Same side eye dominance vs cross dominance

[dlam]

I find that my one handed backhand is easier when I use my left arm
I'm also left eye dominant.
However when I try to use my right arm to hit a one handed backhand it feels awkward but my 2H BH is fantastic
Conversely when I try a 2HB from the left side it feels weird
So in conclusion do cross arm dominant players prefer 2H BH
And same side dominant arm players prefer the one handed BH?
Or not?

 

[lockbox]

What leads you to believe that you have an eye-dominance issue in the first place? Can you elaborate on what you mean by cross arm dominant? I shoot a lot of pool and eye dominance issues definitely show up there, but I find it hard to believe that eye dominance issues would lead your BH to feel awkward.

 

[SinjinCooper]

Just hit the ball.

 

[golden chicken]

I am right handed and left eye dominant. I grew up hitting a two handed backhand and transitioned to mostly a one handed backhand between high school and college. I coached little kids and some of my friends after college, so I have practiced both and I still use both.

Neither of the two reasons I can think of for why I mostly use a one handed backhand have to do with my eye dominance. One reason is because I have lazy footwork and the other is because I hit with both topspin and slice.

 

[dlam]

What leads you to believe that you have an eye-dominance issue in the first place? Can you elaborate on what you mean by cross arm dominant? I shoot a lot of pool and eye dominance issues definitely show up there, but I find it hard to believe that eye dominance issues would lead your BH to feel awkward.

Just like in pool The eye position
When I use my lead eye it's easier to make a one arm topspin BH as I am just turning my head just a bit
With rear eye dominance I have to turn my head much more and it's just easier make it a two handed and just turn my torso as well

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

Can't see why eye dominance would be a factor for 1-handed vs 2-handed BHs. How about foot dominance?

As for myself, I am cross (hand-eye) dominant for tennis and other racket sports. Right-eyed but (primarily) left-handed for tennis. I prefer the 1-handed BH over the 2-hander when it comes to playing as a lefty. Don't believe that eye dom has anything to do with this. I used a 1-hander for more than 25 years before I seriously attempted the 2-hander. The 2-handed BH was something of an oddity/novelty when I took up tennis.

I do throw and play some other sports as a righty -- baseball, golf and bowling. Not very good at any of those sports. But then I have learned to develop right-handed skills for volleyball, badminton, ping pong and tennis. For tennis (and badminton), I have developed very decent forehands and overhead shots and tennis serves but my backhands feel very awkward as a righty. This is a bit odd since my left forehand is decent, you would think that it would not be very difficult to learn a righty 2-handed BH.

The righty 2-handed BH, like lefty baseball batting both feel very awkward. This is a shame since being right-eyed would favor both of these. Seems to be importnat factors other than eye dominance that come into play here.

 

[SystemicAnomaly]

While eye dominance might not be be much of a factor for the type of BH we favor, it may play a very important role for hand-eye coordination. One side of often easier than the other wrt hand-eye. Cross dominant tennis players are often better on the FH side than the BH side -- at least when it comes to judging ball trajectory. Homogeneous dominance tends to favor the BH side. I have seen this with many of may students who have greater difficulty judging and making good/clean contact on one side relative to the other side. There has been a high degree of correlation -- eye dominance seems to the most important factor in nearly 3/4 of the cases.

http://www.sportneurotraining.com/laterality-in-tennis/
https://www.aoa.org/documents/optometrists/Tennis.pdf

http://www.stack.com/a/determine-your-dominant-eye-and-make-it-work-for-your-sport
https://psychedonline.com/2003/06/06/feature-eye-hand-dominance-baseball-performance/

 

[NLBwell]

I do not have a dominant eye. A few percent of people are like this, including John McEnroe according to an article I read.
I do have a major issue with not contacting the ball in the center of the strings, but the issue is movement of my head which is a bad habit which came from teaching tennis.
It certainly shows up when shooting guns. I'm a better shot at targets farther away than closer to me.

 

[meltphace 6]

Got to fortward this thread to a tennis instructing colleague of mine who's been making a big fuzz (as in marketing) about this. Sure, a man's gotta eat (while his players lose every match).

 

[West Coast Ace]

I blame all my misses on ill-timed blinking........