Writtle Sports Students get focused on Super Human Vision
Gavin Rebello, Chairman of Sports Vision UK, visited the College on Monday 16 as a guest speaker for the Undergraduate BSc Sport and Exercise Performance students. Sport Vision UK is focused on promoting the importance of sport vision and sport performance in the UK.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Gavin Rebello, Chairman of Sports Vision UK, visited the College on Monday 16 as a guest speaker for the Undergraduate BSc Sport and Exercise Performance students. Sport Vision UK is focused on promoting the importance of sport vision and sport performance in the UK.
In his talk Gavin emphasised the 12 components of optimal vision and highlighted the need of elite performers to obtain maximal visual efficiency. Each sport may have different visual skill requirements, for example an archer needs knowledge of eye dominance whereas the footballer requires excellent depth perception. One aim of Sports Vision is to enable athletes' to integrate the components into their sports performance.
Most people judge their vision by how clearly they can see. However, vision is much more complex; there are many processes contributing to vision, clarity of sight being just one.
Vision involves many subtle and sophisticated links between the brain, muscles and the eyes; the way the eyes work and how this information is processed and fed back to the body will have an effect on; Balance, Timing and Anticipation, Reaction times and Aiming Accuracy, Hand-Eye-Foot co-ordination, Maintenance of high levels of concentration. Inefficient Visual Systems will be affected by; Dehydration, Stress, Tiredness.
Sport Vision UK is already working with big sporting names such as Sarah Claxton ( Olympic hurdler ) and the Cambridge University Boat crew. When discussing Sport Vision Gavin said:
“elite athletes understand the need to train and keep the body in peak fitness. With vision being the dominant sense in most sport, we must maximise all aspects of vision to maximise sporting performance.”
Mark Walker, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Performance at Writtle, who organised the session said: “Research into the visual skill of the sport's performer is still in its infancy, but through collaboration with Gavin and Sports Vision the Sports & Exercise Performance students are looking to expand the knowledge base area. ”
Gavin was made Chairman of the Sport Vision UK organisation in 2006. He is a qualified optometrist from Cardiff University and is currently a partner at Essex based independent Optometrists Patrick and Menzies, here Gavin specialises in the visual aspects of children with reading difficulties.
After completing a higher certificate in paediatric optometry and binocular vision from City University, Gavin realised that visual-sporting performance was simply a functionality of binocular vision and this led him to obtain the Diploma in Sports Vision in 2005, Gavin was awarded 1st prize nationally for his dissertation.
To find out more about Sport Vision UK please visit www.sports-vision.co.uk and if you are interested in finding out more about the Sport and Exercise Performance course or any other sport programmes available at Writtle College please email sport@writtle.ac.uk.
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