On-line Visual
Agility Training!
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Foreword from creator The Importance of Mental
Agility |
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Many sports require not only good physical
skills, but a strong mental agility as well. Especially in
hockey where hundredths of a second or
tenths of an inch separate the winner from his opponent.
The extra edge in time or space can be
extremely crucial.
For most hockey players of all ages and
levels the physical training is 90% and mental development
around 10%. Only numerous hockey
players are turning towards mental agility to take their game to
the next level. All of the studies in
sport science and in my own research show that mental agility
successfully improve physical
skills, not matter if you professional
or a recreational player.
The benefits of mental agility training
have proved on any level in many sports.
In
hockey I found that the children who do on-line visual training had significant
improvement in
the
accuracy and quickness of their physical skills compared with children who
ignore on-line visual training.
I recommend incorporated on-line mental
development at along physical practices with team.
My on-line programs not only can
improve physical performance but it also seems to enhance motivation,
mental toughness and confidents, all
which will help elevate your level of play.
I am sure that on-line visual training
will substantially improve player ability to quickly read and react to
live game action.
For the past 3 years over 200 online
hockey students from Canada, Sweden, USA and Czech Republic
tried my online visual training “Track the Puck”, “Dynamic Vision”, “Wide
Angle Vision”,
“Hockey Sniper” and improve their
reactions and reflexes.
Online visual training helps my hockey
students to see the game with more speed and comprehension.
After 33 years from 1972 world hockey series, NHL now
opens a new era in professional hockey and welcomes all “small” players like
whiz kid Sidney Crosby to bring excitement to the game.
Now, we finally understand that just “big body with a slow mind” does not play such an important role in today’s hockey.
However, perhaps most surprisingly, it turns out that the majority of exciting
players to watch for, are actually below six feet tall with sharp vision and
clever game thinking skills. The NHL knows that today’s game with passionless
performance will quickly shrink the fan base.
Being a coach
in gymnastic, figure skating in former Soviet Union and more then past 30 years
working with hockey players in North America, I see a different level of competitiveness
in children who play hockey and children who perform to win
individual sport title. In the first group I see more immature and recreational
players who are inclined to physical
power and ignoring mental development. In this group I see less “winners-losers
with a competitive passion” and more “happy” participants without passion to
win. The second group shows more competitiveness, aggressiveness, ambitiousness
and physical and mental approaches are taken equally.
I strongly believe that if you’re a young
hockey player and seeking to achieve winning maturity, you must be strong “all
around from neck down to neck up”. Before trying to win you have to learn to
survive not only physically, but also mentally.
My believes are based on Newton’s 3rd law of motion which
states that any reaction always equal an opposite action. Moreover, players,
besides competing against other humans, compete against nature such as ice, balance, time and space. How can this relate to hockey?
In hockey two team’s forces striving against each other for the purpose of
dominance to score the most goals. In order to win in a hockey game, you need
to “see
ahead and think ahead where you have to be” and also “react with
body power and accuracy” in fractions of 45 seconds shift.
First two abilities belong to
the mental control. If you ignore mind development, you will be playing game,
like pawn playing chess with limited quantity of skills.
Wayne Gretzky, in my opinion, is still the greatest records holder in the
modern hockey. The secret of the Great One’s “Miracle On Ice” is that he is
always ahead of others in competitiveness “below and above the neck”.
In late 70’s I started seeking for more
effective skating and stick - puck technique and developed hockey agility
skills from “neck down” with exciting skating turns, edge’s
control and accurate stick-puck coordination. In late 90’s I started to
research for more effective on ice game thinking skills to win the game and
develop mind agility skills from “neck up”. In 2003 I developed on-line home training
games, like “Track the Puck”, “Dynamic Vision”, “Wide Angle
Vision” and “Hockey Sniper” in order to improve visual and mental
pathways for reducing thinking time and slow down the game. My
on-line program is the real key factor to experience your full mental potential
for successful athletic maturity.
Points to Remember
- There are 6 muscles on each eye with
different visual functions.
All the 12 eye muscles in both eyes and the speed of the mind processing can be successfully improved by Dr. Smushkin's online exercises. - Physiologically, a study (Martens, 1977)
shows that there is a loss of the fine motor skills in high combat stress
situations, loss of depth perception, near vision and peripheral eye
field.
Dr. Smushkin's online Eye - Mind exercises specifically address such problems and teach how to improve the Visual/Mental concentration on moving objects in a short period of time. - The eye and mind should be constantly
observing, detecting, assessing the game situations and see the weaknesses
of the opponents. Only then you can explore this given chances and take
full advantage of the opponent's mistakes, leaving them virtually defenseless.
- Dr. Smushkin's online Visual - Mental
Development (VMD) will allow to slow down the speed of the game and reduce
the shift's stress, which helps you to stay calm and relaxed in survival
pressure environment.
- Dr. Smushkin's online VMD encourages hockey
players and other sport athlets to utilize VMD in combination with regular
physical development.
- Online Visual Mental Development
effectively controls emotional and mental stress by slowing down the heart
rate and blood pressure, helping stay calm and avoid loosing hand-eye
coordination, timing and tracking.
Once this is mastered at home and eye - mind - body becomes relaxed in "combat with computer", you then have more or better options to win a battle in a real game survival environment.
Dr.Yasha Smushkin
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