Vision Exercise Equipment
Check out See to Play’s dedicated vision exercise store to purchase products that help in eye training, from strobe eyeglasses to accommodative flippers.
Vision Exercise Store
In our book, See To Play: The Eyes of Elite Athletes, we dedicated two chapters on vision exercises which can improve athletic performance. We also offered variations on these exercises.
Most of these exercises can be performed easily with items found around the home. Some of these exercises can be enhanced with items which we mentioned would be available to purchase on this website.
Since the time of our publication in 2012, there have been several changes in where these items are available. The purpose of this page is to direct you to places where you can learn more about these items and purchase them.
See To Play Gaze Stabilization Exercise (Eye Baller)
This sports vision exercise trains athletes to keep eyes up for “heads up” for distinct gaze control while performing eye, hand, body and mind activities. It improves stabilization of gaze while the body is performing athletic maneuvers, core body stabilization and trains decision making with separate right brain and left brain activities while filtering out visual noise. This exercise is also used in vision concussion rehabilitation as a clinical and home exercise.
Strobe Eye Glasses
In our book, we talk about the use of the Nike Sparq Strobe Glasses during certain vision exercises. Nike no longer makes these glasses.
Senaptic is the company that has stepped in and makes this technology available.
Brock String Devices
Brock strings are one of the most common tools used in vision exercises. One 10 foot string consists of three adjustable beads that help athletes improve converging (bringing the eyes in) and diverging (moving the eyes out).
Red/Green Glasses Vision exercises
See to Play mentions using Red/Green eye glasses and charts to help improve vision functioning. These exercises are now more easily performed on the computer with Red/blue eye glasses through such programs like Visual Edge. You can go to the visual edge website to learn more about these types of exercises.
Accommodative flippers
Accommodation is the eyes ability to focus up close. Focusing up close quickly (such as in the act of focusing on the seams of a baseball as it is flying towards you) is a great visual trait for elite athletes. Flippers are used to strengthen this system. Think of these as barbells for the eyes.
Vision DIsc TO test detailed vision zone and extreme Vision Zone
See to Play details how athletes not only have better acuity, but that they have larger zones of this great vision. The Vision Disc is the tool we use to measure this important trait in elite athletes.
Fit Light Trainer to improve eye/hand/body coordination
See to Play discusses several exercises aimed at improving athletes reaction time. The eye/hand/body system we use the most in our office is the Fit Light trainer. This system can be customized into training many facets of visual input and the ultimate body reaction.