Hi Igor,

How are things?

I liked the last bit of the article;Inexperienced
volleyball hitters tend to telegraph
> their hits,

It reminded me what Takagi sensei said at summercamp a
couple of times to people that they are telegraphing
what they are going to do before they moved.
And then reflects to the wild west in a gun battle
situation. Bob also reminds us on that from time to
time...

cool stuff.

Yours
Jaron
--- kodia1963 <safe@...> wrote:

> It appears the concept of 'sen' has entered the
> realm of sports science. Today I came
> across this highly interesting article on Wired.com:
>
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-06/ff_mindgames
> It's about how top-athletes know what's going to
> happen, before actually perceiving it.
> Supernatural?
> Hardly.
> But as we in wado already know, it's hard to learn.
>
> Igor A
>
>
> Some tidbits from the article:
>
> What separated the pros from everyone else was the
> ability to pull directional information
> out of the early stages of a swing and therefore to
> predict a split second earlier where to
> head. This fraction of time is game- changing. A
> serve going 120 miles per hour takes
> approximately a third of a second to travel the 60
> feet from baseline to service line. This
> means that an expert, who doesn't have to wait until
> contact, has twice as long to move,
> plant his feet, and swing.
>
> Reflex speed is not the key factor in returning a
> serve. "People have tested casual players
> and experts, and their reaction times are
> essentially the same," Farrow says. The fact that
> Roger Federer can drill back a 140-mile-per-hour
> serve is partly a matter of muscle
> control. But it's also about processing subtle
> visual cues to predict where the ball will go
> and get to the right spot.
>
> Vint knows that the skill he calls "perceptual
> ability" develops, in part, to help a physical
> underdog against bigger, stronger players. If you
> can anticipate a throw, you don't need to
> be as fast. If you can intercept a pass by
> predicting its trajectory better than your
> opponent can, you don't need to be as big.
>
> Inexperienced volleyball hitters tend to telegraph
> their hits, says Vint, who has puzzled
> over these issues with Farrow: "If they're doing a
> quick set in the middle, they may stiffen
> their arms. If it's a back-set, they'll arch their
> back before the ball arrives."
>
>




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