Are you looking to improve as a pickleball player? To have more confidence as balls come whizzing at you on the court? If you are reading this, I would venture the answer as “yes.”

You can do several things to improve as a pickleball player: drill different shots, study game strategy, or take a lesson. All of these are steps you can take to move you forward down the path to becoming the player you want to be. But there is one thing that you can do that will significantly improve your game and your life that you probably have not considered. If you see better you will play better pickleball.

Pickleball is a visual sport.

First, you need to see the ball, preferably as soon as possible, off your opponent’s paddle, recognize its trajectory, speed, projected depth, and rotation. Then you need to track the ball, sometimes as far as 15 yards (45 feet), from your opponent’s paddle all the way to yours. Finally, as the ball nears, you need to fine-tune where you think the ball will end up going so that you can hit it with your paddle. Even here, you want to hit the ball as close to the sweet spot on your paddle as possible.

You are doing this hundreds (maybe even thousands) of times a week. And make no mistake about it: the better you see the ball, the better you will play pickleball. Not only that, the better you will live –think about your night driving depth perception and potential danger recognition.

The good news is that your vision can be improved.

We are not talking about getting your vision to 20/20 – this is not magic. Instead, we are talking about strengthening the muscles in your eyes and quickening the connection between your eyes’ signals and your reactions to what they are seeing.

Experts designed the Vizual Edge training to test and then train various aspects of your vision: convergence, divergence, and tracking are some of the areas trained. The Vizual Edge training platform is used by many top athletes in sports where strong visual skills are critical to success, including numerous major league baseball and hockey players.

Vizual Edge is also the program that CJ and I use to keep our vision trained and ready for whatever is coming our way, on the pickleball court and in life.

You can find out more about the Vizual Edge training and find the program that best works for you here.

You also get the best rate available to pickleball players looking to add Vizual Edge training to their program. Your purchase through this link helps support our efforts to grow the sport and bring your quality content.

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