Shadowboxing with eyes closed

I just tried the exercise you just mentioned...Now, I'm right handed all the way, the only thing I can do with my left hand is punch. But when I stand on my right leg, closing either eye, I wobble all over the place. If I stand on my left leg, with my right eye open, I am real solid. Slightly less so standing on my left leg with the left eye open. What is happening there?
For what it is worth, I shoot equally well with either hand, but, when I shoot right handed, with a pistol, I arrange myself so my left eye does most of the seeing.

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Originally Posted by greynotsoold

I just tried the exercise you just mentioned...Now, I'm right handed all the way, the only thing I can do with my left hand is punch. But when I stand on my right leg, closing either eye, I wobble all over the place. If I stand on my left leg, with my right eye open, I am real solid. Slightly less so standing on my left leg with the left eye open. What is happening there?
For what it is worth, I shoot equally well with either hand, but, when I shoot right handed, with a pistol, I arrange myself so my left eye does most of the seeing.

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Greys before that try this, Put tissue in the opposite ear while doing it ;D

All the way around, I am more solid with an ear blocked. I stood on my right leg with my left eye open, blocked the right ear, then the left, and worked my way around. No matter which, I was more solid with an ear blocked than without.

;D Thats where the Balance comes from, eyes give out wrong messages, because they dont see the same thing. the lesser eye is usually more short sighted. Over time it causes an imbalance in the Hips, with the Coxxys being your centre of gravity, it throws the mechanism of Balance,thats when all hell brakes loose, with your biomechanics, and the injurys start to happen.

So, if I understand, I've been lucky that my dominant eye is forward...or do my hips sometimes hurt because I'm nearsighted in my right eye?

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Originally Posted by greynotsoold

So, if I understand, I've been lucky that my dominant eye is forward...or do my hips sometimes hurt because I'm nearsighted in my right eye?

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Well really it should be your back Eye, but there are people who do this, not many. which foot do you kick with.

I kick with my right foot. Now, when I was 12, my sister poked me in my right eye, cut it with her finger nail and I wore a patch for a few weeks, nearly lost sight in that eye. it was only 2 or 3 weeks , but maybe that is why my left eye is dominant?

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Originally Posted by greynotsoold

I kick with my right foot. Now, when I was 12, my sister poked me in my right eye, cut it with her finger nail and I wore a patch for a few weeks, nearly lost sight in that eye. it was only 2 or 3 weeks , but maybe that is why my left eye is dominant?

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Jesus Greys, that could be the reason ;D is it your left Hip that gives you prolems

It is usually my right hip.

Its a strange one, would have to have a look, you do a lot of Pads.

Not for awhile now...When I was catching on the pads I got the standard aches and pains. this soreness in my hips is very recent, over the last couple years. In fact, for most of my life my back pain was up between my shoulders, and I always attributed that to my trade. (I hung ceilings, so my hands were always over my head.) That quit happening in the late 1990s...
I wonder if years of chronic bladder infections might have caused this, if it is actuallly in my right kidney (the weaker of the two) and not in my hip?

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Originally Posted by greynotsoold

Not for awhile now...When I was catching on the pads I got the standard aches and pains. this soreness in my hips is very recent, over the last couple years. In fact, for most of my life my back pain was up between my shoulders, and I always attributed that to my trade. (I hung ceilings, so my hands were always over my head.) That quit happening in the late 1990s...
I wonder if years of chronic bladder infections might have caused this, if it is actuallly in my right kidney (the weaker of the two) and not in my hip?

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That can cause all kinds of problems to the muscles, that support joints and Posture, trying to relieve pain, Feel.

So has anyone ever tried to box with one ear blocked?

Shouldnt think so ;D, all it does,as you apply it to routines, it gives a better perception and awareness of sporting agility and how to improve your CNS to function. Certainly improves Speed.

I would like to hear more for others who may have tried this in training. I have been bending the ears of the head coach and other coach at our gym on what I have been reading in this forum and they just blow it off as a fad. I'm always open for new training techniques. I am thinking about taking three of my students and giving it a try but would appreciate some more feed back on how this is going.