Archery Eye Dominance VS Aiming Eye | How to Pick Right or Left Handed Archery Equipment

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When shooting archery the first thing to decide is which hand you will shoot with. Usually people shoot the same handed-ness that their eye dominance is. I will explain to you the difference in eye dominance and the eye you aim with in archery.
Should you shoot archery with the same eye that is dominant, or should you use your aiming eye? Possibly it is better to just use your dominant hand and then train your eyes to get used to aiming how you want......
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@VinPetrol420 3 жыл бұрын

I'm right handed left eye dominant and shoot RH. I sight in using right eye. I aim both eyes open and when looking at target I see 2 sights in the foreground. The correct one is the more see through one on the left, kind of like an overlay on what I'm looking at. Works for me. 😊

@randomthoughts2590 2 жыл бұрын

Ah I am starting to wonder if I am the only one who sees double whenever i point at things. My confusion is what got me to this video. WIth the old school method, my eye 'dominance' switches with my stance. Basically, if i was standing square to target, i am definitely right eye dominant. However, if i do the old school test with my RH archery aiming position (left feet front, looking towards left), i am definitely left eye dominant. I am starting to think eye dominance means nothing - obviously the eye closest to the target would be dominant! I have concluded that when i am shooting RH, i am basically aiming with my left eye, and since I see double, as you say, as long as i don't focus, if i want to use my right eye, i just need to use the more 'see through' tip on the left.

@Terlos1 Жыл бұрын

same like me :), i thought i´m the one and only person with that problem xD. I never could shoot LH, i tryed it but the badest beginner in Archery looks way better than me using my Left Hand :P. I shoot barebow and i always see 2 Ips of my arrow and choose the left one so i aim with my right Eye :). At the beginning i close my dominating Eye 1 Second so i´m sure i use the "right" Eye, but now i do it without thinking about. So it is possible to shoot with a Cross Dominance.

@adamkilroe9840 4 жыл бұрын

Thank goodness! Actual good sense being spoken! I'm right handed, but shoot left handed, but right eye dominant, but my aiming eye is my left one. "How can you use your dominant eye to aim with?", simple, close my right eye. Job done. I also have partial colour blindness, and I see colours differently in each eye.

@blainclatworthy5423 4 жыл бұрын

Great Video!! I'm left handed and left eye dominant. I have witnessed new archers who are right handed and left eye dominant. Occasionally, their arrows land significantly left of the target. It is an issue which has existed since the dawn of archery. Eventually, archers will discover what works for them.

@h2obubbli 2 жыл бұрын

Yup Im one of them... and i feel like its too late to switch left handed now, im trying to train my right eye. But for now I have to close my left eye when aiming, not ideal, but also not the end of the world

@eddyg.7761 4 жыл бұрын

at last a solid explanation on this for ever so difficult topic thx !

@3DArchery Жыл бұрын

Thank you so very much for this. I’m a lefty. But always shot right handed and not by choice. In archery, the rest of my family is right handed, so my father was not going to buy me a bow and have my brothers share, so right handed it was. For firearms, when I went in the service, we had no choice, everyone was to be right handed. So again, I just did it. Down the road, I switched the left handed for bows, and can shoot either side with no problems. Firearms I still prefer my right. I always tell people they are placing too much importance on the dominant eye and your video, as awesome as it is, now gives me someone to back it up. Thanks and keep them coming!

@brians9709 2 жыл бұрын

The method I learned for testing eye dominance will work even if you know what you're doing, so you won't be influenced by the idea and automatically bring your hands to a certain eye, creating a biased situation. The method I learned is similar. Place your hands directly in front of you and make a triangle, and focus on an object. And here's where it gets different. Keeping your hands outstretched, close one eye, and then switch. One will have the object off center. The eye that keeps the target in the center of the triangle is the dominate eye.

@sanderpsychologie 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for bringing it up. I am crosseye dominant and shoot right handed. It is a challenge.... squeezing with my left eye now and then slowly opening it so the vision doesnt shift is what Im training now. From fully closed to slowly opened 50%. Shooting left handed is just bleh for me. I fall in the 11:10 category.

@Migit78 4 жыл бұрын

Interesting video. Just wanted to share my experience as someone who it's completely right handed, done everything right handed my entire life then my archery coach made me shoot lefty because of eye domanace (via the triangle technique you showed) As I had no prior archery experience I never felt at a huge deficit when it came to shooting lefty rather than right handed as I would've had they told me to just pick a bow and shoot. I may have been a bit weaker because I was shooting lefty, but I built the strength over time while I was getting form down anyway. Now that it's years later I can't even imagine shooting right handed, I've tried and getting my form to be close to correct feels all sorts of wrong and if I'm shooting barebow (right handed), I shoot to the left unless I close my left eye. I could see the difficulty if someone has been taught to shoot one way then told to swap because of eye domanace, but if you teach them to shoot from eye side at the start I don't think there will be too much of a hindrance to their ability to shoot.

@garymickus6412 4 жыл бұрын

Your passing reference to putting tape on the non aiming eyeglass has been very useful to me shooting 10 meter air pistol as it allows one to keep both eyes open. ( I use my safety glass) on my next prescription I will dedicate an eyeglass to archery.

@nimamashitongxinglian1213 4 жыл бұрын

My dad has (had) this problem and this helped a lot.

@pamonajones1825 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I've returned to archery after 50 years. I'm trying to retrain/relearn. I find that some instinctual habits are returning ie 3 finger under vs split finger. However my eyes are so different now. Early stage cataracts and a condition in right eye that will require slight corrective surgery. My coaches (club volunteers) are telling me different things about using my eyes to aim.This video made me understand that handedness and eye dominance are different. Also, why when told to keep both eyes open made me feel like I was seeing double when looking down my arrow line to target. I don't want to use sights or stabilizers. I will explore this more with my ophthalmologist. I will also go with instinct, which has proven true more often than not. Thank you from an old crone.

@rclife2969 2 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot bro this really helped me

@cavetroll 2 жыл бұрын

Just catching up on this one. I'm cross dominant. So RH but LE. I've been shooting various things for decades and learner to use my right eye. I tried some point on aiming and found that I really do use my right more for the aiming process so this interests the hell out of me

@mhough3 4 жыл бұрын

I love your channel!

@mjhill72 2 жыл бұрын

I come from a law enforcement background & never understood the eye dominance test because I couldn't get it to work. Consequently, I learned to keep both eyes open on the range (which caused me to see two guns when focusing on the target) and aim with the gun to the left. I was always a consistent top gun shooter with mostly perfect scores. Years later I learned about "mixed ocular dominance" which means your eyes are equally dominant, which is why the dominance test never worked for me.

@greenhoodedvigilante458 4 жыл бұрын

There is another way to find out aiming eye I learnt in my childhood. First, you have to point anything in far distance with your index finger closing one eye and try to aim with your other eye. If you suddenly open your closed eye and the index finger doesn’t move (visually), that means the one eye you tried to aim with is your true aiming eye. If you try to do that with the other eye, your index finger moves visually.

@shanonboykin717 Жыл бұрын

Great video!!

@evilryu29 11 ай бұрын

This will be a good one.

@andreaj215 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am right handed with left eye dominance, and I'm using right handed bow, and my coach told me to close my left eye. But I saw a video and I was kind of discouraged because they said in the video that none of the professional archers are closing one of their eyes. I hope that cross dominance is not a disadvantage.

@psruhan 3 жыл бұрын

As a pistol shooter this has been annoying me for many years. Those old school methods never worked for me. Your methods worked immediately. Thanks so much. 👍🏻

@dom4002 2 жыл бұрын

I'm left handed left eye. Naturally I was to hold the bow with my left hand. But that is considered a right hand bow lol

@leifhoklin2681 Жыл бұрын

I’m right handed, left eye dominant. I’m a pistol and rifle shooter. I shoot pistols competitively. I’ve never had an issue shooting handguns with both eyes open. My left eye takes over. When I shoot rifles, I shoot right handed and close my left eye. If I were to shoot a bow right handed, why couldn’t I just close my left eye?

@psruhan Жыл бұрын

@@leifhoklin2681 You tell me???

@leifhoklin2681 Жыл бұрын

@@psruhan but that’s just it…I feel like people make this stuff more complicated than it has to be.

@psruhan Жыл бұрын

@@leifhoklin2681 If you're happy just closing an eye, rather than learning about dominant eye shooting, than this vid is probably not for you

@daniamani5528 4 жыл бұрын

I'm left hand dominant and have a tested for left eye, but have shot right handed since forever :)

@guilhermevieira4353 4 жыл бұрын

100% agree with you. I'm right handed, left eye very dominant. But with practice and time, my right eye is overpowering the left. I don't even have to force myself to think about using the right eye anymore. Had i started shooting left hand, i would have given up on this hobby a long time ago. I did however bought a horse bow that sometimes i shoot left. Im totally crap at it

@Rodadebicicleta 3 жыл бұрын

I can't understand how to do the Test?

@rijodel 4 жыл бұрын

Hi Jake. I can say that I am very skilled with my right hand and I always shoot and aimed with my right eye. Lately, I am losing some visual ability in the right eye (cataract) and my dominant eye has become the left. I had to train my left eye not to overlap with my right and I can shoot without problem with the eye that is not dominant.

@jbullfrog81jw 2 ай бұрын

Great video. Thank you. I'm right handed and left eye dominant. I will try a left-handed bow and see what I can do. If that doesn't work out i'm stuck squinting😁

@tygeezy 3 жыл бұрын

An objective way to test is try to look through a scope with magnification with both eyes open. I have a dslr camera and if I try and look through it with my right eye with a lens with magnification on it my left eye completely dominates and all I see is a blur through the lens. My left eye however can see through the lens perfectly and as an added bonus I could move around since I have some peripheral vision from my non dominant right eye.

@ryanbon 4 жыл бұрын

Wow... ok, that was by far the most information I have ever come across all in one place on this subject... 👌

@x3roxide 4 жыл бұрын

I'm left handed but right eye dominant. I chose to go with the recommended right handed bow. I figured it would be awkward either way since no one picks up a bow for the first time and says "yep, this feels right".

@zaraf 3 жыл бұрын

i am left handed and right handed too and i was so confused as to which kind of bow to buy. I think i am going to buy a right handed one cause i also aim like a nerf gun with my right eye. Do you have any suggestions on which beginner bow to buy or which one you bought. I am thinking of a blackhunter or a SAS maverick.

@user-fr3fd4qt5u Жыл бұрын

As a firearms instructor from 1980-1995, I taught eye dominance by pointing your index finder at an object at some distance and then alternate closing one eye, then the other. Which eye lines up with what you pointed at with one eye closed is your shooting eye. Since my right eye was my shooting eye until I had a detached torn retina in my right eye and 4 surgeries and scar tissues left my right eye with very limited vision, my left eye became my shooting eye. Reconnecting with archery after decades, I am now training with my limited vision right eye shooting eye and my now left eye that is dominate as I shoot a bow right handed since I am right handed ( kick with left foot!!). The challenge continues to solve the issue with various practice styles and right and left eye practice. I am shooting 100-120 arrows everyday in search of a solution which I am determined and confident I will succeed at. ✅😎

@drewunderwood7534 4 жыл бұрын

I recently changed to left hand because eye dominance, having done the triangle method Luckily My aiming eye is left as well using your method Great video

@mathiashammar1 4 жыл бұрын

yeh my "lefty" didnt disapear with jakes trick :D Once lefty always lefty

@drewunderwood7534 4 жыл бұрын

I’m right handed though. It’s taking some time to getting used to shooting left handed

@erickonigsdorfer544 4 жыл бұрын

Great video, Jake! Just a quick question; I am new to archery, Right handed and Left Eye dominant shooting a LH bow. I do not understand the argument that if you are naturally right handed you should shoot a RH bow even if you are Left Eye dominant. To me, it seems to say that the Draw hand is more crucial in the shooting process that the Bow arm, and you should give the drawing task to your dominant/natural side... But, as ignorant as I am, I feel that both arms seems equally crucial to the shooting process, and the task of both arm can therefore be given to either without real discomfort. Since shooting Left-Handed, I also feel that my stronger arm (Right side) helps me better stabilise and control my bow arm. Thoughts?

@kaptn_kapton 4 жыл бұрын

I am totally with you. I am a very strong lefty - can't use my mouse with the right hand or play guitar like a right handed person. But when it comes to archery both sides are equally capable of perforoming the drawing. On the first day i started shooting right handed because of the bow a friend gave me. It was very strange to change to the left side afterwards but now i can do both. I will continue left handed because of my eye dominance.

@Nathanpettit22 Жыл бұрын

100% in the same boat and feel the same way!

@LogicalQ Жыл бұрын

I’m also Right handed, left eye dominant. I’ve tried both and found more success and consistency with a LH bow. You aren’t going to mess anything up trying both… Archery has so much personal preference in it already, try everything you can, find what works for you and do that.

@NicoThiry87 4 жыл бұрын

when you use the method of a new archer pointing at the coach his nose, doesn't the eye dominance (or aiming eye) of the coach it self affect the outcome of in front of wich eye the coach sees the finger?

@Leonbartolome Ай бұрын

Video Idea: Im right-handed and always aim with my left eye, so I got a left bow and since training #1 I have shot lefty. Some days, even now after 7 years, as I shoot with both eyes open, I will by mistake select the second image of the pin (right eye image) and my arrows will fly 2 meters to the side. ¿Is there a way to prevent this?

@tomalexander1300 3 жыл бұрын

My right eye sight is not good (keratoconus) compared to my left. Right handed. Does that make a difference. Always going to aim with left. Does that make a difference? Thinking of starting. My wife has recurve bow she is not using which is right handed. Will have to get longer limbs.

@RafelioPsi 4 жыл бұрын

Anyway, that’s my case: pretty much right-handed, I do a lot of things like so, like writing, playing guitar... I also do some stuff with my left hand, like opening bottles or strenght stuff. I’ve always used slighshots like a left-handed, because that way always felt a lot more natural to me, and the first time I shot a bow, it was like a right-handed and it felt (and still does) pretty unnatural and somehow painful. I also used to play biliards right-handed but clearly aiming with my left eye. Despite all the tests, I still have doubts on wich is my dominant eye. Should I consider changing sport? 😂

@anilpatil7070 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice tricks..For new beginners Archers....Jak sir please tell about how shute arrows with open both eyes....Ya one eyes.....Pleas guide this problems of beginners...Which is the better open both eye or one eye....

@davidboltenhouse8397 7 ай бұрын

I’m a lefty and I’m right eye dominant. I’ve been wanting to get a bow to shoot, I was just confused at which one to get and thought about not doing it at all.

@ignacioaguirre8137 25 күн бұрын

10:44 I’ve tried this test a few times and my fingers always end up on my nose. What does that mean?

@mcdanieltravis 2 жыл бұрын

so...i bought my first barebow setup (bow period) a month ago, RH and after watching this video it is painfully obvious my left eye is dominant. Not surprising I write right handed but bat left handed and when I played soccer favored my left foot but in golf swung right and I throw with my right..... yeah i'm a mutant I guess. Question is this. Only a month in to my archery stuff should I stick with what I have been practicing? or swap now? I honestly feel like both are comfortable ways to draw I just don't want to needlessly hinder myself

@billyoung9327 6 ай бұрын

I just wanted to chime in on this as i am completely ambidextrious, i skate goofy throw right frisby left and can change eye dominance, i was taught to do it as a kid by an old hunter when i was a kid in the 1900s, and it works the same way as contact lens training for people that need bifocals, you can train your aim to be the eye you need it to be. Just wanted to throw that out there for anyone who thinks that they are screwed by left eye right hand etc you can still be great at what you do just takes a little more effort than others

@Hodgey10 2 ай бұрын

I’m ambidextrous so it’s super hard to decide which path I want to take as I’m currently shooting right handed but left eye dominant. (yet to do this test, il have to try with my wife once I’m home from work😅) so any advice is greatly appreciated . Do I re buy a left handed bow or simply just close on eye when shooting right handed

@ArturoPladeado 2 жыл бұрын

I hold my bow with my left hand and draw the string back with my right hand, but I'm left eye dominant but also the vision in my right eye is screwed so I can't do the normal techniques, instead I have to tilt my head to the right I'd say just guessing about 30 degrees in order to see through the peep hole of a compound bow.

@Aiphiae Ай бұрын

Every time I do that "triangle" trick to find my dominant eye I can bring it to either eye and it looks the same. I've never been able to make that work.

@7thheaventruth 8 ай бұрын

Am right handed!! my left eye is dominant and I draw with my left arm holding the the bow with my right hand ?? Am I ok 👌

@ahmadfauzialadinsm 4 жыл бұрын

I predict there will be a gillo riser review 😁

@FruitLoops_ Жыл бұрын

I tried your method. I see two fingers and I can't figure out if it's on the nose or not soooo...

@svolchenko 9 ай бұрын

Very interesting... just one note. The same as with Indiana Jones, doesn't matter which eye is your dominant look to your arm dominant :)

@lamborghini09f 3 жыл бұрын

So if aim with left eye, train the lefthand is better .. that's what you mean at last ?

@liveyourdreammedia 3 ай бұрын

I'm right handed with left dominant eye. can't do any task left handed, but strangely handling a left handed bow felt like coming home... brain please xD

@abusalmafatimah 4 жыл бұрын

Emphasis on using dominate hand to pull the string. However archery is a two-handed sport: surely there's benefit in the dominant hand holding the riser?

@JakeKaminskiArchery 4 жыл бұрын

The dexterity is needed on the draw side IMHO

@Imus33 2 жыл бұрын

I have a slight dilemma! Just started archery and I'm right-handed as well as footed. My right eye is much, much clearer vision-wise but my left is weaker, yet unfortunately dominant. Should I continue shooting right handed and using my strong right eye and learning to cope with the dominance of the left, or immediately switch to a left-handed bow even though that eye is weaker?? Very confused! Any suggestions? Thank you!

@bojannovkovic8818 9 ай бұрын

I am 100% the same as you and looking for this answer? What did you end up doing? Thanks much!

@joekind1 Жыл бұрын

You should try to shoot a Left handed compound bow with your Right hand and trigger release. The alignment is better, the arrow rest , bow sight and your right are in a straight line. I shot left handed for 40 years, now I shoot my left hand bow, right handed.

@rayking3466 3 жыл бұрын

While your reasoning is sound, I disagree with the premise that someone starting out should shoot with the dominant hand. Archery is a total body sport. If the right hand is the one pushing the bow, the right hander will have a steadier bow hand. The initial learning curve is really not that different. Just because the right side has stronger coordination, the draw side just pulls, it doesn't mean that the archer will be better in the long run shooting right handed. The beginning part, learning to nock an arrow, stance, draw, anchor, are all awkward at first. Once that movement becomes habit, the archer will never know the difference. It will be a slightly longer time before it is habit but the archer, especially a barebow shooter, will benefit more by shooting with the dominant/aiming eye. Now having said that, changing from a right handed archer to a left hander after the movements have been learned....different story. It will depend entirely on the individuals drive and coordination. I wouldn't force them to change and would only suggest it if they were having significant problems that only switching eyes would cure.

@maxderman447 3 жыл бұрын

I shoot guns left handed but my whole child hood I shot bow and arrow right handed. I am left eye dominant. Gonna try shooting left handed, but also considering just getting shooting glasses and taping over my left eye

@blackspeed69007 4 жыл бұрын

huhu, some Gillo review soon!!! ;-)

@goldpilgrim 3 жыл бұрын

I learned to shoot with both hands. This way I can give my shoulder a rest. With a recurve bow, you need tho risers. Compound bows are ambidextrous believe it or not!

@chrisanderson7495 3 жыл бұрын

I promise you compounds are not ambidextrous.

@Ocyla 2 жыл бұрын

I had a first archery class yesterday and I knew I was right handed but left eye dominant. They put me with a left handed bow and it just felt SO WEIRD.

@Test-uj6nh Жыл бұрын

How ae you going now? Did you stick with the left handed bow? and if so, have you improved?

@JG-zu5wc 3 жыл бұрын

What would you recommend for hunting? Go with hand or eye? Doesn’t have to be that accurate on shot placement compared to competitive.. main issue for me is left eye also sees better - but right hand way more stable. I’m buying an expensive bow and not sure which side

@scotth5978 2 жыл бұрын

What did you find out?

@JG-zu5wc 2 жыл бұрын

@@scotth5978 I got lefty - awesome improvement. Can easily train the hand (back shoulder) and already at 70lb on left hand. Much easier and quicker than training the eye. I’m happy with my ultra rx5 left hand.

@scotth5978 2 жыл бұрын

@@JG-zu5wc In the same boat - I’m right handed and left eye dominant - started bow hunting for a year with RH bow easily 20 years ago. Never realized about cross dominance, but I want to return to the sport. Trying to decide LH or RH. How long did it take you to work up to 70 lbs?

@JG-zu5wc 2 жыл бұрын

@@scotth5978 about a couple of months to a steady 70lb with clean pull. I was nervous to spend 2k on a bow I won’t be able to shoot but the eye feels so natural I should have started left. Anchor point also feels better when you don’t have to close the other eye. Right hand that is stronger feels more stable holding the weight for a while before the shot because the left is “resting” on my cheek with 85% let off.. go try left bow at a pro shop - imo better go with eye than hand.

@scotth5978 2 жыл бұрын

@@JG-zu5wc sounds good. I’ll give the lefty a try. Thank you!

@randomguy-dy3uy Жыл бұрын

Ok after testing, im right handed, so if I shoot both eyes open, I get double vision on the arrow and target, I use the left arrow tip and aim at the right target image lol. If I switch to left handed, everything is much smoother and the "real" arrow tip is much stronger in my vision with no real double image target. I don't think I can learn to shoot left handed at this point lol....

@barbandrob1 2 жыл бұрын

I tried this….it seems to me, that “aiming eye”, is more likely, your natural point of aim, and controlled by dominant hand, rather than eye….(an eye wear company may be biased to see everything, in the realm of eyes) When cross eye dominant, and right handed point of aim, your dominant eye(left) will still overtake your sight picture, cause shift in point of impact. The only thing you can do is close your dominant eye(add visual noise with tape, blinders, chapstick, etc)or shift your head so your dominant eye is in line with your sight picture. Or shoot lefty..

@007drak007 4 жыл бұрын

What do I do if I am blind on my right eye but I am right handed and my left shoulder is injured and I cant really lift it and do a proper backtension draw, Lets say a missing/damaged missing muscle.

@JakeKaminskiArchery 4 жыл бұрын

Ive seen people shoot right handed and use their left eye to Aim, required a unique anchor but do-able.

@007drak007 4 жыл бұрын

@@JakeKaminskiArchery Have a LH Compound and Recurve. The recurve will not do a RH, but that compound is symetrical and will try it tomorow. Thanks

@robertorios3135 2 жыл бұрын

@@JakeKaminskiArchery What is the location of this unique anchor ?

@pablodiego8438 Жыл бұрын

Your eye dominant test wast explained very clear

@mightyfinejonboy 4 жыл бұрын

i still want to try left-handed :-)

@JakeKaminskiArchery 4 жыл бұрын

Not me, not even for........... One Million Dollars.

@a_granddad5427 Жыл бұрын

Right hand, left eye... When both eyes are open, the closer image doubles. For example, I see two arrows. I simply look at the image on the left and that's it, I put the image on the left on the target.

@bojannovkovic8818 9 ай бұрын

do you use RH or LH bow?

@haydenhiat7948 2 жыл бұрын

I do everything right handed, except shooting bows and guns its been that way all my life, and im left eye dominant, and ive always put the arrow on the left side of the bow, so when i choose equipment it takes creativity i quess, its a journey of some sort lol

@SkywalkFPV 2 жыл бұрын

Great video but still confusing.. In my case I am fully right handed and fully left eye dominant, so my philosophy goes as follows what should feel most natural to me.. Since Im right handed this arm is the strongest, so I would like to pull the string with that hand - the left hand would feel most natural to just keep the riser steady.. So this is called a right handed bow while it is actually in my left hand talking about confusing XD.. Anyway my left foot is forward which also means my dominant left eye is closest to the target and the arrow is on the left side of the riser.. So the anchoring position would be pulling the string to my left eye with my right hand and make my right eye obsolete doing so.. I dunno if this makes sense correct me if I am wrong please or who feels the same..

@7thheaventruth 8 ай бұрын

Am right hand I hold my bow in my right hand I pull the sting with my left hand and use my left eye so I guess it right handed bow I have

@aussiedogwoman 4 жыл бұрын

I'm ambidextrous. When I point my finger at the nose, I see two fingers. The nose at the middle. I just close one eye or wear a blinder. I chose to shoot right since I throw baseballs with my right hand and the cost of a right handed bow wasv$100 less than a left hand bow

@UziDusIt Жыл бұрын

9:55 is when he shows his method

@tyweick 2 жыл бұрын

I'm right handed, and left eye dominant and learned to shoot left handed last year and wouldn't have it any other way. Now it's like I never knew anything different and am completely comfortable shooting left handed. I understand you points, but I guess I just completely disagree on the take that you should learn to shoot with your dominant hand over your dominant eye.

@RafelioPsi 4 жыл бұрын

What’s in the Gillo box behind you mate?! 😂

@slavekkadrnka7155 4 жыл бұрын

You must be fully right eye dominant ;) good point by the way. My guess is the riser...

@JakeKaminskiArchery 4 жыл бұрын

A Teaser.

@toxic5000 4 жыл бұрын

It brought me an idea, Jake, it might be interesting to know the difference between a barebow focused riser like the Gillo and an Olympic kind of riser. What makes them different? What will happen if you'll make a full recurve setup from a barebow riser?

@advancegraphics6400 4 жыл бұрын

I am right 👉 handed Archer 🎖

@hersonlascari9071 2 жыл бұрын

10:10 explains gow to determine your aiming eye

@KillahBC Жыл бұрын

Explanation wasn't great. Not sure what you meant by stating where your finger should have gone to during the test

@IAmEmiliaM 2 жыл бұрын

I actually don’t understand how to do the method. I have to point to the other persons nose with each hand?

@JakeKaminskiArchery 2 жыл бұрын

Correct

@IAmEmiliaM 2 жыл бұрын

@@JakeKaminskiArchery Hi Jake, could you please explain to me how that tells me which eye is the dominant one? Whatam I looking for?

@xvgx 2 жыл бұрын

How do I k ow if I am aiming left or right just by pointing at the other person’s nose? Do I have to take a video of myself doing it?

@KillahBC Жыл бұрын

@@IAmEmiliaM Lol let me know if you ever figured this out

@Test-uj6nh Жыл бұрын

@@IAmEmiliaM Once you have your finger pointing at the target close each eye one at a time. You'll then notice that one eye is correct and the other incorrect.The correct one is your dominant eye. Hope that helps?

@toxic5000 4 жыл бұрын

I know a different method: You put your index finger on a distant object and focus your eyes in it (just like with a target), then close one of your eyes. If the finger stayed on the object - it's your dominant eye, if it suddenly moved, its not. Then close the other eye to make sure.

@JakeKaminskiArchery 4 жыл бұрын

Sure, but using both hands individually and together tricks your brain into showing its true aiming eye without the hand dominance coming into play.

@toxic5000 4 жыл бұрын

@@JakeKaminskiArchery I think both methods achieve this. In the method I described the index finger can be swapped to any other object, regardless of hand dominance. For example, you can place the point of an arrow instead. Thank you so much for your content! I know a lot of archers in Israeli clubs that single handedly say that you are by far the best content creator regarding Olympic archery, and archery in general.

@anilpatil7070 4 жыл бұрын

Yes...This is the fantastic trick's....

@borjal9511 3 жыл бұрын

@@JakeKaminskiArchery well, im screwed, when i point with my right finger i aim with right eye, when i use my left finger i aim with my left eye and when i use both fingers at the same time neither are aimed xD, what should i do?

@Asrudin 2 жыл бұрын

haha funny, I am right eye dominant and aim with my left eye. I never knew.

@harrychen574 4 жыл бұрын

The eye dominance test has been long proven to be inaccurate. Don't know why anyone is still using it. RH here with left dominant eye. Been a military sniper. shooting RH, shoots with both eyes open, 6X scope.

@barbandrob1 2 жыл бұрын

I can do the same….through the scope, at magnification, my right eye will become more dominant….also squinting my left eye, while welding cheek, is also helpful…

@chrisanderson7495 3 жыл бұрын

Thats me. Im one of those totally messed up folks. Im a lefty, bat right. Shoot a rifle lefty, shoot a bow right. And do all well.

@martychills817 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah this is cool and all, but how do you check your brown eye? 🤔

@thewhiskeycowboy-official 2 жыл бұрын

Eye dominance and aiming eye is nothing new. And it is seen with rifle vs pistol shooting. I am right hand and LEFT eye dominant. When shooting a RIFLE I aim with my right eye and NOT my dominant eye. When I shoot a pistol, I aim with my dominant eye, which is LEFT.

@randomguy-dy3uy Жыл бұрын

Well the old method doesnt work, i can choose my eye lol..........i think left and it goes left, I think nothing and the small triangle goes to my nose.......lol

@MrCuteButt2007 6 ай бұрын

And then there are people who are left handed AND have eye sight Problems on their left eye😂😂

@stevenmonkman1500 2 жыл бұрын

Very confusing explaination of how pointing a the nose goes to the right eye. Huh?

@luger9857 3 жыл бұрын

You should try the laser pointer methed of figuring right or left eye dominated. I think its the most accurate way. Take a laser shine it in the mirror (use the red dot one, dont use an overly powerful laser for this) and there will be 3 red dots. One from the device you're holding(the laser) one on the mirror and one reflected off the mirror. Aline the one on the mirror to the one coming from the laser and the reflected one will shine in your dominant eye. Dont do this for long for safty reasons

@squeebz 2 жыл бұрын

As a left hander living in a right-handed dominated world, it is mildly humorous that right handers would be so flustered having to do anything at all left-handed. (I shoot right-handed because of my aiming eye.)

@crocoarchery9882 4 жыл бұрын

gillo box behind ....

@JakeKaminskiArchery 4 жыл бұрын

Teaser...

@crocoarchery9882 4 жыл бұрын

@@JakeKaminskiArchery can't wait you completely review it.... 😁👍🏻👍🏻

@uniquedrone 2 ай бұрын

Your test is simply finger test on dominant eye.

@Brooklynapoli 8 ай бұрын

I didn’t need the test, I feel already which side to use.

@ignatiuslaurent58 9 ай бұрын

Why the world is picking on me . Are you guy’s saying something is wrong with me or I was not well developed in my mother’s womb . I discovered fishing so I bought a bait caster fishing reel . I am right handed which mean I cast the line with my right hand and reel in the line with my left . Majority of fishermen don’t do that instead they cast the fishing reel with their right hand then switch the reel to their left hand then reel in the line with the left hand To me that is strange because if a big fish took the bait they’d fight the fish with their left hand and reel in the line with their right hand . The dominant hand suppose to be your right hand why would you hold the reel to fight the fish with your left hand when your strongest hand is your right hand . I am trying to get into archery and here they go again something is wrong with me because I’m left eye dominant witch means I must hold the bow with my right hand and the string with my left hand . How would I pull a 70 lbs string with my left hands . I wonder what else they’ll find that is strange about me .

@-fazik-3713 4 жыл бұрын

@capricornmagic63 Жыл бұрын

Why does he digress so much? he starts off by telling us the old school way of doing things, then he jumps to when he was 12 the he skips to working with Bauch and Lomb, then almost 10 minutes later he gets to the point of the whole video Too much unnecessary chatter.

@JakeKaminskiArchery Жыл бұрын

Others learn in many ways, I have to cover all bases. If you don't hear background and explanation behind the details how can you trust it? Plus this video is old, check out the new ones.... far smoother on delivery. Everyone has a starting point.