Vision Training: What You See Is What You Get

Sports vision training programs may look like (extremely unimaginative) videogames, but their purpose is somewhat higher than the destruction of creatures from another planet. They are intended to improve our ability to hit balls, catch balls, analyze fast moving terrain, and basically win lots of games that we might lose if we hadn’t spend a half hour three times a week wearing three-D glasses and sitting  in front of computer. The New York Times new and occasional sports magazine, Play reports that vision training has exploded in popularity, winning converts in almost every
professional league, from the National Basketball Association to the
PGA Tour, and that a growing
number of sports vision clinics offer amateurs the chance to improve
their games by sharpening their vision. The piece quotes Dr. Paul Berman, an optometrist in Hackensack, N.J., and the former
president of the American Optometric Association’s Sports Vision
Section, saying that an average person can focus on three separate places in a
second, but with training can look at five. "That," says Berman, "can make the
difference between being good at your sport and being elite."
The Play magazine piece includes helpful links and four exercises that my improve your sports vision.