Experts say that over 80 percent of your perceptual input comes from vision. Your eyes significantly influence your athletic performance, affecting everything from shooting accuracy to court movement and predicting scenarios before they occur. Simply put, your court vision impacts every facet of your game. This is why at MY Athletics, it’s more than just physical training.

Why Does Sports Vision Matter?

While most athletes focus on training their bodies to move faster and stronger, a newer edge in research emphasizes improving sports vision. There’s certain techniques that we do at MY Athletics that can help your vision. Can you see faster, react more quickly, and enhance your perception and awareness?

How Do Your Eyes Influence Performance?

1. Clarity of Sight: The ability to lock onto a target enhances movement accuracy. This laser focus can be a game-changer.
2. Motor Performance: Balance, skill execution, and presence on the court are closely tied to visual sight. Activities that improve eye-hand coordination and dynamic movement corrections are crucial for peak basketball performance.
3. Speed of Visual Processing: Seeing the entire court allows you to translate visual input to your advantage. Similar to how a chess master anticipates moves, an experienced player uses their vision to execute tasks and strategize effectively.
4. Visual Memory and Anticipation Timing: The ability to take mental snapshots and anticipate where and when to place the ball is essential.
5. Dominant Eye Advantage: Research reveals that athletes with a dominant eye have a significant edge in accuracy, particularly in sports like basketball.
   

Shooting Vision
For accurate shooters, your eyes are the most variable aspect of your shooting technique. Pay attention to what’s happening. Missing by a small margin is often due to a slight eye movement or lack of laser focus, causing small variations in accuracy. Lock in with your dominant eye on the smallest target. Many great shooters focus on the closest rings of the rim and imagine placing the ball just behind these rings.

Basketball Inner Eye
Basketball demands vision and patience to excel. Becoming a standout player takes time and significant effort. This journey requires inner vision. Developing basketball talent involves tremendous dedication, and seeing the results of your hard work can take a considerable amount of time. This can be discouraging for those seeking immediate outcomes. However, similar to improving your vertical jump, progress in basketball is a gradual process. Most training results become noticeable after a year or more of sustained effort.