ok here goes..I bought my wife a new bow (righthanded) We start out at 5 yrds away. She shoots 8 inches to the lefted off it. I move pin to the left. She keeps shooting in same spot. I have pin maxed out and she keeps shooting to the left. I'm stumped. So now i tell her to double check and see what eye is her dominate eye. I do the point the finger at a spot thing and tell her to blink each eye. Well, she can't blink her left eye!! So...we go back out and shoot with a patch on her left eye....and she hits the bullseye!!!...how can we train her to shoot without a patch?...plus even when she covered her eye pointing at an object her finger still moved off it a lil bit ?? When i point at something and blink my dominant eye doesn't move my finger?? Is my wife weird??
Have her keep working at being able to close her left eye ! It took me a while to be able to. She may have to use the patch when shooting until she can close her left eye.
She'll have to shoot with a patch. She's just getting verrrrrryyyy frustrated because she can't close her left eye.
Me neither... There's usually two options in terms of a solution for this challenge. One... you'll hear a lot of suggestions recommending switching her to a left-handed bow at this early a stage in the game. Obviously, there's a couple variables already in the equation in this instance: One, you already have the RH bow. Above and beyond that, I understand what it takes to shoot a bow from your non-dominant side -- and without attempting to come across as sexist -- this may even be more difficult a task than normal since we're working with a female. The other solution, and frankly one that I advocate and often go against the grain in terms of traditional thought processes when discussing this with my peers, is to simply (maybe not so much in this case, eh?) to have the shooter close his or her left eye. While not advocated by some as the ABSOLUTE best way, I've only seen it as a hindrance if someone's trying to reach Olympic-caliber status. In real-world scenarios that I've been around? It's not a detriment at all. I know I'll get some pushback on that, and to each their own... I happen to be right-handed and left-eye dominant, and was fortunate enought at an EXTREMELY early age to be cognizant of the fact and I just learned to close my left eye. Not bragging, nor am I making anything up to simply make a point, but I could take my BB gun before I was a teenager and shoot dragonflys out of the air... I shot more than a handful of swallows out of the air by tracking them and waiting for a pause in their flight pattern... hit my share of running rabbits with a .22 and flattened a bullfrog in his maddening dash down the middle of a low creek with one shot out of a .22 one night while frogging. In MP school, I qualified expert with both the M-16 out to 300 yards and with the pistol. Is that anything out of the ordinary? No... not really for a lot of us that grew up like I did... but the point being, I did it all as a right-hand, left-eye dominant shooter. I believe it's not the disadvantage that some make it out to be. Now... having said all that -- it sounds as if your wife may be facing tougher-than-normal obstacles in not being able to close her left eye. I'm not sure if it's psychological or physiological... but the patch may indeed be what's necessary. If so, don't fret... there are more than a handful of professional-level archers who resort to the same device. Just a thought... Can she squint without her right eye closing?
I am right eye dominant...i shot left handed for 10 yrs....i always closed my right eye....then i caught myself "peaking" after i shot sometimes, which caused me to miss a lil to the right....after lots of reading and really getting into indoor archery i realized its better to shoot with both eyes open...same for hunting, you can track the arrow much better with both eyes open. The string isn't in the way of your other eye (make sense?) Soooo....i been shooting right handed since 1993. My indoor scores went up, and my shooting has never been better. The only thing i could'nt do was pull back the same weight right handed, but going from 65# to 57# meens only pulling them out of the dirt a little easier after they go thru the deer back to the wife...she can blink her right eye....but for some reason she can't blink her left..if she tries she just closes both eyes.....we googled this on the puter and they say this is actually pretty normal. I can blink both...our 2 kids can blink both...but she can't and its driving her crazy. She doesn't want to wear a patch. Say's she'll look funny....i told her the deer won't mind
Don't know if you missed my question at the end... can she at least squint the eye? A lot of archers do this to force their non-dominant eye to take over -- including Hall of Fame bowhunter and world-class archer Randy Ulmer.
yes, she can squint, but both eyes squint, she just can't keep her left eye shut and keep her right eye open at the same time
