How
it Works
No matter who you are, you’ve heard the phrase “Keep
your eye on the ball!” How does a player process that
information and actually improve his or her ability to make
contact? Is this ability to improve the vision skill trainable?
The answer is absolutely YES!
The Evidence
Doctors, researchers, trainers and optometrists have repeatedly
demonstrated that visual skills and abilities can be trained
and perfected just like other physical skills required for success
in sports. Perfect vision while reading an eye chart is NOT
the same as perfect vision while you’re trying to make
contact at the plate.
Within the game of baseball, vision can be defined as reactive
(a youngster facing an incoming pitch), or inhibitory (a trained
player taught to identify the rotation on a curve ball). We
now know that reactive vision skills can be improved, and inhibitory
vision skills can be taught and learned.
Vision is crucial to winning in all sports and these vision
performance exercises and drills should become an integral part
of your training. Every athlete can improve in one or more visual
skill areas such as recognition, dynamic acuity, tracking, visual
focus, and depth perception.
The Science
Your visual perception of a ball in motion is the trigger that
initiates many chain-motor systems within your body. This process
begins with the basic absorption of a component of light, which
is the catalyst to produce what we see. Light is measured in
nonometers and these wavelengths each fall within the range
of the visual color spectrum. Your eye has a primary goal of
shaping incoming stimuli into something you understand. Visual
patterns are converted to neural signals in simple patterns
and images more than 3 times faster than they are with complex
visual patterns or images. This difference in processing time
can affect your reaction time at the plate. The simple visual
image and patterns of the spin on a fastball make it much easier
for the eye to interpret and understand than that of the complicated
image of the curve ball. The ability to hit a fastball easier
than the curve reflects a deficiency in the athlete’s
ability to process the more complex visual patterns. This is
an example of how science can demonstrate the need for visual
acuity, and the need for supplemental vision training!
Practicing the skills and techniques with the tools and drills
in our vision training package will help you to utilize visual
pathways in your brain that detect motion and regulate your
perception of time. These are known in scientific circles as
"magnocellular" and "parvocellular" pathways,
which are processed in your occipital lobe of your brain where
you interpret sight, and the parietal and midbrain lobes where
you perceive space and time.
The Results
Players using the ultimate Vision Training tools and instructional
package end up training these underutilized pathways in the
brain to perform and react. The learned behaviors results in
confidence at the plate that lets the athlete visually connect
with the coming pitch and ignore distracting outside stimuli.
Some people call this getting into “zone”. This
Vision Training package is your ticket to the zone.
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