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Effects of visual skills training, vision coaching and sports vision dynamics on the performance of a sport skill
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of three different approaches to improving sports performance through improvements in “sports vision:” (1) a visual skills training programme, (2) traditional vision coaching sessions, and (3) a multi-disciplinary approach identified as sports vision dynamics. Seventy women (ages of 19-24) were matched on the basis of their netball passing skills and their performance on visual skills tests, in order to form four groups of similar abilities. The intervention programmes were conducted in 30-minute sessions, twice a week for five consecutive weeks. Group 1 received vision dynamics; Group 2 received vision coaching; Group 3 received visual skills training; and Group 4 was the control group. All three groups receiving vision enhancement interventions achieved a significant increase in their netball passing speed. Subjects receiving vision dynamics and visual skills training also achieved a significant increase in their passing accuracy. The percentage of improvement in both speed and accuracy gains indicated that the vision dynamics programme produced much greater gains than either of the other two treatment programmes. These results indicate that sports vision dynamics appear to be the most effective approach to helping players maximise their use of vision during sport performance.
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... The results of the study indicate that the combined training group had shown significant improvement in shoulder strength and reaction time among tennis players. This study supports the findings of Justin et al., (2018) [12] , Fernandez et al., (2017) [6] , Playersi et al., (2017) [7] , Terraza et al. (2017) [10] , Ozdemir (2017) [11] , Barber et al. (2015) [5] , Khanal (2015) [14] , Pialoux et al. (2015) [9] , Justy et al., (2015) [13] , Ariel (2013) [2] , Sebastian et al., (2012) [8] , Asuman et al., (2009) [15] and Bressan (2003) [3] . ...
... The results of the study indicate that the combined training group had shown significant improvement in shoulder strength and reaction time among tennis players. This study supports the findings of Justin et al., (2018) [12] , Fernandez et al., (2017) [6] , Playersi et al., (2017) [7] , Terraza et al. (2017) [10] , Ozdemir (2017) [11] , Barber et al. (2015) [5] , Khanal (2015) [14] , Pialoux et al. (2015) [9] , Justy et al., (2015) [13] , Ariel (2013) [2] , Sebastian et al., (2012) [8] , Asuman et al., (2009) [15] and Bressan (2003) [3] . ...
Vision is the first step of information processing and visual skills can improve learning. Time and patience are necessary for the significance of sports vision to be reorganized by every individual participating in sports. The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of game specific training and vision training on Shoulder strength and Reaction time among tennis players. To achieve the purpose of the present study, Forty five male tennis players were randomly selected from Tiruvannamalai district,
... In weiteren Studien wurde ein hybrider Trainingsansatz umgesetzt [4,6]. Laborgestützte, unspezifische Übungen wurden mit sportartspezifischen Trainingseinheiten kombiniert, wobei dem Sportler Hinweise zur Aufnahme und Verarbeitung leistungsrelevanter visueller Informationen (z. ...
... B. Blickstrategien, Antizipation) gegeben wurden. Ein solcher hybrider Ansatz lag beispielsweise der Studie von Bressan [4] zugrunde. Hier erzielten fortgeschrittene Netballspielerinnen die größten Leistungszuwächse bezüglich Passgeschwindigkeit und Genauigkeit, wenn sie zuvor ein kombiniertes Wahrnehmungstraining absolviert hatten. ...
... To date, it is recorded that vision plays an integral part in sports performance, which enhances psychological, perceptive, and physical abilities (1). Vision is an important aspect of field hockey as it provides players with perception, the ability to perform sports-related drills, synchronization between eyes and playing limbs, and also providing action upon the perceived stimuli (3)(4)(5). Visual skills in field hockey simplify an athlete's life by performing tasks such as target identification, scanning of the opponents' playing style, player positioning, reaction to audio-visual signals such as pointing where a ball should be played, and most importantly mastering the hand-eye coordination (6)(7)(8)(9)(10). During the execution of a shot, the player executing the shot has to have a peripheral awareness of who's behind him or her. ...
Context: Field hockey is a very technical and tactical sport, requiring immense levels of visual concentration on moving and stationary targets, which can improve visual and team performance. However, in literature, this area of specialty remains underutilized, with most studies seeking to improve physical and physiological performance. Essential visual skills cannot only be attributed to field hockey but to other ball-playing sports and activities of daily living, which allow humans to coexist. The essential visual skills reduce the propensity of making poor decisions, ill preparations, and the exclusion of potent and capable players. Objectives: This review novelly aims to not only compile a comprehensive list of essential visual skills for field hockey players but also to create a starting point for future studies to add to this list, to aid in player talent identification, and eventually create sport-specific visual exercise programs and testing batteries. Discussion: The skills identified in this review preface a platform for human performance professionals to include in their training regimens, with an intent to maximize performance and talent identification and to aid in the formulation of visuospatial test batteries. Even though this list is comprehensive, this is only a starting point for future research to find more visual skills that are essential to field hockey, as well as provide the opportunity to develop the performance of the visual skills of these athletes in ways that have not been done before.
... It is crucial to comprehend how the visual system works during sport performance in order to decide whether, when, and how sportsmen and sportswomen might be supported to improve their skill performance through vision-based intervention programs (61). Analog "eye fitness" activities were once employed as the first methods of sport visual training (62). These challenging drills forced students to rapidly switch from convergence, accommodation, saccadic, and/or pursuit eye movements to visual targets, placing great demands on the oculomotor system. ...
There is conflicting evidence regarding whether athletes have better visio-spatial skills than non-athletes. This gap may result from athletes’ superiority in only some visio-spatial abilities (VSS), rather than all areas of vision. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a significant difference in the visio-spatial intelligence between female netball players (n = 40) and non-athletes (n = 40) when comparing six visual skills (accommodation facility, saccadic eyemovement, speed of recognition, peripheral awareness, hand-eye coordination, and visual memory). Following an optometric evaluation, the participants were assessed in six distinct established tests, including the hart near far rock, saccadic eye movement, evasion, accumulator, ball wall toss tests, and flash memory, to evaluate the VSS components of non-athletes and premier league netball players. For five of the six tests, there was a statistically significant ( p ≤ 0.05) difference between netball players and non-athletes. Conversely, there is no concrete evidence that netball players have better visual memory than non-athletes ( p = 0.277). When compared to non-athletes, netball players have significantly improved accommodation facility ( p < .001), saccadic eye
movements ( p < .001), speed of recognition ( p < .001), peripheral awareness ( p < .001), and hand-eye coordination ( p < .001), but not visual memory ( p = 0.277). The findings that netball players perform better on a certain VSS have broad ramifications for theories of sport vision, the optimal way to choose tests, and the
creation of VSS testing batteries for specific sports.
... Etal., 2006;Magda Ismaiel. et al, 2006;Bressa, 2003;Fouad & Abdullah, 2005;Hathout & Sawy, 2008). So the aim of current study is determine the ...
... This means that the cricket players showed significant improvements in, for example, peripheral vision, ball skills, concentration, focus flexibility and coordination. This study used the sports vision dynamics method (Bressan, 2003) which includes sports optometry, coaching, biomechanics, motor control and psychology of perception. Studies also demonstrated that superior visual skills are closely related to superior performance, such as the identification of pitches in baseball (Reichow et al., 2011) and better decision-making in soccer refereeing (Ghasemi et al., 2011). ...
The aim of this study was to investigate whether a sports vision training program improves the visual performance of youth male field hockey players, ages 12 to 16 years, after an intervention of six weeks compared to a control group with no specific sports vision training. The choice reaction time task at the D2 board (Learning Task I), the functional field of view task (Learning Task II) and the multiple object tracking (MOT) task (Transfer Task) were assessed before and after the intervention and again six weeks after the second test. Analyzes showed significant differences between the two groups for the choice reaction time task at the D2 board and the functional field of view task, with significant improvements for the intervention group and none for the control group. For the transfer task, we could not find statistically significant improvements for either group. The results of this study are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications. Key pointsPerceptual training with youth field hockey playersCan a sports vision training program improve the visual performance of youth male field hockey players, ages 12 to 16 years, after an intervention of six weeks compared to a control group with no specific sports vision training?The intervention was performed in the "VisuLab" as DynamicEye(®) SportsVision Training at the German Sport University Cologne.We ran a series of 3 two-factor univariate analysis of variance (ANOVA) with repeated measures on both within subject independent variables (group; measuring point) to examine the effects on central perception, peripheral perception and choice reaction time.The present study shows an improvement of certain visual abilities with the help of the sports vision training program.
... This means that the cricket players showed significant improvements in, for example, peripheral vision, ball skills, concentration, focus flexibility and coordination. This study used the sports vision dynamics method (Bressan, 2003) which includes sports optometry, coaching, biomechanics, motor control and psychology of perception. Studies also demonstrated that superior visual skills are closely related to superior performance, such as the identification of pitches in baseball (Reichow et al., 2011) and better decision-making in soccer refereeing (Ghasemi et al., 2011). ...
The aim of this study was to investigate whether a sports vision training program improves the visual performance of youth male field hockey players, ages 12 to 16 years, after an intervention of six weeks compared to a control group with no specific sports vision training. The choice reaction time task at the D2 board (Learning Task I), the functional field of view task (Learning Task II) and the multiple object tracking (MOT) task (Transfer Task) were assessed before and after the intervention and again six weeks after the second test. Analyzes showed significant differences between the two groups for the choice reaction time task at the D2 board and the functional field of view task, with significant improvements for the intervention group and none for the control group. For the transfer task, we could not find statistically significant improvements for either group. The results of this study are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications.
In ball sports such as soccer, the visual system is critical in guiding a player’s search for crucial information that underpins skillful behavior, which requires the incorporation of all of the relevant information in the environment in order to make successful decisions under pressure. However, vision in sport, and focusing on the specific visual skills required to be successful in a particular sport has largely been a practice ignored by experts and coaches as being an essential component of athletic performance. This is the first attempt to summarize and compile the necessary visual skills for soccer. This review’s evidence suggests that, while current research still tends to focus on visual
skills as a whole, there is a need to streamline this focus to the necessities of a particular sport. Furthermore, in identifying the visual skills essential for soccer, it allows for the effective training and testing of these skills, as well as for talent identification.
Training to optimize visual performance abilities is a logical supplement to other training programs that athletes perform in order to improve sports performance in competition. An overview of how to develop and successfully implement sports vision training is presented. A detailed description of common sports vision training approaches is provided with research evidence to support efficacy, when available. Updates on commercially available instrumentation to train various visual performance abilities is presented.
The study intended to ƒOnd out the effect of vision training among skill ability of University level male football players. A total of 20 healthy male university level football players were selected for the purpose of study. They were of the age between 18 to 24 years with normal vision. The participants were randomly categorised into two groups: Group I- experimental (n=10), Group IIcontrol (n=10). To assess the skill ability of football players McDonald soccer skill test was conducted as pre-test for both experimental and control groups. Various speciƒOc vision training (Depth perception, Ocular motility, Quick Exposure, Opaque lifesaver card, Dice pursuits, Nearfar chart, Gaze work, Vergennes, Tracking and Focusing) was assigned to the experimental group for a period of eight weeks with training of ƒOve days in a week; whereas the control group did not undergo any treatment. After eight weeks of vision training programme the post-test was conducted for experimental and control group. The collected data on selected criterion variable was statistically analysed by using't' ratio. The result of the present study revealed that there was signiƒOcant improvement in skill ability of experimental group due to vision training. The hypothesis was accepted at 0.05 conƒOdence level. It was concluded that eight weeks of vision training programme helped to improve the skill ability of experimental group. The control group had seen no improvement in skill ability.
Athletes need excellent vision to perform well in their sports, and many athletes have turned to vision training programs as a way to augment their traditional training regimen. The growing practice of ‘sports vision training’ relies on the notion that practice with demanding visual perceptual, cognitive, or oculomotor tasks can improve the ability to process and respond to what is seen, thereby improving sport performance. This enterprise is not necessarily new, but has been advanced greatly in the past few years by new digital technology that can be deployed during natural training activities, by perceptual-learning-inspired training programs, and by virtual reality simulations that can recreate and augment sporting contexts to promote certain sports-specific visual and cognitive abilities. These improved abilities may, in turn, instill a competitive advantage on the playing field, underscoring the potential value of these approaches. This article reviews emerging approaches, technologies and trends in sports vision training. Where available, critical review of supporting research is provided.
Stereo web cameras can be used to obtain depth information about a scene. The maps produced using this procedure are prone to missing depth values, more so than when using a commercial stereo web camera. Post-processing can be used to find approximations for unknown depth values. In this paper we describe four techniques for approximating missing depth values and compare their effectiveness. A large median filter which considered only known pixel values has achieved promising results showing an increase in the proportion of valued pixels and decrease in the number of connected regions. A large median filter and use of a close operator have also both decreased the number of connected regions although they both increased the proportion of unknown pixels.
يهدف هذا البحث إلى التعرف على تأثير تدريب العين المهيمنة على كل من سرعة استجابة اليد والقدم المهيمنة واليد والقدم الغير مهيمنة لدى لاعبات الكرة الطائرة .
وقد استخدم الباحث المنهج التجريبى وتكونت عينة البحث العمدية من مجموعة واحدة قوامها (15) لاعبة من طالبات كلية التربية الرياضية – جامعة المنيا – المشاركات فى فريق الكلية للعبة الكرة الطائرة للعام الجامعى 2008/2009م ، وقد تم تطبيق برنامج التدريبات البصرية المقترحة للعين المهيمنة لمدة ثمانية أسابيع ، وأظهرت النتائج أن برنامج التدريب البصرى المقترح للعين المهيمنة له تأثير إيجابى على سرعة استجابة اليد والقدم (المهيمنة / الغير مهيمنة) ، وأن الفروق بين نسب التحسن المئوية لسرعة استجابة اليد والقدم ( المهيمنة / الغير مهيمنة) كانت لصالح اليد والقدم المهيمنة.
ومن أهم التوصيات ضرورة الاهتمام بالتدريبات البصرية سواء للعين المهيمنة أو الغير مهيمنة فى ضوء طبيعة ونمط الهيمنة (الطرفية و العكسية) لما لهما من تأثير على الأداء .
The aim of this research To recognize the impact of the dominant eye training on both hand and foot speed response of dominant and non dominant hand and foot in volleyball players.
The researcher use heuristic research sample consisted of one group of intentional (15) Player from physical education college students participating in the Minia University College team to play volleyball for the academic year 2008/2009,Application of Visual training programme proposed for the dominant eye for eight weeks,
The results showed that visual training programme proposed for the dominant eye is having a positive impact on the hand and foot speed response (dominant/non dominant), although differences between percentages percentage improvement of hand and foot speed response (dominant/non dominant) For the dominant hand and foot.
One of the most important recommendations The need for attention to Visual exercises for both dominant or non dominant eye in light of the nature and pattern of (Uncrossed, Crossed) domination for their impact on performance.
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