Plus Justin Stone of elitebaseball.tv answers the Question Of The Week about how to teach pitching to 9-year-olds, and Austin Wasserman of WassermanStrength.com introduces side lunge slides in his Wass Strength Tip Of The Week.
In this 51-minute episode, you'll learn:
- what visual alignment is and how to spot the weak areas
- how to detect contrast sensitivity and why that's important in a game
- how to improve contrast sensitivity
- how peripheral vision is relevant in baseball
- how to improve a player's pitch recognition ability
- how to improve reaction time
- whether video games help reaction time or not
- how to build a progression for vision training
Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Curveballs and peripheral vision
- Sports vision rings
- John's Sports Vision Training web site
- John's Baseball United Foundation web site
- Wass Strength's Side Lunge Slide
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