Peripheral vision
Submitted by houseofcards on Sat, 03/11/2006 - 20:03.
Opinion
Peripheral Vision is what you see on the edge of your center of vision. It's usually really bad (in humans at least) at distinguishing shape and colour, but it comes in very useful in Dodgeball.
Peripheral vision's main advantage is in detecting movement, although it's better in the dark. And let's face it, who in their right mind plays dodgeball in the dark?
To check your peripheral vision:-
1- close an eye and stretch your arms out sideways.
2- swing your arms forward slowly. making a note of where you can see your hands appear.
3- if you see your hand opposite the closed eye at 90 degrees to your nose, and the other side's hand at 30 degrees to your nose, everything is ok.
But why is it so important in Dodgeball?
You need to pay attention to what's going on all around you.
For example, you bend to get a ball- your eyes are facing away from the opposing team. You're trying to catch a rebound ball. Some sneaky player is standing in the corner, waiting to throw a ball at you. You need to be aware of these things in order to avoid getting a ball in the face.
In other words- don't focus too hard on one player or area of the court. The only other way to get past using it is darting from one area to the next, checking each out quickly, but the chances are, you'll probably miss something big heading your way.
Peripheral vision's main advantage is in detecting movement, although it's better in the dark. And let's face it, who in their right mind plays dodgeball in the dark?
To check your peripheral vision:-
1- close an eye and stretch your arms out sideways.
2- swing your arms forward slowly. making a note of where you can see your hands appear.
3- if you see your hand opposite the closed eye at 90 degrees to your nose, and the other side's hand at 30 degrees to your nose, everything is ok.
But why is it so important in Dodgeball?
You need to pay attention to what's going on all around you.
For example, you bend to get a ball- your eyes are facing away from the opposing team. You're trying to catch a rebound ball. Some sneaky player is standing in the corner, waiting to throw a ball at you. You need to be aware of these things in order to avoid getting a ball in the face.
In other words- don't focus too hard on one player or area of the court. The only other way to get past using it is darting from one area to the next, checking each out quickly, but the chances are, you'll probably miss something big heading your way.