Train your visual skills to improve your performance.
- Improve your perception of speed and direction when playing volleys, baseline drives, return of serve and overheads.
- Increase your ability to track the ball and react quickly to its direction.
- Improve your eye alignment for more accurate fixation on
the ball. - Improve eye flexibility - shifting from far to near when returning a serve or ground stroke.
- Increase depth perception of the ball’s position in free space.
- Improve concentration.
- By training your visual tracking skills you will have better eye-hand coordination and reaction time.
- By training the eye movements your quick instinctive movements will improve.
- Read the timing and placement of the ball with more accuracy.
- Improve your court awareness, including your position in relation to sidelines, baseline, service line and net.
- Make quicker decisions to better position yourself in relation to
the ball. - Position your racquet more accurately.
- Determine the position of your opponent in the opposite court.
- When your eyes move quickly and efficiently the body also moves in a more controlled way.
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Study indicates a significant positive relationship between visual skills and tennis performance
The Relationship Between Visual Skills and Tennis Performance of NCAA Divis
by: Frank Spaniol
(1/15/2011)
The results of Sport Science Research Laboratory study indicates that the highest ranked tennis players possessed the best VEPT scores, highest VEPT rank, most correct visual tracking percent, and fastest visual recognition response time.
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Top International Tennis Athletes Add Vision Training to their Routine
That Extra Edge
by: Marjorie Conley
Tennis Belguim (4/8/2010)
USTA regional training center advocates that elite junior players get evaluated and trained with the Vizual Edge Performance Trainer.
Swiss researchers have concluded that expert tennis players, like their own Roger Federer, have an a
Top Tennis Players Simply See Better
by: Dan Peterson, LiveScience's Sports Columnist
LiveScience (9/10/2009)
Dan Peterson, LiveScience's Sports Columnist summarizes recent research which indicates that athletes who develop their visual performance skills enjoy a competitive advantage.
Des clubs de baseball utilisent des logiciels pour améliorer la vision de leurs athlètes.
L'entrainement visuel, l'avenir du sport?
by: Seth Stevenson
Slate France (6/10/2009)
Barry Seiller (l'ophtalmologiste qui a conçu le logiciel Vizual Edge en 2002) a réalisé des analyses et des tests d'acuité visuelle pour différentes équipes (les Houston Astros, les San Diego Padres, les Cincinnati Reds et autres Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers ainsi que les hockeyeurs des Chicago Blackhawks); il a fait de même pour quelques programmes de sport universitaires et pour plusieurs sportifs participant aux Jeux olympiques. (Les équipes de bobsleigh développent leur capacité de convergence afin de mieux évaluer les angles d'entrée et de sortie dans les courbes de vitesse des pistes.) «Les athlètes de haut niveau jouissent d'une acuité visuelle développée», si l'on en croit Seiller. Selon lui, rien qu'en analysant les résultats obtenus par des joueurs de la Minor League sur le Vizual Edge, il a souvent pu deviner lesquels auraient les meilleurs moyennes à la batte.
High School Athletes Improve Performance on Court and In Classroom with Vision Training
Athletes reap benefits of Vizual Edge
by: MARK PERLMAN
Deerfield-Review.com (8/9/2007)
"Evaluating and training visual skills provides a new tool to allow high school athletes to make it to the next level of play," said Dr. Seiller, who also performs Lasik surgery. "The earlier they are exposed to this training, the more impact it can have on their sports career." Deerfield High School was the first high school in the country to use this type of training for more than one athletic program.
Vision training for athletes evolved from reading therapies developed decades ago to help children
A Little Flabby Around the Eyeballs
by: GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
New York Times (2/5/2006)
Vision training for athletes evolved from reading therapies developed decades ago to help children with learning disabilities and people with amblyopia ("lazy eye") concentrate and follow lines of text. Unlike exercises designed to strengthen eye muscles, reading therapy works to improve the eye-brain connection. Sports vision therapy takes it one step further. "It's about eye-hand-foot-body-brain coordination," says Dr. Barry Seiller, an ophthalmologist who is Brett Basanez's vision specialist and the director of the Visual Fitness Institute in Vernon Hills, Ill. "Maybe you foul off the ball a lot, or you have all the technical skills but somehow just can't put it together. You go into slumps. You fail in the clutch. All of that, to us, screams 'visual problems."'
Athletes who are seeking an edge, should add vision training to their fitness regimen.
The Eyes Have It
by: Barry L Seiller, MD; Kathleen Puchalski, RN; and Bryan Shelton, USPTA
Tennis Life Magazine (8/1/2004)
Most tennis coaches recognize the significant role that vision and visual skills have on their players' performance. Many coaches and trainers have searched for a method to improve players' visual skills and abilities, knowing that "if you can't see the b
