Vision, just like speed and strength, is an important ingredient in how well you play your sport. Your vision is composed of many skills, and just as exercise and practice can increase your speed and strength, it can improve your vision skills.

DYNAMIC VISION

Baseball performance is directly related to how well you see when the ball is in motion, you are in motion, and/or both you and the ball are in motion. Reduced Dynamic Vision ability results in slower mind and body reactions; whereas superior Dynamic Vision results in faster body reactions. It’s required to hit high-speed pitches with consistency.

VISUAL CONCENTRATION

When you commit an error on an easy ground ball, it may be that you are distracted by things that are happening around you. Our eyes normally react to anything that happens in our field of vision....spectators, other participants and even the wind blowing leaves on an overhanging branch. Visual Concentration is the ability to stay focused on the ball or the target to the degree that you are unaware of potential distractions.

DYNAMIC EYE MOVEMENTS

In baseball, the eyes must search using multiple forms of eye movements, including saccades (quick switches), pursuits (smooth tracking), vergences (focusing the fourteen muscles for clarity) and require the supreme skill of fixation (the ability to stop all eye movements and look at one specific spot) and release (the ability to move on to the next fixation spot). Reduced Eye Movement ability results in slower mind and body reactions.

DYNAMIC RECOGNITION AND ACCURACY OF IDENTIFICATION

Decisions are made on visual information interpreted within less than 100 milliseconds (.1 seconds). An improvement gives more time for making an accurate decision. Reduced Dynamic Recognition and Accuracy of Identification ability results mistakes in judgment and in slower mind and body reactions.

VISUAL SEARCH, RECOGNITION AND RECALL SKILLS

As a baseball player you must constantly be searching for information, recognize it, search further, and remember what you saw. If you don’t know what to look for, you may not see it even if it is right in front of you. On the other hand, if you know what to look for, your awareness will improve. This module trains how to look for an object and how to see it multiple times within a sequence of objects. It requires high-speed recognition skills, similar to the requirement of early recognition of a pitch.

VISUAL MEMORY

We think in pictures. Our memory is based on pictures and typically a sequence of pictures. We also anticipate in a sequence of pictures. Quick perception, rapid and accurate thoughts and decisions precede most of your actions on the field. This module tests the speed of your ability to remember, to think in pictures in a sequence.

This is called visual memory. The athlete with good visual memory always seems to be in the right place at the right time.

VISION REACTION TIME

The pitcher releases the ball and you swing...a little late and you hit a weak foul down the line...or worse you miss the ball completely. Or, maybe you just can't quite return that tennis serve. You need to improve your visual reaction time, or the speed with which your brain interprets and reacts to your opponent's action.

SPEED OF THOUGHT

This module tests the speed and span of your ability to recall pictures you have seen. It requires quick eye movements in order to see the complete span. This module also trains quick perception, rapid and accurate, thoughts and decisions similar to the requirements of thought and decision making as required by most of your actions on the field.

DEPTH PERCEPTION (Trained with 3D Depth Perception and Tracking Trainer)

Superior Depth Perception is what allows a hitter to see the velocity of a pitch, as well as the rate of change of the velocity of the pitch. This ability is a critical element a hitter’s ability to time a high quality swing with the proper contact point. Generally, a player with superior depth perception can adjust to high velocity pitchers and/or to location and change of speed pitchers. Likewise, a player with superior general depth perception can succeed as a pinch hitter, a part-time player and is effective at recovering his hitting skills upon being out of the lineup.

FOCUS FLEXIBILITY

The split second that it takes, you to change focus from an object far away to one near you may delay your reaction time.

EYE-MIND-BODY COORDINATION (EMB)

EMB Coordination is how your eyes, mind and body and other muscles respond to the information gathered. It is an important part of most sports because it affects both timing and body control. It isn’t good enough to simply have the ability to coordinate all your body parts in response to your eyes, but seeing high speed action in a manner that it appears to be in slow motion is a must for high speed games.

VISUALIZATION

Visualization is the skill that enables you to see yourself performing well in your "mind's eye". picturing yourself doing it can actually help you do it. Using scanning techniques, researchers have found that the same areas of the brain that light up during performance also do so when you visualize the performance.

PERIPHERAL VISION

When a player sees something out of the corner of his eye, he is using his peripheral vision. Since much of what happens in sports does not happen directly in front of you, it's important to increase your ability to see action to the side without having to turn your head.