{"id":5092,"date":"2020-02-18T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2020-05-07T10:38:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:38:06","slug":"offseason-hand-eye-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/blog-post\/offseason-hand-eye-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Offseason Hand Eye Training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In\nevery sport, there is some sort of task that an athlete must complete that\nrequires some sort of hand eye coordination. Hand eye coordination is a skill\nthat some people are better at than most, but at the same time that skill can\ndefinitely be trained to a higher level. Take a look at the “5 Major\nSports North America Sports” Football, Basketball, Hockey, Soccer and\nBaseball. All these sport require an elite level of hand-eye coordination to\neither score in that sport, or to play defence in that sport! In this blog I’m\ngoing to give you a few cool ways to train hand eye to help with your ability\nto see and react to whatever is happening on the field or court in your sport!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hand Eye coordination in athletes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Left Hand Training<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\none is pretty straight forward! Most people have one dominate hand. For me I’m\nright handed and during the early part of my career I really struggle with my\nleft hand. As a center in football I snapped with my right so I had to get\nbetter with my left hand as it was my first line of defence. So I started doing\neverything I could with my left hand; writing, opening jars and doors playing\ncatch, before I knew it I had my left hand caught up with my right. Here the\ndeal though, it has to be a constant effort. You cannot just do this for 2\nmonths and have a great “offhand” it\u2019s something that you must\ncontinually train or you will lose this skill you have gained!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One Handed Catch Training<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Again\nanother very straight forward drill, but extremely effective! Have someone\nthrow you a tennis ball and catch it will one hand. The key to making this\ndrill work best is to have the throw come at you on different angle, don\u2019t just\nhave the ball come straight at you as this isn\u2019t realistic! This drill is\nreally good for football and baseball guys. They have to make one handed catches\nall the time, so they should be constantly training that skill. One cool little\nway to make this drill harder is have the player who is catching the tennis\nball slowly jog to the person who is throwing it; this will add different\nlevels of depth perception that will help the hand eye!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reaction Ball Drill<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is by far my favourite hand eye drill that I have in my tool box! There are two reasons why! Number 1; you can do this drill by yourself and number 2 the ball makes you react and move your feet instead of just standing in one place or jogging to a spot! Here is the drill; stand about five years away from the wall and throw the ball on a one hop at the wall and react and go catch it before the ball hits the ground! Seems simple right!!! It is but the great part is no two reps will be the same! The ball will always jump somewhere different! Below is a picture of the ball that I have, it\u2019s a Nike product I used it for a long time and saw great results!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Off season is the time to get better! Come into the gym today to see how we can help you prepare for next season!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In every sport, there is some sort of task that an athlete must complete that requires some sort of hand eye coordination. Hand eye coordination is a skill that some people are better at than most, but at the same time that skill can definitely be trained to a higher level. Take a look at … Continue reading “Offseason Hand Eye Training”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[626,556,646,232,115,647],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-post","tag-athlete","tag-gym","tag-hand-eye-coordination","tag-sport-specific-training","tag-training-methods","tag-youth-fitness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5489,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions\/5489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sst.training\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}