I’m continuing to work my way through Williams & Jackson’s “Anticipation and Decision Making in Sports. It’s excellent but dense and technical –“I read it so you don’t have to”–so here are some takeaways from the very useful Chapter Five, by Christian Vater et al: “The Role of Peripheral Vision in Sports and Everyday Life.” Vater…
If you’ve read the Coach’s Guide to Teaching, you know how important perception is to decision-making, especially when a decision has to be made faster than about 5-6 hundreths of a second–which is how long it takes to think consciously. Basically a better athlete makes better decisions because his or hereyes are in the right place…
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I came across an interesting article last week on how the Orioles’ farm system is re-thinking batting practice and thought I’d share some reflections here. The article, by Steve Melewski for MASN sports network, describes how the Orioles have reworked bating practice to better prepare and develop hitters. Though the article doesn’t mention it, the changes…
Had the opportunity yesterday to spend an hour taking with a group of female soccer coaches from around the country who are part of a mentoring program put together by Columbus State coach Jay Entlich. The theme of the session was perception and one of the things we discussed was how to coach players in settings…
Last week I posted a couple of videos made by colleagues of mine at New York Red Bulls as they worked remotely with young athletes to develop their perceptive skills. In the videos, a coach asked players to watch for, study and analyze one very focused topic in a sustained way. Today I want to share…