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Visual Focus -- To be a great hitter, you must see the ball, identify the pitch traits and react within a finite time frame. This requires great vision or does it?
Sport Science -- On the peripheral vision piece on a recent Sport Science...

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Visual Focus -- To be a great hitter, you must see the ball, identify the pitch traits and react within a finite time frame. This requires great vision or does it?
Sport Science -- On the peripheral vision piece on a recent Sport Science episode, they talked about what part of the eye is used for tracking movement (the outside portion) and which focuses on color and details (the inside portion). When a hitter focuses too finely, the portion of the eye that detects motion and speed is not engaged as needed. This does not allow the hitter to "drink in" the pitch information correctly to help their timing judgment. This video describes the contrast between "camera mode or still shot mode" and "video mode".

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