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Neuroscience & Hitting

Neuroscience & Hitting Robert Riggins Key Points      ·         Monocular occlusion training optimizes gaze performance of novices in complex skills      ·        Monocular occlusion training improves kinetic visual acuity & binocular fusion      ·        Having access to speed & time of a moving object improves object location predictions      ·        Visual working memory can contaminate visual perception      ·        Visual perception is 80% memory based      ·        Improving visual working memory would improve visual perception      ·        Hitters’ prototypes need to constantly be update...

Know Your Identity

 (Testimony read to congregation at First Baptist Church in Lovington, NM in July of 2018) Answering God’s Call              I wanted to share the process of how I got to this point and how my identity had to change in order to hear the call God had for me and my family.  To be called I had to go through a process and its been the hardest thing me and my wife have ever faced.  There were a lot of sleepless nights.  So many failures and a lot of times I asked why?  “Why do I have to go through this?  Why me?”  But, that’s the commitment we all made.  Making the commitment to follow Jesus was the easy part.  The hard part is when life demands that you honor or faulter on your commitment.  Following is supposed to be hard.  Luke 9:23 says “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must deny yourself, take up your cro...

The Use of Proprioceptive Training for Skill Acquisition

The Use of Proprioceptive Training for Skill Acquisition In this literature review an explanation of proprioception and proprioceptive training will be presented.    Various skill acquisition theories will be examined and the correlation of the proprioceptive system to the visuomotor systems will be analyzed.    Current research into the use of proprioception for skill acquisition/motor learning will be discussed.    Finally, an examination of what other areas could be explored to strengthen the understanding of how the brain uses proprioception to improve motor patterns will be presented. Proprioception              The body uses sensory sensitivity signals to dynamically transmit information to the central nervous system.   The perception of stimulus to the body is received by numerous proprioceptors that are in place throughout the body.   Proprioceptors are located inside muscles, joints, tendons, liga...