@TheSaltyAdmiral
Excellent. I'm 42 yo, but with this hidden knowledge I will now begin to dominate different sports.
@anthonyzobel9694
Sat down and watched this with my wife, an optometrist currently doing research in eye tracking. Had nothing but glowing praise for you and your teams thorough research and presentation. Keep up the fantastic work!
@SNEAK982
This is something you get taught very early in motor racing, they call it target fixation and is ironically a big reason in why people tend to crash into hazards they pay too much attention to. But its also used to teach basic cornering, to look far ahead and focus your eyes on the apex of a turn, it completely and perceptively alters your sense of speed and time and improves your consistency and ability to correct yourself immensely, it feels like you are moving slower. The same principle is also used in drifting, you fixate on where you want the car to go, not where its going
@rpmulvany
My cornhole game is about to be off the hook once I train my quiet eye.
@Karue-Sell
Hey Michael. First of all, this video was absolutely awesome. Incredibly insightful. I am a professional tennis player (around 300 in the world) and I always thought my eyes were a big reason of why I’ve excelled at tennis. Recognizing clues quickly in order to anticipate. I also always had a theory that elite players have even better eyes and this video hit the nail in the head. Federer really exaggerated for how long he watched the ball after his strokes for example. I think the better the eyes, the slower the game becomes so you are able to make higher quality decisions for longer. In tennis “keeping the eye on the ball” is such a common instruction but it is absolutely key. During matches, when things are tense I always go back to that: keep the eye on the ball for a little longer and it always helps. I plan on reaching out to some of the doctors you showed in the video for training once this season is over. Any edge I can get is invaluable. Really appreciate your work, you earned a subscriber. This is what YouTube is about. Keep it up
@Flyerman777
This video came out 8min ago. While it’s a regular Thursday afternoon. I deadass just walked out of work and told my boss I had a call to take.. and meanwhile I’m just watching another Michael mackelvie video
@MindfulAttraction2.0
as a painter, when i started using and studying color, i can distantly remember feeling like i was tripping cus i was seeing so many more variation of colors. I was able to see more subtlety. This made seeing colors more intense
@peterranney9488
I can't speak on the pysiology of "quiet eye" in an athlete, but as a tennis coach I can tell you that the surest signs that a player was rattled would be when I would call them over on a changeover and their eyes would be darting around all over the place. Sometimes it could be caused by being physically over matched or sometimes it could be caused by still being fixated on a prior mental mistake, but I just thought it would be worth saying that anecdotally I have seen this in real life without even knowing what to call it.
@sleaplezs
As a person who plays multiple sports and video games this now makes so much sense. The times i felt best doing those activities, is when i was hard focused and felt like everything was on point, specifically my vision. Its like i can remember those moments perfectly staring at the ball going up for a layup. Or tracking someone in a video game perfectly.
@benkornoff4294
I guess that’s why pops always said to “keep your eye on the ball”
@malte5493
Great video! I've been playing basketball for 15 years now, I would say I'm a pretty good shooter. Sometimes in game when I shot a three, I immediately know it's going in, even before I begin my shooting motion. And the craziest thing is I really go into tunnel vision, almost blurring out everything except the back of the rim. I didn't really recognize this feeling, until I saw this video and it made so much sense. It's not only the motion and muscle memory that matters, it's the 'stillness in your vision'. I just wanted to share that revelation, because I always wondered about this feeling of knowing the ball is going in, before even shooting it.
@rashedulkabir6227
The most proficient athletes are adept at interpreting a set of cues that let them predict future events. According to a Wired article, what set professional tennis players apart from the rest was their capacity to recognise direction from a swing's early phases and, as a result, anticipate where to hit the ball a fraction of a second sooner. This implies that an expert has twice as much time to move, place his feet, and swing as someone who must wait for contact.
@bogusphone8000
Elite athletes have a visual advantage. I remember early on, we were analyzing a basketball play, and the level of detail, even about the rotation of the ball was much higher in the better players. But the "what makes them better" question has two answers: 1) Minimized deltas - the better athletes have far less variance in their executions. Some naturally and some through training. 2) Applied intelligence - the ability to perceive, analyze, and decide in the most effective way. The better players can consume the entire environment, quickly identify pros and cons, prioritize, and decide. As you reference JJ, his podcast often attempts to expose some of item 2 above, highlighting the symphony being managed in the athletes head.
@Tzoman11
Im currently doing my PhD themed exactly around this topic, eye tracking combined with brain activity scaling from closed activities to open activities (3pt shooting on the move) and hopefully decision making (reading stimuli and performing appropriate actions). The first year has been... uninspiring (natural disaster hit the area and the lab) but hopefully progress will be made towards explaining quiet-eye and possibly enhancing it (or it's effects). This video was a much needed kick in the butt to get back at it! Amazing and well informed content as always!
@Couriway
I absolutely love your videos, and as someone who plays a video game at a high level professionally, i think a lot of what you said towards the end about concentration and the overarching system of your brain and eyes translates incredibly well. Keep up the great work!
@mjsochill12
Most underrated channel on YouTube
@mariolongtin8271
This is why athletes train hand eye coordination! Genetics and developing fast twitch muscle fibers also play a factor. Great video! I'm glad YouTube algorithms recommended me this one!
@thelawyer95
What I love the most about this channel is, that the content is something I never thought about, but yet after watching it, I research on it myself cause I find it interesting. Basically stuff I didn't even know myself I'm interested in.
@renobgm
Chess Expert (USCF) here, what you are describing is exactly what we use to play blindfolded. We appropriate the necessities of the eye for our given spoet to the other 3 lobes of the brain, it's a lot like going Lucy when you think about it and this is every sport, boardgame, enthusiasm; it's great we're taking these studies seriously because ordinary people can learn to become closer to Elite of today
@TheEloka123