Sports Vision Training (SVT) for baseball

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Many of us are aware of the tools being marketed with a promise to improve ‘sports vision’. In this case a hitting sport. No doubt all components of sports vision are required to execute the task successfully in a hitting sport. But the question remains, as how this ability is trained. I would agrue that hitters in baseball train their dynamic vision while hitting the ball itself. So how are these various tools like
www.visualedge.com, beads, strings etc. useful? Comments anyone?

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Any input on this subject anyone?

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Are you sure that’s the correct link to the topic on hand or is it just some innocent spam?

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That is a link of a website selling some tools for SVT called visualedge. It could be quackery.

I would be interested in hear from the experts here on what they think of SVT.

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No it isn’t. It’s a company that sells printers. Maybe you wanted:

http://www.vizualedge.com/

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Juggler : oops ! I am sorry, I goofed the url. Thanks for the right link. Yes thats the website I meant :slight_smile:

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I was looking for some insight on the concept of sports vision training, not necessarily the products on that website.

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It looks pretty good but seems kind of expensive per workout.

I’m going to send the link to a friend who is a goaltender and see if it interests him at all.

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Thanks Plook here is another url to a detailed write up on the same subject

http://www.pponline.co.uk/encyc/sports-vision.html

The only issue is that optometry is somewhat a dubious science while orthoptics is a proven method.

So how does sports vision improve in a hitting sport, is it all specificity? i.e. hitting the ball or will optometry help? Experiences anyone?

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I can’t believe how stupid I am.

I have an eye surgeon who’s a client of mine.

I’ll see him Friday morning and ask him. Unless of course someone needs emergency surgury.

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Ok so I showed him the vizualedge site and he said it looked ok. It reminded him of the flight sims they have in a way.

The short of it is he said that you’d be way better off juggling.

So save your money and buy some balls!!! Or chainsaws

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Thanks Plook, makes sense :smiley: