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 What does it mean to have "good hands"?

Hands are simply an instrument that we use to do the things that we do in sport. When a sportsperson makes a spectacular catch with one hand, it is his visual system that knew exactly when the ball would be where the ball was going to go so that he could use that hand to stop his flight and secure it to his body to make the catch and score the touchdown. 

What does it mean, "a game of inches"?

If you could mentally picture in most sports like in baseball field, the difference between when a ball is hit by a bat and the trajectory the tiniest little difference between when the ball hits it and the amount of spin it induces how far it goes that tiniest little bit of difference is a routine fly ball that's an out versus a home run versus a frozen rope or a line drive that hits the ground and keeps the game going in a positive way for the offense. 

How are athletes using guided imagery to improve their performance?

Keeping space and having that kind of perception for a perfect start to know exactly how to begin just at the right moment. So that kind of imagery and presence of mind both mentally and physically and getting to the aim more quickly. Absolutely critical in the way things go in these ways an athlete is guided to be better.


As DR Bruce said, "most visual problems are problems of omission, not commission." 

This simply means if somebody's out there in the heat of the moment in a sport, something was there that could have been seen but it wasn't, so the past was made and intercepted and it's usually because it was a visual problem that was going on. The goal is to help the player learn to take in more information simultaneously to process it more quickly and to make better decisions. They will make better decisions based on having more information and processing it faster    

  

          

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