Perception
I wonder if there’s a future for this in football?
Talks about pitch vision, anticipation, field sense. Starts with Wayne Gretzky, but might as well be discussing Cesc Fabregas. Then it goes on to talk about how expert sportsmen can see something happen much quicker than amateurs - in the article they talk about a tennis serve: the pros can judge where it’s going before it’s been hit; the amateurs see it off the raquet. Similarly, it talks about how volleyball players were taught to read things by wearing goggles that made them blind just before a crucial situation. Knowing that their sight was to be taken away, the players developed better anticipatory skills. Interesting stuff.
I was visiting my brother in Phoenix, we went to see Wayne’s hockey team play. If these skills are teachable, he should start with his team….They are awful.
Bob K
13 Mar 08 at 11:54 pm