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| Does anyone have depth perception issues?
How do or did you overcome depth perception?
I wear glasses to see in the distance while driving, should I wear my glasses while barrel racing?
Our first barrel is good, but second and third we are having issues with.
Hubby has videoed our coming into the second barrel, I am sitting to soon, plus i am kicking hard with the outside leg.
Hubby thinks it could a depth perception issue.....the joys of aging. LOL
Anyone else had these problems and how or what did you do to help elevate the problem?
I greatly appreciate the advice.
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| I have a friend that was having a hard time not knocking over barrels. We got her to wear her glasses and low and behold she stopped hitting them! You won't know until you try it, what is there to lose? |
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 The Non Sky Diver
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Location: SE Louisiana | I took a home-run baseball that I never saw coming to the right temple at the age of eight years old... Killed the optic nerve to that eye.... Time.... lots of time.....You can never overcome it, but you can adapt.
Edited by Komet 2013-12-29 5:11 PM
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| I had similar issues but since I already wear glasses that was not the issue. Mine was not enough core body strength. I didn't feel secure enough to cue correctly.
Edited by MO gal 2013-12-29 5:11 PM
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | I have poor depth perception out of my right eye. It makes judging the first a challenge. I tend to turn my head so I can use my left eye, but that changes my body position which makes my horse respond... |
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| Interesting.....so what did you do to strengthen your core muscles?
I do about 120 to 150 situps a week. At the gym I do 30 incline situps with 25lb weight on chest, 30 forward situps at 110 to 120lbs, and 30 front and 30 backward situps holding 25lb weight- on like pilate table thing. I also do planks for about 30 seconds every other day.
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The Non Sky Diver
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Location: SE Louisiana | canchaserdelux - 2013-12-29 6:35 PM
Interesting.....so what did you do to strengthen your core muscles?
I do about 120 to 150 situps a week. At the gym I do 30 incline situps with 25lb weight on chest, 30 forward situps at 110 to 120lbs, and 30 front and 30 backward situps holding 25lb weight- on like pilate table thing. I also do planks for about 30 seconds every other day.
That's all great stuff... But wear a patch over the dominate eye. That is how to equal them out.
Edited by Komet 2013-12-29 6:56 PM
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| I have very little depth perception. I had a wandering eye when I was young and it stems from that. One eye simply does not track correctly.
I also have terrible near sightedness. I refused to wear glasses until I had to at age 16, and even then did not ride with glasses. I ran barrels and poles better then, without glasses or contacts, than I do now with lasik corrected 20/20 vision.
I guess since the whole world looks flat all the time to me I learned to compensate in other ways. I can't say how for certain since I've done it without thought for my whole life. I can say it makes me very uncomfortable running blind to the 1st barrel. |
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Location: Central Texas | I see up close, I don't see far away very well. Like you I use my glasses for driving or to see long distance. Wearing my glasses while racing helps me with my depth perception especially in arenas with little light. My friend has the same issue and she agrees her glasses help her. Try it and see. Good luck. |
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Location: Washington | Laser surgery if it's an option? |
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Location: CA | I have little depth percection.. watching me hook up a trailer is quite entertaining. lol I did two things. First I set barrels up in all over in my arena, and every time my horse got to it, we turned it. I never pass one by. This got them looking for them for me. I can't tell when I am to the first one until I am right on it, at that point my horses are alreay waiting for me to cue, so the time it takes for them to set that hind foot ends up being pretty close to perfect.
I had a mare that over runs the first, so I put cookies on it. lol Again not the way you are suppose to do it, but I would let her run right up to it, eat a cookie and go. Of course I eventially had to stop doing it, but it taught her to hunt that barrel.
In the beginning I was kind of vocal and when I got the the first barrel, I would actually say, Oh crap we are here! This turned into Here! So they get a little vocal cue as well. My toughest part is running to the fence, so I just kind of look for the timers and sit after we cross them. I am glad my horses can see better than me. lol
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| Komet - 2013-12-29 5:10 PM I took a home-run baseball that I never saw coming to the right temple at the age of eight years old... Killed the optic nerve to that eye.... Time.... lots of time.....You can never overcome it, but you can adapt.
Ohhhhh.. .. That explains alot! |
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Sounds weird, but I have better depth perception wearing contacts than I do wearing glasses. |
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Location: Wishing I was riding | Well, I'm glAd to see I'm not the only one with this issue, it has been an issue for me since my last concussion, it knocked my vision of place, so I got glasses and my eye doctor explained to me that I have bad depth perception, out explained why I brush things when I walk by them. Before the glasses, I always overcompensated for my depth perception, so I'd make my turns just a little too wide. It was quite a change when I got glasses and saw how I was turning. But to answer tor question- glasses really helped |
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Location: North Dakota | akammes1997 - 2013-12-30 2:33 PM Well, I'm glAd to see I'm not the only one with this issue, it has been an issue for me since my last concussion, it knocked my vision of place, so I got glasses and my eye doctor explained to me that I have bad depth perception, out explained why I brush things when I walk by them. Before the glasses, I always overcompensated for my depth perception, so I'd make my turns just a little too wide. It was quite a change when I got glasses and saw how I was turning. But to answer tor question- glasses really helped
I always hesitate to give medical advice over the internet, but I am an optometrist.
What do you mean your concussion "knocked your vision out of place"?
Are you thinking that your concussion has caused you to need glasses now?
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | jenagarwood - 2013-12-30 12:17 PM Sounds weird, but I have better depth perception wearing contacts than I do wearing glasses.
Me too. I bump into things wearing glasses and they make me dizzy. I've never worn them exclusively tho, just an hour here and there. I hate having to move my head to see things. I don't have to in contacts. |
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| I kept having issues stepping off for goat tying. I would get off to early or too late and a friend told me to get an eye exam and I have contacts and I no longer have problems. I can't see a long ways off. I won't work horses on the pattern if I don't have contacts or glasses. It makes a huge difference. |
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