How to Determine Your Dominant Eye | Archery Lessons

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One of the things that we must do before we start giving you a lesson is to determine your dominant eye. It's very important because some people's dominant eye is their right eye and some people have a dominant eye as their left eye. Most of the time, a right handed person would have a right eye dominance and a left handed person would have a left eye dominance but there are several occasions where that is not true. So we must determine which your dominant eye is regardless of whether you're left handed or right handed.

The way we do it is very simple. We have the person stand in front making an overlap design of the hands with a hole. Then bringing the hole up to the eye, I can look through the hole and see the she is right eye dominant because that's the eye that she's looking at me with and then place the palms down again. Now, some people doubt what I'm telling them and what I'm saying is you only see out of one of your eyes. It's the dominant eye. To prove that, when you do the dominant eye test again, when you are looking at me, I tell the person to close the dominant eye. In this case it would be your right eye. So bring the hole up, close your right eye and I've disappeared out of the hole, because even though you've brought the hole up to my eye with both eyes open, when you close off the dominant eye, that's the eye that's looking through the hole. That's what you're seeing.

With both eyes open, you're going to raise your arms up with the hole focused on the camera, looking through the hole, then close off your dominant eye, your right eye, the camera disappears, and the camera can see that you're closing off your dominant eye. And then come back to resting.

[DManVI]

Make that small hole.
Focus on something inside that hole.
Close your right or left eye.
If what you focused on dissappears then the eye you closed is your dominant eye. This means that its the eye that decides where your focus is.

[WillSnipeForSkittles]

Watched this video to see which one was my shooting eye not really expecting much but was pleasantly surprised by how interesting it was and this technique

[Sylkis]

I see two holes and I don't know which I'm supposed to pick to look through

[VishwaNathGummaRaju]

Al, your test is the best i have come across to determine eye dominance. thank you

[Ser_Gingerbeard]

I'm just starting with archery and i have been training my "bow musceles" for 2 weeks now, but my dominant eye changes every time i do the test...

[snurffff]

1:59 she is looking through right eye. Even though both eyes are open, one eye is on the guy the other is not. If she put her hand to her left and centre it on her left eye, when closing her left eye she would experience the same thing that happened with the right eye.

[TrubeI]

I can See 2 holes The one from my right eye and The one from my left eye

[BlonDevil]

well, I did the test, closed my right eye and couldn't see though the hole, so I moved my arms a bit left and it was magical how I could see though the hole again...

[IFlyAnytime]

It's a bit of a moot topic as long as you're consistently doing the same thing with your eyes every time you aim, and sight-in accordingly left to right. I recommend keeping both eyes open to avoid parallax as much as possible from the dominant eye.

[theznooker]

someone said :
place a bottle on a table, step back and point your finger at it with both
eyes open. now close one eye at a time, the one where your finger is still
pointing at the chalk is your dominant eye

is that correct?
when i close my right eye the object moves, but when i close my left eye the finger is still pointing there
AM I RIGHT EYE OR LEFT EYE DOMINANT?

[Fergesslich]

I am right handed but my dominant eye is left.

That is a little problem with shooting guns for me with both eyes open, but not big of a deal. It is not perfect, but with training you can eliminate most of the disadvantage.

[futurejockey]

I'm right handed with a left dominant eye xD probably because my right eye has slight astigmatism. I was taught to point at something in the distance and then alternate the closing of your eyes. This seems to be a very similar concept.

[GraphixGoddess]

Another way to tell is to do this and then bring your hands into your face - usually you will instinctually pull them in towards the dominant eye.

[Liqweed]

dominant eye on both.. left AND right.. jackpot!

[justpar]

I think the person needs to do all the self testing by forming a triangle with outstretched arms with thumbs and forefingers touching. Find an object and look through the triangle with both eyes. Then close one eye still looking through the triangle and repeating with the other. If the object doesn't move then that's the dominate eye.

[Rysheed]

I think my left eye is my dominant eye because get early in the morning to use the bathroom when cut the light on I keep my right eye closed

[JDDragon]

But the point is to hold your arms out directly in front of you, not at an angle. When your arms are out in that shape directly in front of you, whichever eye is the one that sees through that hole is the dominant eye.

[dolly]

I'm right handed but have am left eye dominant, am I a freak? : P

[richarddiasribeiro]

So... If my dominant eye is the left one, I gotta hold the bow with the right hand?

[NathanLeviFilms]

i just bought a left handed bow because im left handed and i thought i was left eye dominate but doing this test shows that im right eye dominate