The visual system is an essential part of the sensory system that is utilized in performing sports skills such as fielding and catching. Sports such as softball and baseball require an incredible amount of visual acuity and eye-hand coordination. Although, “eyesight is one of the key components in sports, athletes and coaches do not implement visual training into their training program” (Sivak, 1989). Rezaee, Ghasemi & Momeni (2012), state that the lack of visual training in sports is due to insufficient research findings showing a significance of the visual system in the success of athlete’s performance. Previous research has only been conducted in laboratories and clinical setting with heavy expense for the athletes, (Cross et. Al, 2011). …show more content…
Al, 2011). The human visual system relates to the muscular-skeletal system in that it responds to overload principle, (Rezaee, Ghasemi, & Momeni, 2012). The overload principle is described by the adaption the body experiences as the workload increases in frequency or intensity. It seems apparent that the overload principle can be applied to sports and that training sessions that overload the perceptual-visual, visual-motor and kinesthetic senses can lead to the improvement in readiness for competition, (Khanal, 2015). With little research in the field of sports environments, this current study will determine the effects of stroboscopic training with high school softball players performance on fielding and catching ground balls. Uncovering the effects of stroboscopic training may serve as an injury prevention or conditioning that can improve performance. In the movie, Major League the experience of baseball pitcher, Ricky Vaughn, provides a notable example of the interaction between vision and sports. A 99-mph fastball doesn’t mean much when you can’t see it well enough to hit or catch it, (Horn, Edmunds, & Daniels, …show more content…
All players on the Cincinnati Baseball team received normal preseason physicals and baseline tests. Before the baseball season started, the hitters, picked by head coach Brian Cleary, were given standard vision training exercises for 6 weeks. Observational methods were used in this study to compare batting statistics of the 2010 and 2011 team. In this study, researchers used various different method of vison training such as Dynavision, Tachistoscope, Brook Sting, Eyeport, Rotary, Strobe Glasses, Near Far Training and Saccades. It was found that the batting average went from 0.251 to 0.285 before and after vision training, (Clark et al., 2012). The vision training experienced by the Cincinnati baseball team showed a 0.034 improvement in batting average. The causal relationship of each individual batter’s improvement also increased the teams batting average from 12th in the Big East to a 4th place tie, (Clark et al, 2012). Overall the results of this study show a positive effect of vision training on batting. Because this relationship exists, it is noted that this effect could relate to other parts of the
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It’s fair to say that a good baseball game can lie in the hands of the pitcher. According to an article by the American Journal of Sports Medicine, 50 percent of professional baseball pitchers experience elbow or shoulder pain due to the way they throw the ball. Because not much research has been done on professional baseball athletes, the purpose of this publication was to find at what point in the pitcher’s technique does most of the damage occur. The study began by taking 40 pro-baseball pitchers, all ranging from the age of 23-33 years old with relatively the same height and weight. Also, thirty-two of the 40 selected are right-hand dominant. Then they placed 3 cameras in different parts of the field. These cameras would take still frames of the pitchers and their technique when throwing the ball. They found that at the point where there is maximum rotation (aka the cocking phase) the distraction force was low.
Baseball is known as America’s national pastime, and has been played for over 100 years. Baseball can be a lot of fun, but is also extremely challenging to play, especially when trying to hit a 90 mile per hour fastball. I am a very devoted baseball player myself, and over the years I have learned numerous key things about the game. Baseball does not only require physical strength to hit and throw the ball, but it also requires a great mindset, such as, mental preparedness, concentration, and a positive attitude. Mental preparedness separates the average baseball player from the elite ones.
Through college Eric Davis was a baseball player who was forever looking for a way to improve his pitch, or how he could train better for longer without consequences to his body. “I was constantly looking for new ways to improve my body, or the way I did things. I was always interested in finding how much I could do without causing injury.” (Davis)
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Imagining myself as a high school soccer coach, I would like to optimize my team’s kicking performance. Some players consistently kick the ball successfully with the correct use of power and accuracy. To ensure that all players are able to achieve the same optimal kicking habits, this paper will document (1) the effective and ineffective habits of kicking, (2) describe biomechanical based kicking assessments, (3) describe how these assessments will measure the effective aspects of kicking and expected findings, and (4) provide suggestions on how I may modify programming based on the insights gained from these assessments.
Sports specialization among young people is when a child or teenager trains for and competes in only one sport. They work extremely hard year-round in order to become well-rounded in every aspect of the game. They make sacrifices and put their health in jeopardy in order to become the ultimate participant in their sport. One of the many young athletes who is only participating in and focusing on one sport is fifteen-year-old OJ Mayo from Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the young talented athlete who is predicted to be the next LeBron James in the National Basketball Association (NBA). This young athlete provides evidence of striving for perfection in this single sport when reviewing his daily schedule versus that of his siblings. He says, “The other kids go home and sleep. I come back to the gym” (Thompson, 2004). He is obviously putting forth a lot of effort in his sport to become successful at an early age.
athletes negatively present off of the playing field. As athletes train to become more aggressive,
Pressure is placed on athletes to perform better. The fierce competitive nature of the real sports world in with the peoples excellence has caused athletes to seek alternative means to ...
Athletes must accomplish amazing feats of balance and coordination of the body. As scientist, Mikhail Tsaytin discovered in the 1970s, acrobats can successfully make a two person human tower in the dark, but after adding a third acrobat, not even the most talented can maintain the balance required to keep the tower intact while in the dark (1). What does darkness have to do with it? The point is that balance relies on at least three signals coming from the body, and one of those is sight. Once you eliminate one of these signals, the body cannot accomplish the required task. In addition to sight, signals coming from muscles and joints, called proprioceptors are sensitive to changes in position. The third contributor to the human tower and the topic of discussion of this paper is the vestibular system. A three-person human tower in the dark must not have enough information coming from the vestibular and proprioceptive systems to function without vision, whereas the two-person tower did have enough information.
Creative new training methods, developed by coaches, athletes and sport scientists, are aimed to help improve the quality and quantity of athletic training ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). However, these methods have encountered a consistent set of barriers including overtraining ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1). Due to these barriers, the need for physical and mental recovery in athletics brought an increasing attention in practice and in research ( Kellmann, 2010, p.1).
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Sports are often identified to have positive influences on many individuals. The sports industry is growing worldwide, especially the basketball industry, which is regarded in second place behind football. The global prevalence of basketball is unquestionable, especially among the young. Basketball is a dynamic team sport that involves a pattern of alternating, active, and skilled movement activities. There are compound demands that require a mixture of individual skills, team plays, strategies, and motivational aspects.
The movie Coach Carter is a drama sports film about the game of basketball that was made in the year 2005. This movie identified themes such as commitment, teamwork, leadership, sportsmanship, education, work ethics and life skills.
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