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It is the way of our times for things to change faster and faster, speed and agility training is no exception.   Some see it as the biggest breakthrough in athletic training and speed and agility training in decades.   We have to thank a class of people called contrarians for the development of training protocols applicable to previously thought of as untrainable characteristics. This training is now a staple for athletes wanting to enter the NFL Combine (a camp in which professional football teams assess NFL draft candidates).   Sports Vision training.  It deals with your speed of reaction, your ability to process information on the court, tempo or timing and even goes into things such as depth perception. The training comes from the premise that athletes react to what they can see.   An athlete must be able to see, react and anticipate the next move of the opponent, the better and faster he or she can do that, the better the athlete will be.
Most improper reactions on the field have a simple cause — lack of sports vision training.    In this highly competitive era simple speed and agility training that lead to “just” very fast atletes is no longer sufficient. Exercises that involve the mind: such as span of recognition, game field view and reaction time training are no longer optional.  There is a more than ever need for atletes to visually process their surroundings faster. They must improve their reaction times and their reflexes. Without these, they will simply be left behind.

One of the key points of the rapidly growing popularity of sports vision training is that it leads to an incresed performance in visual imagery processing capacity even when under high stress — such as during an important game.  While there are no true standards since the field is so new, below are some of the sports vision training topics and what they cover:

* awareness of peripheral surroundings – dealing with seeing the things that are out of focus – out of the corner of the eye in popular lingo

* dealing with the ability to process visual imagery we have visual reaction time – it’s upside is that it can help atletes get the picture (and what they need to do about it) faster

* how many moving objects the player can deal with and how well he can take them into account is called dynamic visual acuity    * called eye tracking, this previously untrainable characteristic improves the capacity of an athlete to “keep his eye on the ball”, at faster and faster speeds
* eye focusing – the ability to quickly change focus accurately from different distances

* depth perception – knowing exactly where an object is allows you to catch, kick or dodge that object

* fusing flexibility and stamina – not the best chosen name, but what is does is amazing, it permits your eyes to function at optimum capacity for longer times, this means that players will still be able to process their visual information at optimum parameters – even at the end of a tiring game
Keep an eye out for Sport Vision Training, you will hear about it in a few years when it becomes mainstream.  Above all, it proves the once thought to be natural ability to see the floor or field, or keeping your eye on the ball can be learned and applied.

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