Hey guys I'm retired Navy SEAL sniper instructor Chris Sajnog
founder of the new rules of marksmanship training system in this video I'm gonna
teach you how to find your dominant eye now let's go ahead and get started
all right so first off what is your dominant eye and why do you need to know
which one it is your dominant eye is the eye that your
brain is going to use to detect minor differences from the two images that it
receives from each eyeball it's a small difference right about two and a half
inches apart but there is a slight difference so when it comes to making
precise decisions where something is out in space in front of you your brain is
going to make a decision as to which eye to kind of trust a little more so the
reason this is important is because your brain is naturally going to have a
tendency to want to use that eyeball it's usually not the eye with the best
eyesight because we're non-dominant eye feels neglected and it feels like it
needs to overwork the eye with the weaker vision tends to be the dominant
eye but that's not always the case this becomes critical when you want to shoot
quickly and accurately and when you bring your gun up your dominant eye is
where your gun is going to naturally be directed toward so you need to know
where that is there's two tests that we can do to test your dominant eye and
they're both very simple you can do either these static or moving the first
one is called the miles test you're going to make a triangle with your hands
and you're gonna look through that and focus on a small item like a light
switch or something very small you want it to be something that you can't see
through both your eyes you don't want to go like this and look at something and
that's not going to be an effective test in fact a lot of people will come back
and tell me Chris I don't have a dominant eye I can see through both eyes
just as effectively but when they do do the test they end up coming back like
this of course that is not effective okay it needs to be a small item for the
static test all you're gonna do is you put your hands up and pick that item
then you're gonna close an eye so I just closed my left eye and I'm right eye
dominant so I can see what I'm looking at through
that triangle now if I do it again and I close my right eye now I can no longer
see the item that I was looking at in fact I'm looking off now just a little
bit to the right of where that item is you can do the moving test so you're
gonna do the exact same thing make a small shape on a small item and look
through it and just keep bringing your hands back until it's naturally gonna
move towards your dominant eye and that's how you do it
so that is the miles test the next test I'm going to talk about is the porter
test and the porter test is a lot like the miles test the only difference is
instead of making a shape with your hand you're just going to point at something
so just take your index finger and point at an object off in the distance and
you're going to point directly at it and then again close one eye so I'm closing
my left eye I'm pointing directly at the item I was looking at and if now I close
my right eye which is my dominant eye now my finger is pointing off to the
right of that so I know that my right eye is dominant now again we can do this
moving test where we point at the item and then just slowly bring your finger
back pointing at that item and as you do that you will be pointing at your
dominant eye now with eye dominance there are truly some people that don't
have a dominant eye that is possible but it's a very small minority of people so
don't think that just because you did the test maybe improperly that you don't
have a dominant eye and then the next thing that I want you to know is your
dominance can change depending on what you're doing with your hands so say for
instance you're holding something in your hands such as a firearm that hand
is sending information to your brain to tell it there is something else in space
that it needs to put into the equation so it might change your dominance a
little bit and if you use two hands with a rifle or a carbine that can change it
as well now some other things that can change it are lighting so if you are in
a low light situation sometime that can change your eye dominance but
one of the biggest things that changes most people if it is gonna change is
distance say if your right eye dominant you're using your right eye but then you
go back to like fifty or a hundred yards and you go to shoot and you find it very
hard to focus if you're finding something like that is happening do
another dominance check at that distance okay so just keep testing this shouldn't
be something that you only test one time and then you're done with it your eye
dominance can definitely change so the last thing I want to talk about is where
this really becomes critical and that is learning to shoot with both of your eyes
open because when you're shooting with both your eyes open you are going to see
two pictures because you have two eyeballs and this can be confusing for a
lot of people at first and they want to know how do I get rid of that second
image that they don't want to see from their non-dominant eye well you don't
want to get rid of that image what you need to do is train your eyes and train
your brain to decide which image that it's going to use for say your front
sight post and if you do this if you train it enough it usually takes just
about a week of training to be able to do that you will be able to shoot with
both eyes open now this is going to allow you to be able to see your
battlespace or see the competition area you'll be able to move better it's just
a lot easier to shoot with both eyes open so go ahead and check and use these
tests to find your dominant eye and until next time keep paving your path to
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