Eye hand coordination and vision drills

[Go Cardinals]

I've herd people talking about eye hand coordination and visiona drills/ exercises, but I don't know any. I was wondering if anyone knew any, or had any links to post about drills/ exercises I can do (With out buying any products).

[kylebee]

There isn't any correlation between success in good vision / hand-eye coordination drills or tests and the ability to hit a baseball well.

Amateur players have outscored the best hitters in the game by wide margins on these tests, so it's likely (though not conclusive) that these drills don't help.

[virg]

There isn't any correlation between success in good vision / hand-eye coordination drills or tests and the ability to hit a baseball well.

Amateur players have outscored the best hitters in the game by wide margins on these tests, so it's likely (though not conclusive) that these drills don't help.

Good. It's about time we deal with that.

[Maxx]

If there isn't a correlation between hand-eye coordination and hitting, is there a correlation between reaction times and hitting???......

[cong]

There isn't any correlation between success in good vision / hand-eye coordination drills or tests and the ability to hit a baseball well.

Amateur players have outscored the best hitters in the game by wide margins on these tests, so it's likely (though not conclusive) that these drills don't help.

Very interesting... Could you please provide a lnk to this information?

[calgofo]

Intensive baseball practice improves the Go/Nogo reaction time, but not the simple reaction time.Kida N, Oda S, Matsumura M.
Laboratory of Human Motor Control, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.

Baseball hitters are required to make decisions whether to swing or not as quickly as possible. Therefore, we can assume that skilled baseball players have a quicker response. To verify this hypothesis, we assessed the effect of baseball experience or skill levels on simple reaction times and Go/Nogo reaction times in 82 university students (22 baseball players, 22 tennis players, and 38 nonathletes) and 17 professional baseball players. Also, to clarify whether this ability was innate or acquired, we examined the effects of long-term practice for baseball hitting in 94 senior high school students (26 baseball players and 68 non-baseball players). There were no differences in simple reaction time either for sports experience or for skill levels. On the contrary, the Go/Nogo reaction time for baseball players was significantly shorter than that of the tennis players and nonathletes. The Go/Nogo reaction time of higher-skill baseball players was significantly shorter than that of lower-skill players, while that of the professional baseball players was the shortest. The professional players showed the highest (almost linear) correlation between the Go/Nogo reaction time and simple reaction time. A longitudinal study showed that 2 years of hitting practice improved the Go/Nogo reaction time, while the simple reaction time remained constant. A cross-sectional study of high school non-baseball players showed no differences either in the simple or Go/Nogo reaction times in relation to school year. In conclusion, intensive practice, including Go or Nogo decision making, improved the Go/Nogo reaction time, but not the simple reaction time.

PMID: 15653298 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


Major review: ocular sighting dominance: a review and a study of athletic proficiency and eye-hand dominance in a collegiate baseball team.Portal JM, Romano PE.
Ophthalmology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

PURPOSE: Review: Laterality preference in sensory and motor functions of symmetrically disposed organisms have been studied for centuries. The relation between handedness and the eyes and vision (ocular sighting dominance) has been a focal point despite their physiologic dissimilarity. Study: To examine a college varsity baseball team for handedness and ocular sighting dominance to determine if their patterns of eye-hand dominance differed from the normal population and/or contributed to their individual relative success compared to their peers. Specifically: whether crossed eye- hand dominance favors the batter and uncrossed eye-hand dominance favors the pitcher. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Twenty five UF varsity players were examined. All were male. Their visual acuity, stereoscopic vision, ocular motility and ocular sighting dominance were determined, the last by a pointing test which allowed the diagnosis of a central form of ocular dominance, but was not per se affected by handedness. Handedness was determined by preferred arm for throwing or hitting. No subject was ambidextrous. A control population was established consisting of the first 100 consecutive adults seen by the first author in the UF Eye Center with 20/20 vision O.U. and a normal eye exam. RESULTS: The control group displayed eye-hand dominance patterns similar to those previously reported in the literature for the general population. In the experimental group of baseball players, the incidence of conventionally predominant (in normals) ipsilateral or uncrossed eye-hand dominance was much lower (39%) than the normal control population (65%). The incidence of contralateral or crossed eye- hand dominance was 35%, twice that of the normal control population (18%) (p<0.01). The incidence of central ocular dominance with right or left handedness was 26% or 50% higher than a normal control population (17%) (p<0.25). With regard to individual performance, those players with central ocular dominance, whether right or left handed, were the most successful players in both pitching and batting. Pitchers who were uncrossed eye-hand dominant were distinctly more successful than crossed. Batters who were crossed eye-hand dominant were slightly more successful than uncrossed. CONCLUSIONS: The pattern of eye-hand dominance appears related to athletic proficiency for baseball. Warning: Note well: This information may be useful in career guidance but does not justify or medically indicate attempts to alter ocular sighting dominance or eye-hand dominance patterns as these are determined probably genetically or at such an early age that they cannot be successfully altered later. Attempts to so alter them are historically fraught with irremediable psychological or physical injury to the subject, including permanent incapacitating double vision.

PMID: 9852435 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

[deaconspoint]

Cut a broomstick to the length of your bat and hit golf sized wiffle balls. Play ping pong.

But since hand eye coordination doesn't matter I wouldn't worry too much about it.:crazy

[Maxx]

Calgofo--are there definitions for simple reaction time and go/nogo reaction time? Thanks.....

[calgofo]

Simple reaction time is the time it takes to react to stimuli. The average human's reaction time falls somewhere between 200 and 270 milliseconds, although athletes and others who train themselves can achieve reaction times approaching 150 milliseconds[2].
Complex reaction time is the latency between a variable stimulus and a respectively variable response. Some examples of common reaction time tasks are:
Go/NoGo (also called Recognition) reaction time tasks, in which participants respond to one particular event but are instructed to ignore other events
Choice reaction time tasks, in which participants respond differentially to two stimuli by pressing one key for event A and a separate key for event B

[Maxx]

Thanks....

[Go Cardinals]

Wow, good answers..... I guess I'll just play ALOT of ping-pong .....:laugh