Episode #54 Season 24: Shaun Boyce & Justin Yeo

In this episode of the Atlanta Tennis Podcast, hosts Shaun Boyce and Justin Yeo discuss the dominant eye and how to work around it.

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Today we are talking to Justin Yeo, Australian world renowned tennis pro,

Australian Puerto Rico. I just love doing that because it makes him smile.

Justin Yeo, 10 minutes of tennis. Good morning. How you doing?

Good morning.

This.

Today. We are sitting here ready.

Yeah, exactly. It feels like we're not even there yet, but we are.

So, let's see. What are we talking about today?

Eyes. We're talking about eyes. We're talking about a dominant eye

versus a non-dominant eye. And my eye, my left eye here, is a little bit more open

than my right eye because my right, my right eye, droops a little bit.

My eyelid, is that what we're talking about? So, that makes my left eye the dominant one, right, Justin?

Definitely not. Definitely not.

That's what you're talking about.

That's cool having a little baby.

Oh no.

Just to clarify that to everyone.

Okay. Yeah. That's definitely called a sleep-deprived straight away.

Having a child. Alright, so, dominant eye versus non-dominant eye.

Got to go. Look, the science is there, right? We all know that everyone has a dominant, non-dominant eye.

No one's like literally 50/50.

The best that we know is 55/45.

So, that's sort of the best that we know. Everyone always has a dominant, non-dominant eye.

The percentages that get closer makes it easier for that player.

One that's got a higher percentage than one side than another side.

Like, once you start going to 64, then that player can commonly, if they're not using the dominant

eye to the ball, they will either turn their head to get that to happen.

Or, they're actually missing a lot of balls, they're not realizing that they're not using

the dominant eye. So, there's a lot of cool tests you can look online where they show, you know,

covering one eye, hit it all, covering the other eye, hit another ball, and you start to understand

which one's more dominant eye. There's other ways of doing it, looking at different angles as well.

So, there's way the so many tests. The guy that actually really was the expert at the

whole body seems to talk about his chocolate quarter. He's Spanish coach that raised

moya and madal when they were little. He's one of the first hidden belt glasses, sunglasses

that you put on, and he will be with a remote block the glass, and he starts to teach you how to

use your dominant eye. So, it is a real thing. Great place like SpareBrev. There's a lot of articles

on him about how he uses his, I think it's the wide eye the most, and that changes his technique because

of that, because his head opens up seeing the ball hit contact. The way to put all coaches to really

strengthen how to use both all the time is I always say keep your nose to the ball, right? You keep

your nose to the ball or to the net, mostly to the net. What it does is it allows your body to turn

around your head and keep both eyes and contact early. So, that's one way to counteract the

non-dominant and dominant eye, but you'll commonly see once you find out which one's the dominant,

he can help you play it because maybe that eye is not seeing contact or not seeing the ball,

or the other way around, they're turning too much of their head to get that dominant eye to see

but then it affects the technique as well because you're not turning your head's turning.

So, there's some of the stuff about non-dominant and dominant eye. It is a real deal.

And when you want to stand it more and keep diving into it more, it's another tool to make you

like, no, it'll go like God, but create God-like stuff when a player is hitting the ball.

Imagine just being able to fix something you didn't know was wrong.

Yeah, I mean, that same thing is, I don't want to stay up top, but perception is another one,

though, the amount of people is at, I'm just slow, I'm always late, and I just can't stand it,

and the festival always gets me. And I'm just like, okay, let's add simple fix, just watch my racket.

And as soon as they start watching the racket, I've been 10 minutes, the feet start operating,

the split step goes faster, the contact point becomes earlier, all these things start happening.

They get to the ball and recover better, all because they're made from the racket, and nobody

talks about that. And it's like, well, I wouldn't say that's the even off topic because the idea is,

the topic here always is in 10 minutes of tennis is give them something, give them something,

give us something, the player, the coach, whoever it is, something that makes me a little bit better.

Yeah, I'd be a little bit better today than I was yesterday. And if I've got that tip, it's like those

quick tips that we do or the tennis tips, the podcast has it, go tennis has them, we're collecting a lot

of them, and it just really gives us a chance to say, okay, can we help everybody just a little bit,

in just 10 minutes in this case? So I'm going to look at the joke of it, choose the world,

whose eyes get really, makes me think of a haggissie back in the day. We always just thought it was

really strange that he was just eyes open and straight ahead, and my world is playing with kids,

and we have a, what we call the zombie game, and I say, okay, well, after you hit the ball and you

shuffle back around to your next spot, you have to keep your eyes forward, or the zombies are going to

come and get you. And so it's always just making sure you got to run as fast as you can with your head,

always looking forward. I think that's what you meant by nose to the net. Yeah, yeah, nose to the net.

Sometimes I say nose to the ball only because you're preparing and you go into the ball, but it is

amazing how many turn that whole head off, how up the ball. And then what's really interesting is

by holding, sometimes it all depends on the player obviously, but if you do focus on nose to the ball,

you want to keep that nose on the ball as well, which a lot of players, if they don't, non-dominant,

they want to try to turn off the ball as they make contact. And that's one of the things that people

talk about with Vagrae, but on his forehand is that he tends to open up because he's trying to get his

right eye to see, see, see, Monday. You have to understand, too, depth perception is a big one, and

your left eye is your non-dominant, then again, depth perception might be harder for them as well,

because the left eye is weak, but really the left eye is, we know science wise, easier depth perception.

All right, so last two minutes of our 10 minutes of tennis, give me some ways I might be able to find

out what my dominant eye or my non-dominant eye. I saw the thing was Vera where they do the string

with the bead and they can actually track what you're seeing. There's some really cool things to do,

but if my coach isn't into it, is there a way I can check on myself? Can I do a little DIY dominant

eye? They're great tools. Paxi Maratoga has different ones as well, where he has, you know,

and he says, "What can you see, what can you see, how can you see?" If you look up Jeffrey Porter,

and other many people can spell his name properly, but he's got some really funky stuff online as well,

but it's all in Spanish. But what I would say if it was just me on the court was one eye, hit the ball,

but it was another hit next ball, you know, and just hit the ball and see which one feels more comfortable,

usually a good judgment. I don't think I've ever seen anybody hit the same ball as comfortable

with one eye than the other. It's never seen. Now, some people will say, well, Valpa's saying,

"I don't like it, but you get it. It's pretty clear, so let's try that again." You know, let's look

at the right eye. He hits the strings. But after I hit the strings, he frames it again. It's like,

"Hello, this seems pretty easy. It's only 60/40 or 55/45, but they want to get real specific. They can

go to an ice fish list and they'll go and test and easily show you what your numbers are. If the

gauge is big, it can affect the player, which someone likes very, very, very more dominant than

non-dominant. These percentages are definitely higher." So I say, start with that eye patch test,

with the eye patch on one, with the eye patch on the other. You can do that too. The difference with

eye patching is once you hit a few balls, you already start to make it just.

Well, the thing is just the one. Like you said, close one eye, close the other eye. I was just

ensuring using an eye patch, one ball, switch it over. It's easier than trying to hold one close,

because I would just, I would just hold it close. Oh, you don't like the eye patch. I was just

thinking, "I'm just another thing you've got to put in your pocket as a coach or another thing you

have to go up to the feed and help you change it. Just like these little vibrates all you've got to

do. Yes, here's your vibration dampener in your eye patch. I like it." Yeah, that is super big.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's sexy. Put this thing out, right? They put the hip-honey towel and

they've got, "Oh, I need the female version with that." Yeah, a little pink fuzzy eye patch.

Mixing up with my virtue. You're going to make it cute. Exactly. I love it. We got new products

every day. Justin Yo, this has been 10 minutes of tennis. Thanks so much. We'll see you next week.

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