Bags, speedballs etc

[Yuzo]

make sure that when you hit it, as it is instructed to jugglers, try to look at your target with your peripheral vision, not directly at it. when you look directly at what you are trying to hit, you wouldnt be conscious of this, but you give yourself tunnel vision. you arent conscious of it, but as you read each letter in each word in this post, you are using a part of your eye that only sees through one small focal point called the fovea. this also happens in boxing. when you lock your foveal vision directly onto a target in front of you, you are more easily blindsided by punches that come around it. on the other hand, your peripheral vision actually is specialized to detect motion very well. which is why it is best to not lock on to any one thing visually, ie hands, eyes or feet, or in this case your speed ball, but to just look at a general area and try to see everything else around it peripherally. a good spot for this is the chest. in a similar way, jugglers are instructed to look at a spot just above what they are juggling and then to see the actual objects they are juggling only peripherally.

i think can give something of an example. ray leonard fought with his eyes wide open, but with a sort of spaced out look on his face.



it is because he is not looking at his target directly. he is looking at it peripherally.

[Master]

Leonard had great concentration and focus. Never left his eyes off his opponent.