Baseball

Train your visual skills to improve your performance.

Visual skills you need:

Hitting a pitched baseball requires many skills, however you can't hit what you can't see. Players with efficient visual skills have visual confidence at the plate. In order to hit a pitched ball, a player must clearly see the location, motion, and rotation of the ball. Training the speed and efficiency of the two eyes moving together helps players keep their eyes on the ball.

When fielding fly balls, line drives and grounders, players use information from their eyes to react. Visual information influences every player’s decisions on the field based on what the player “sees” happening and their interpretation of the play.

Baseball Teams Using the VEPT

Baseball Vision Performance Testimonials

The University of Southern Mississippi-Hattisburg

This is Dr. Brian Gearity Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Mississippi.

I want to tell you little bit about the Vizual Edge program. As a former intern strength and conditioning coach for the Cleveland Indians baseball company, we were one of the first professional baseball team is using the Vizual Edge program. At the time we had success using the program and since then the program is been improved considerably.

The Vizual Edge staff have done a fantastic job by continuously developing their visual skills training software program. It takes only about 2 sessions to really get a feel for the program and to show other people how to use it. You can change the program settings to make it easier or harder depending on the ability of the athlete.

From 2001 until 2009 when I was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at the University of Tennessee and head baseball strength coach, we were one of the first universities to extensively evaluate and use their program. I am happy to say that the positive feedback from the players and the increase in performance is a major factor for us to committing to using the program a large scale basis.

At UT, like any other other leading sport program, we were always looking at obtaining the winning edge with all our sports such as baseball softball, tennis, basketball and football. The Vizual Edge staff is great to work with and we've had them come to UT to conduct evaluations with our players. However, after using the program it doesn't take very long for coach or trainer to figure out how to evaluate their own athletes in about 12 to 15 minutes.

Also, I completed course work for a minor while in graduate school and one of the things I did was to test for difference in the teams that we evaluated at UT. Let's just say there was statistically significant difference among the 2 teams, and it couldn't happen by chance. What that means is that the Vizual Edge program is a valid and reliable way of conducting Visual Skills Assessment and Training.

Currently as an assistant professor at Southern Miss, we're preparing to conduct research using the Vizual Edge program to assess visual skills in collegiate baseball players and look at its relationship to other key performance variables such as hitting power.

I would recommend that anyone wanting to use the program just call the Vizual Edge staff. They truly care about what they do and helping student athletes. Visual skills, I think, can seem a bit mysterious because most of us don't read about them in traditional strength and conditioning or athletic training books. However, we always talk about hand-eye coordination, but sometimes we really don't know what that means or what that entails. The Vizual Edge program teaches you and trains the muscles that control the eyes to work more efficiently. Their motto is "Weight Training for the Eyes". We have to remember that eye muscles, like all other muscles, control human movement, that we can strengthen eye muscles to make them work more efficiently which will lead to improved performance.

Please feel free to contact me if you wish to discuss the program further. I'd be happy to talk about it in more detail. Thank you.

Dr. Brian Gearity
Assistant Strength
& Conditioning Coach
Ph.D., C.S.C.S

Chase Headley, San Diego Padres

Hi,

I'm Chase Headley, third basemen of the San Diego Padres. One of the most important, yet over looked aspects in baseball is vision. I was introduced to the Vizual Edge program while attending the University of TN over six years ago. I was surprised to learn that although i I have better than 20/20 vision there are other important aspects of sight that I needed to and could ultimately improve on.

Vizual Edge is a one of a kind program that focuses on tracking, sight recognition, quick decision making and other important visual skills vital to success in baseball and other sports. I highly recommend the program to players of all ability levels that are looking to take their game to the next level.

Chase Headley
third basemen of the San Diego Padres

Adam Rosales, Oakland A’s

Hello, my name is Adam Rosales and I play baseball for the Oakland A’s. I was drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in 2005 and was introduced to the Vizual Edge Program by our player development department that summer in Billings Montana. Over the years I have continued incorporating these crucial eye exercises into my everyday routine.

These eye exercises not only strengthen muscles in my eyes, but more importantly they enhance my level of concentration,confidence, and improve my ability to focus; not only giving me the physical edge on my game but the mental edge as well.

Vizual Edge provides many variations of exercises which replicate real game situations, where you must make quick, accurate and correct decisions. They are very simple and interactive exercises which transfer into great results.

Adam Rosales
Third Baseman,
Cincinnati Reds

Strength and Conditioning Coach

I'm Fernando Montes, a user of the Vizual Edge training program for over 10 years. During my career as a Strength and Conditioning Coach for the Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers, the need to seek cutting-edge technology was at the top of my priority list. The Vizual Edge training program is the real deal. I found it to be useful, user-friendly, provide accurate, statistical evaluation and, when needed, great support when I had no answers to the questions that were proposed to me. Not only am I sold on the product, but there's great potential in the hands of quality coaches. This is just another tool for us to use in our arsenal as we find new and cutting edge technology to enhance our coaching capabilities. I highly recommend this product to anyone. If you have any questions feel free to reach out, not only to Vizual Edge, but to Fernando Montes. Thank you so much and have a great day.

Fernando Montes
Former Strength and Conditioning Coach
Cleveland Indians and Texas Rangers

St. Xavier High School

I have had the opportunity of using and incorporating the Vizual Edge Trainer within my programs. I was the Head Strength and Conditioning Coordinator for the Cincinnati Reds from 2002-2004 and currently the strength and conditioning coordinator at St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati.

"As a major league conditioning coordinator responsible for a major league program, minor league system and Latin American academies, you are always looking to find the cutting edge research, software and training techniques, to give your athletes the best chance of success.

"During our research we discovered that a baseball player's vision plays an important part in how well he performs day in and day out. Much like the physical development programs we designed to develop our players strength, speed and quickness, we could now incorporate vision training as part of their training routines.

"The Vizual Edge Program proved to us that visual skills can be taught, trained, practiced and enhanced. The benefits of the program are simple, to provide visual skills and training. The initial evaluation is approximately 30 minutes. The assessment provides a specific profile of the athletes strength and weaknesses. Once the athlete knows his strengths and weaknesses the program can be designed specifically for him. The training sessions usually take 20 to 30 minutes and should be performed at least twice a week.

"We had great success with the program and our athletes looked forward to vision training. I'm in the process of incorporate Vizual Edge into our strength and conditioning programs at St. X. I believe that the younger we can expose our athletes to vision training, the less they will have to compensate with their vision later in their athletic careers.

Carlo Alvarez
Strength and Conditioning Coord.
St. Xavier High School
2005 Ohio Division I
Football State

San Diego Padres

Hi, I am Greg Riddoch.

Being a proactive thinker and teacher, I always knew vision was an important component of performance in the classroom and on field. While instructing my baseball and softball student athletes I did not know how to address this component of the game until I found Vizual Edge.

In the past, when I was the Manager of the San Diego Padres this technology was not available. Vizual Edge would have been an essential tool as part of our complete training program.

While I was with the Milwaukee Brewers, the team incorporated Vizual Edge as part of the player development and scouting programs. It gave us a competitive edge over our competition.

I use the Vizual Edge software to illustrate visual strengths and weakness to parents and athletes as part of my hitting instruction. You can spend hundreds of dollars on equipment but unless you can see the ball and react to it properly, that bat or glove is not going to help you perform better.

Greg Riddoch
former Major League Manager
San Diego Padres
1990-1992

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