Coming from Jeter Publishing/Simon & Schuster in March 2018!
The Playmaker's Advantage - How To Raise Your Mental Game To The Next Level
by Leonard Zaichkowsky and Daniel Peterson
Coaches search for it. Parents dream of it. Fans love it. Athletes want it.
The Playmaker on any sports team possesses it: an elusive, intangible quality combining anticipation, perception, and decision-making skills. This quality raises their game above the competition and allows them to pass when no one else can, anticipate the movement of opponents, and avoid costly mental mistakes, thus holding the team together.
Using today’s technology and tools, it is now possible to understand, assess, and train this sixth sense rather than just hope it magically appears. Now, for the first time, cognitive science research is revealing the secrets of the Playmaker’s keen sense of awareness. Just as tests of speed, strength, and agility have provided a baseline of physiological biomarkers, coaches can now capture cognitive metrics including attention, pattern recognition, anticipation, and the ability to take quick, decisive action during the chaos of competition.
"The Playmaker’s Advantage is a groundbreaking book that will educate athletes, coaches and parents about this essential creative capability in an accessible, easy to understand way."
See Better - Think Better - Play Better
Athletes: To get more playing time, you need to go beyond the standard training techniques that everyone else uses. Your eyes and your brain are the keys to unlock all of your sports performance skills. It's time to focus on the cognitive side of your game.
Parents: You've spent thousands to get your developing athlete on the right team with the right coach. Now, invest in the most important components of skill acquisition; visual perception, pattern recognition and decision-making.
Coaches: Mental mistakes, missed assignments and slow decisions are holding your team back. While you teach them the tactics of the game, they may benefit from supplemental training for their vision and cognitive skills. Think of it like strength and conditioning for the brain.
At 80 Percent Mental, we offer the latest science-based apps/systems to help athletes see better and think better so they can get more playing time and give them an edge over their competition.
See Better
Advanced Vision Assessment and Training
When playing sports, your eyes take in over 80% of the available sensory information as compared to your other four senses. Over 30% of the neurons in your brain are devoted to processing visual input.
So, it makes perfect sense to train your visual perception so that you can see patterns developing, react quicker to moving objects and give yourself that extra tenth of a second to make the right decision.
We work with leading visual perception tools to assess and train sensorimotor skills.
Think Better
Cognitive Skills Assessment and Training
