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Recently we went and visited one of our pro guys to do some vision training (roadtrip). It was nice to see him doing well, but there was a lot that came out of the visit, to see him in his element during the daily grind and really helped us in terms of further customizing our vision training for our athletes. Whenever you hear the word "customized" you really equate that with more money that you're going to have to shell out, but that's a topic for another post. During the visit we asked him how he was seeing, how his vision drills have been going, etc. Nothing out of the ordinary, but he did mention that doing the drills helped him stay sharper focused during certain aspects of the game where your mind can wander.
After we left he called me and said that his agent called to let him know how much better his splits were during day games. In hopes to further develop the Sports Vision Training field, we started to look at his splits and see how much better he was hitting during day games. It was crazy! He was hitting a good 50 points higher during day games! So we dug a little deeper... during day games at his home field he was hitting over .400 which means that during day games away he was hitting .240. So much to analyze! So much to figure out!
This led us to analyze how the stadium is structured from a batters perspective; what does the hitter see behind the pitcher when the ball is released? Is there a dark or light background? Is it solid or mixed? If there is more of a neutral background, how does that effect his hitting? If you're one of the 2 people that read this blog, you'll know that our sole purpose is to get our athletes better through focus on their vision and sensory processing system. If that means that we provide different tinted lenses for our athletes for different stadiums, then so be it. It may mean that certain pitchers release points will require different lenses during each game. This is our next step in further customizing what we do for our athletes. We've perfected the training, now it's time to take what we know to the next level.
