Moonlight bowling what's your strategy ?

[Tony]

For some reason even before my 25 year layoff I always just looked straight down at the foul line. If I look up even to the arrows I fell all out of balance. I averaged 190+ with a plastic or rubber ball on wood lanes and shot a lot of action in the 70's and 80's the same way...lol Hard habit to break I have tried to look even 2' down the lane and I feel like I am going to fall.


Just an FYI I just renewed my drivers license and looking at the 4th box with both eyes it was empty I covered my right eye and there were letters there... I was amazed and the guy testing said a lot of people see out of 1 eye. It was no big deal to him....Who Knew? lol

Are you saying that you think you might bowl better with one eye closed ! Give it a try, as long as it doesn't cause you to fall down.

[classygranny]

For some reason even before my 25 year layoff I always just looked straight down at the foul line. If I look up even to the arrows I fell all out of balance. I averaged 190+ with a plastic or rubber ball on wood lanes and shot a lot of action in the 70's and 80's the same way...lol Hard habit to break I have tried to look even 2' down the lane and I feel like I am going to fall.


Just an FYI I just renewed my drivers license and looking at the 4th box with both eyes it was empty I covered my right eye and there were letters there... I was amazed and the guy testing said a lot of people see out of 1 eye. It was no big deal to him....Who Knew? lol

Sounds like a bit of monovision - using the dominant eye for distance and the other for close. When I had my last lasik eye surgery done in 2000, I only had my dominant eye done and use it for distance. You have to train your mind to just use the one eye or the other depending on what you're looking at. Some people adapt well, some don't. If you think this is some of what you are experiencing, you can intentionally start looking at distance things with your dominate eye and eventually your mind takes over and you don't even think about it any longer. At times, some people notice a difference in being able to judge distance. Since I was never good at that, it never bothered me. FYI - it did take me awhile to be able to target farther down lane without having accuracy issues.

[Tony]

Sounds like a bit of monovision - using the dominant eye for distance and the other for close. When I had my last lasik eye surgery done in 2000, I only had my dominant eye done and use it for distance. You have to train your mind to just use the one eye or the other depending on what you're looking at. Some people adapt well, some don't. If you think this is some of what you are experiencing, you can intentionally start looking at distance things with your dominate eye and eventually your mind takes over and you don't even think about it any longer. At times, some people notice a difference in being able to judge distance. Since I was never good at that, it never bothered me. FYI - it did take me awhile to be able to target farther down lane without having accuracy issues.

I can attest that the brain can learn some impressive things with vision, I have lens implants the have concentric circles with different gradients of correction and my brain learned to use the correct sections to correct both distance and reading vision, I've had them for 10 years and don't need glasses of any kind, before the surgery I wore bi-focal's and had cataracts.