lenses are tilted out
at the bottom. She ordered some non-glare lenses with a higher focal point. I'm due for
a new prescription soon, and will be changing to a new set of frames made for pistol shooters
called Decot Hy-Wide's. I'm sure you have a D.O.C. somewhere close that can get them.
I used to have contacts for athletics, and tried them for pool for a while, but most of my
playing was in smokey rooms late at night, the dust that rises off the bed of the table was
pretty bad too. After a few times of red-irritated itchy watery eyes, and my opponents
accusing me of breaking down in tears, I realized that contacts would not do it.
There are two players around Kalamazoo that got RK surgery to correct their vision, but at
$1500 per eye, and no guarantee of success, glasses don't seem so expensive. And if you think
spending $300 on a pair of glasses just to play pool is unreasonable....how much did you spend
on your cue(s)????
Good luck.
Matt
Billiards Playground
Kalamazoo, MI
Dawn Randall
Aaron,
Wearing glasses to play pool may just be a matter of adjusting to the new
situation. I am legally blind in both eyes ( 20/800 ) and do okay with
pool. My techniques are different and rather comical if I do say so myself
(I shoot with one eye closed), but they work.
Just a thought.
Dawn
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Cuestick <cues...@serv01.net-link.net> wrote in article
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R. Moran
This topic is brought up frequently with people around where I live. I
posted earlier about it and it went something like this:
One guy had bifocals. He had problems playing pool because he looks
through the wrong lens when shooting (upper instead of lower). His
solution? He turned his glasses upside down. Yes he looked stupid, but
he began playing much better.
There are prescriptions that are not bifocals. If glasses are needed
for pool or other, that might be a good way to go. Another is contacts,
although contacts tend to dry out in smoke filled pool halls/bars -- yet
another reason why smoking sucks.
Enough of my soapbox antics. Hope this helped.
On 31 Mar 1997, Savang op wrote:
> well..if any of you people have ever watched snooker before in the
> 80's...you would've seen a guy named dennis taylor..was one of the world's
> top pros in the 80's..he had some custom made glasses where the lens was
> placed with a higher percentage above the handles so that when he bent
> down to cue it would cover his top vision.
> so basically..i don't see why eye glasses cant be worn for pool.
>
> later,
> Kevin (l...@grfn.org)
>
>
> : Cuestick <cues...@serv01.net-link.net> wrote in article