Download Basketball and Vision

The TrainYourEyes test itself involves:
• Questions regarding vision, co-ordination and balance
• Depth perception
- if the depth perception is not optimal, the ability to estimate
distances will be impaired
• Tendencies of misjudging distances
- if e.g. judging too short, you will have a tendency to arrive too
early at the ball and make too soft passes. On the other hand, if
you aim too far, you will be too slow and have a tendency of
shooting the ball too hard.
• Tendencies of double vision in different sight directions
- if you are seeing double in e.g. the upwards and left sight
direction, estimating a ball at that particular angle will be
difficult. A player suffering from this problem will often
experience that catching the ball at a certain sight direction –
often at an angle-being difficult.
• Dominant eye – the aiming eye
- When standing at an angle, for instance in penalty situations, the
left eye will be at the front. But if the right eye is the aiming
eye,it will be the one primarily measuring the distance and
‘signalling’ to the brain. It is not significant, whether the
binocular vision is fully optimal, but if the left eye is not quite
optimized, it will lead to a shifting of the estimation of distance.
Try it yourself by looking at a certain point 6 Metres away or
even further away. Hold your fingers up in front of you with the
arms taut. Make a small sight hole with the fingers and look
through it. Close the left and the right eye respectively and
notice the difference as to where, the point is located depending
on, which eye is looking.
• Controlling the eye movements
- if the eye movements are not completely co-ordinated, it will
lead to problems as to estimating the ball in the sight directions,
where the eyes do not strike the same point.
• Split vision
- if you have no control over the vision field, you will find it difficult
to have an overall view of the court, team players/opponents,
and the ball as well ,as positioning yourself correctly.
• Balance
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if the balance is not fully optimal, it will cause problems as to
keeping the body balanced in the ‘extreme positions’.
• Co-ordination
- if you are not co-ordinating well enough, making the body ‘obey’
instructions and moving supple will be difficult.
• The ability to aim correctly in all sight directions
- if aiming e.g. too far to the left, you will have a tendency of
shooting too far to the left and maybe feel insecure, when having
to make a shot in this direction.
• The size of the fusion reserves
- if the reserves are not fully optimal maintaining focus and
concentration throughout the entire game as well as under
pressure , it will be difficult.
• The size and the suppleness of the readjustment ability
- if the readjustment ability is not completely perfect, focus
adjustment will take too long, when changing focus from one
distance to another.
• Testing the vision as to near-sightedness/ long-sightedness/ astigmatism and
the visual power
- if the player is not seeing clearly and correctly at distance, the
ball, court, and players will become somewhat blurred.