The core Visual Skills

that Separate Good From Great

From tracking to depth perception, we help you sharpen each visual skill to help you perform your best.

Note: Our tenth exercise is Alternating Flexibility, the simultaneous use of Convergence and Divergence.

alignment

Alignment is the ability of both eyes to focus on an object in space.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts whether you swing, early, late or on time at the plate, as well as your overall throwing accuracy.

  • Impacts whether you swing, early, late or on time at the plate, as well as your overall throwing accuracy.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the puck or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the ball or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the ball or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of an object, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the ball or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the ball or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the ball or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to accurately aim and hit your intended target(s).

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of the ball or a player, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target. Critical for QBs!

  • Impacts your ability to accurately line up a shot and hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of an object, as well as ability to accurately hit your intended target.

  • Impacts your ability to perceive the true location of an object, often the cause of feeling like your focus is off.

depth perception

Depth perception is your ability to accurately judge the distance, speed, and position of objects in space.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your ability to pick up spin, speed and trajectory of a pitch, especially off-speed pitches, impacting your timing.

  • Impacts your ability to pick up spin, speed and trajectory of a pitch, especially off-speed pitches, impacting your timing.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the puck or player, impacting redirects, saves and positional awareness.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting ability to pick up spin, as well as your spatial awareness on the court.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting saves and positional awareness.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting saves and positional awareness.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting your ability to operate in congested spaces.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting ability to pick up spin, as well as your spatial awareness on the court.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting your ability to operate in congested spaces. Also plays a key role in accurately judging distance to the basket.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of a target or another player. Also plays a role in judging in-game distances.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of the ball or player, impacting your ability to operate in congested spaces.

  • Impacts your ability to judge distance, slope and speed on the greens.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of a target.

  • Impacts your ability to judge the speed and trajectory of an object or target.

convergence

Convergence is your eyes’ ability to work together and focus on objects as they move closer to you.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming pitch as it approaches the final few feet, and especially high-velocity pitches.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming pitch as it approaches the final few feet, and especially high-velocity pitches.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming puck as it approaches the final few feet, whether to make a save, connect on a one-timer or control the puck.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming shot as it approaches the final few feet and make solid contact.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming ball as it approaches the final few feet, whether to make a save or control the ball.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming ball as it approaches the final few feet, whether to make a save, connect on a one-timer or control the ball.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming shot as it approaches the final few feet and make solid contact.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming shot as it approaches the final few feet and make solid contact.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on an incoming pass or find teammates in close proximity.

  • Impacts your ability to focus targets in close proximity on the screen.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on the ball or player as it approaches you.

  • Impacts your overall short game, ability to sink putt and focus levels when swinging.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on incoming targets or targets in close proximity.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on targets or objects as they approach you.

Divergence

Divergence is your eyes’ ability to locate objects at a distance or that are moving away from you.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your ability to to locate the ball out of the pitcher’s hand (early pitch & spin detection), as well as locating objects or targets from a distance

  • Impacts your ability to to locate the ball out of the pitcher’s hand (early pitch & spin detection), as well as locating objects or targets from a distance

  • Impacts your ability to locate the puck or target from a distance, impacting readiness to make a save or overall passing and shooting accuracy.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the ball off a serve or pinpoint your shot location on the opponent’s side.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the ball or target from a distance, impacting readiness to make a save or overall passing and shooting accuracy.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the ball or target from a distance, impacting readiness to make a save or overall passing and shooting accuracy.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the ball off a serve or pinpoint your shot location on the opponent’s side.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the ball off a serve or pinpoint your shot location on the opponent’s side.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the ball or target from a distance, impacting overall passing and shooting accuracy.

  • Impacts your ability to focus targets at a distance on the screen.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on a target down the field, critical for a QB, as well as maintaining focus on the ball from a distance.

  • Impacts your ability to locate the pin from a distance and your overall lag putting.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on targets at a distance and overall accuracy levels.

  • Impacts your ability to focus on targets or objects from a distance.

recognition

Recognition is your brain’s ability to quickly identify, process react to what you see—like patterns and movements. It drives faster, more accurate decisions.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and pitch recognition skills. Also plays a role in your overall baseball IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and pitch recognition skills. Also plays a role in your overall softball IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall hockey IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall pickleball IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall lacrosse IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall soccer IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall volleyball IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall tennis IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall basketball IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed, pattern recognition and decision-making skills.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed, decision-making skills and reading of coverage Also plays a role in your overall football IQ.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed and decision-making skills. Also plays a role in your overall golf IQ and ability to read greens and undulation.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed, decision-making skills and anticipation.

  • Impacts your overall visual processing speed, decision-making skills and anticipation.

tracking

Saccadic Tracking is one of two critical tracking skills and relates to your ability to quickly react and shift focus on an object or target.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track an object or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track an object or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the puck/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track an object/target or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball/player or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track the ball (and not lost it!) or quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to quickly shift focus.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to quickly shift focus.

pursuits

Smooth Pursuits Tracking is the other main form of tracking and relates to your ability to smoothly follow a moving object in real time.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as a fly ball or baserunner.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as a fly ball or baserunner.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as the puck or another player.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as the ball or another player.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as the ball or another player.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as the ball or another player.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as the ball or another player.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object or target.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object, such as the ball or another player.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving target or object.

  • Impacts your overall reaction speeds and ability to track a continuously moving object.

contrast sensitivity

Contrast sensitivity is your ability to detect subtle differences between objects and their backgrounds—especially in challenging lighting, key for helping you see clearly in less-than-ideal visual environments.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences in jerseys or the puck, as well as your ability to combat lightning environments such as flood lights, smaller or larger arenas, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences in jerseys or the ball, as well as your ability to combat lightning environments such as flood lights, smaller or larger stadiums, etc.

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  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences in jerseys or the ball, as well as your ability to combat lightning environments such as flood lights, smaller or larger arenas, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences in jerseys or the ball, as well as your ability to combat lightning environments such as flood lights, smaller or larger arenas, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish subtle color differences on the screen.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to distinguish color differences or combat lightning environments such as flood lights, bright sun, high/low skies, etc.

multi-object tracking

Multi-object tracking is your ability to monitor and process multiple moving targets at the same time. Vizual Edge also mixes in Contrast Sensitivity to further enhance your training of this skill.

HOW IT impacts you

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and a baserunner.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and a baserunner.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the puck and an opponent on an odd man rush.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple targets or objects at once.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and another player.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple objects at once, such as the ball and the pin.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple targets or objects at once.

  • Impacts your eyes ability to focus on multiple targets or objects at once.