Quiet Eye - this one trick professional athletes use to focus when under pressure

[@FulanoJM]

I've been doing this without knowing it was a thing called quiet eye. I practice my jumpshots alot. One day during the time I wasn't that good, after missing a ton of shots, I stared at the rim for a while and just focus so much on it that the rim became super detailed. Like my vision zoomed in on it and ever since that day I've been much more accurate shooting the ball. No lie, no exaggeration. I now always look at the rim and I can willfully lock on to it. Like tunnel vision on it. Make the rim almost glow with my focus. It gets bright and detailed. I know I'm in that flow state during games when I look at the rim and I focus it effortlessly or like I am automatically locked on it soon as I look at it. Everything is money. At that point, I can feel my focus shift more over to my foot work and form execution and even other players moves. In that zone I feel and know that if i get in the air with good form its going in no matter what. AND IT DOES. I Feel way less worry about the competition cause I know I'm on. At that point the only thing that can stop me is teammates turning over or ignoring me on offense. It's best to demand the ball at that point and earn the W myself . The mind is an amazing thing.

[@willmsee4576]

Great comment.

[@NYCHeavyHitz212]

Same thing with me when I play basketball, baseball, hard difficulty retro video games, and driving games.

[@prod_zy]

Sounds like you got a gift bro 🫳🏽

[@filazkeita2272]

Good, but it seems that you are on the egocentric route and there is nothing worse than playing with a guy who thinks the world revolves around him even if he is goated. Letting the teammates shining is extremely important, and ironically they will most likely returning you the favor

[@FulanoJM]

@filazkeita2272 It's better if I have the ball because that's exactly what I do. Instead of chucking difficult shots like alot of guys. It's slow mo for me. I noticed a cut before my teamate even goes for it. The shots I take are always after probing. Ive noticed that looking for others actually breaks my defender down mentally. So if i iso him he's expecting me to pass or just tired of chasing or thinks im tired and about to miss. Lol. It's just that playing unorganized ball people want to be kobe while bricking everything. They hate passing it to me cause they feel they are relying on me. They're egocentric.. so I rather create and move the ball to guys I know will pass instead over taking bad contested shots.

[@rzl34]

hi the meditation you described is called trataka bonus points if you keep your eyes open forcefully to train impulse control

[@joanvickers3073]

I just viewed your video and would like to thank you for defining the quiet eye correctly and also acknowledging its origin. Excellent instruction throughout presented in a thoughtful and effective way. One thing I would like to recommend is that you add your name to your videos and your website so people know who you are. When I searched "Flow Lab" many people claimed the name, but you are best I have seen thus far in teaching people about the quiet eye and how quiet eye training can be used correctly, even to the point of facilitating a flow state. Thanks very much for your excellent work. Dr. Joan N. Vickers, founder of the quiet eye and quiet eye training.

[@flowlabmentalfitnessforamb981]

Wow, what an honor to get this feedback from the absolute expert! Thanks so much, means a lot to hear that from you☺🙏

[@ffgjhgt]

In hockey goalie training we often repeat: look at the puck, but an hour ago I learned about your research. This is very interesting and important for a coach. I will study your works regarding training these skills in goalkeepers of different ages and will be grateful if you give any recommendations. Incredible encounter in the comments when I was googling your name an hour ago. Thank you very much from Russia for your work and research.

[@nasu68000]

I ain’t reading allat

[@chubzdon1]

Watching slow-mo videos of tennis pros hitting a forehand you'll notice they look directly at the contact point with a fixed gaze before the ball even gets there. It seems like their eyes lock onto the ball during flight while the brain makes calculations to predict the contact point. Quiet eye kicks in and the eyes fixate on to the contact point but only a few milliseconds before contact. Any earlier and their focal point would've changed. The human body is amazing.

[@maderastuff]

Damn. How insightful. For what its worth - i started eye training with dots and physical movements about a year ago. The difference in my fps playing is drastic. Went from a really bad leeroy jenkins 0.19 k/d filled with inconsistentency to a 1.5+ kd that has me comfortably popping out 2-7 kill games consistently while still playing the Leeroy Jenkins game. Much of it comes down to when i die, i can feel myself losing visual focus in real time. Its kinda funny how you become aware of it. Anyway ill download the app. Sounds like thats what ive been working on.

[@flowlabmentalfitnessforamb981]

Wow, amazing to hear eye training works so well for you, too 💪 Keep it up 🤩

[@KillasStayFly]

Late reply but can you go into what exactly training you were doing with dots and physical movements

[@seangunslinger]

What are your exercises?

[@dimes.]

Great video 🎯

[@drabalisallat2188]

I play darts, I averaged around 45, so not totally shit, but far from optimal even in amateur competitions. I heard about quiet eye about two weeks ago and I took a step back and slowed myself down with the routine of looking at the treble 20 at least for a second before even putting a dart in my throwing hand. In this 2 weeks I jumped to a lot more 50+ and even 60 averages legs, tho my match avereges only jumped to like 48, I still sometimes lose focus and a 35 - 40 leg average bumps down the match, but the improvement is noticeable.

[@DrGetgood]

How would this apply in combat sports such as boxing, Muay Thai, or MMA?

[@inspectahmig]

I would say it could be used for general awareness of the opponent's position. For example using quiet eye to track the leg position of an opponent before a takedown. Or anticipating punches

[@nikitaanikin4190]

I suppose inhibiting the factors of distraction - shifting away attention from surfaced-level details of surroundings and its patterns, including other people in the gym/dojo/match (that could have been acknowledged during the fight subconsciously even when normally focusing on the opponent) or chants from opponent’s corners which while serve as assistance for their teammate, may interfere the focus or break the confidence of the opponent accidentally or intentionally. As mentioned above, increased reaction speed, precision, sharper reflexes and instincts (faster subconscious calculations) come in, it may also benefit the stamina or the pain threshold endurance of the fighter as all the attention and the brain’s energy is being transferred towards one specific and physically demanding task, combined with complete activation of sympathetic nervous system and total investment in process without any fluctuations between the rounds. In essence, «Quiet eye» skill have potential to benefit all the possibility of activities, augmenting its efficiency and success rate overtime.

[@DrGetgood]

@@nikitaanikin4190 I'm like 90% sure this comment was written by AI. Despite that, it's still good insight.

[@arcadesunday4592]

Very interesting subject, and well presented video.

[@flowlabmentalfitnessforamb981]

Thank so much! 🤩

[@flowbodytransformation5221]

Very interesting, great video! “Quiet eye”can be used in the gym as well, right before your challenging sets. Helps with getting in the flow 💪🏻💪🏻

[@flowlabmentalfitnessforamb981]

Thanks, this feedback from the experts mean a lot ;) And true - also a relevant strategy for individual sports. Will try it ourselves next time in the gym💪

[@andresgarcia6337]

Fascinating video. I wonder how training the quiet eye would impact the outcome of tennis players. I immediately thought of Federer, who is notorious for keeping his head steady for a longer time at contact point when hitting the ball.

[@witness445]

This is exactly why I clicked on the video! I'm a tennis player, and lose the ball at contact sometimes. Federer was the master at watching the ball far past it left his strings

[@SpokeN_]

Does this work with bowling please?

[@harshbisht6557]

TRATAKA kriya, in yoga.. Using earthen lamp ( Diya)

[@LasseWüst]

From my own experience as a Handball player you sometimes have to do the exact opposite when you are trying to score while searching for teammates that might get a better shot. In other words focusing on 2 or more things at once. What would that be called? Or is there even a name for that.

[@vuway-]

That happens a lot during Flow State you're talking about when your eyes kind of defocus a little bit where you can see everything all at once but not really focusing on one thing in particular... I think that kind of focus what happens when you have to be adaptable and you don't know what's coming next so you have to be able to see like that.... But this is for a singular action one thing to execute

[@KingDavid-o9b]

If you want to train your quiet-eye try trataka

[@RealityAllahSupremeElevation]

Does this apply to combat sports like MMA and Boxing?

[@IHACKER316]

Video starts at 1:22

[@opencurtin]

works for Tennis ?

[@flowlabmentalfitnessforamb981]

It does 😉 Professional players like Serena Williams have also used it.

[@anthonygagnon4702]

What is the title blue book on the desk?

[@fred8174]

What a skeet shooter focus on?

[@sandrahubernaef5915]

Gibt es dieses Video auch mit deutschen Untertiteln?

[@nicholascarver1]

I can't believe this is an actual study. Keep yer eye on the ball kid.

[@milanvoncina7812]

I can not find your app on Google Play

[@flowlabmentalfitnessforamb981]

Unfortunately, only the Apple version is currently available 💔

[@ralstonraz]

App and website not functional?

[@fyokota]

It seems you are describing what a musician do when reading a difficult peace of music.

[@JeremyQuinn]

actually...(lol)...Trae is 19.6% better from the free throw line when you do the math

[@R0Tl]

What do you mean? Is there a joke somewhere that I'm not getting? This video was made two years ago during the 2021-2022 NBA season. Based on the numbers given in this video, Trae was shooting 89.7% at the time, and Luka was shooting 75% from the line. Simple math tells you it's a difference of 14.7%, or roughly ~15%.

[@R0Tl]

Or are you referring to the relative percentage increase over Luka's free throw rate? Aka, 89.7/75. Because, comparing percentages can be done with both methods, but with stats like these, it's usually almost always a direct addition/subtraction comparison. If I shoot 42% from three, and another person shoots 35%, that's normally described as shooting 7% higher. This is the standard way of describing it

[@JeremyQuinn]

@@R0Tl bingo, and while both can be done in conversation, math wise I'm right

[@ninarichard2013]

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[@fep5531]

Bruh I thought this is Simon Safhalter fr

[@lowballinn]

Try dunking

[@youngstill5121]

Bro, I CANNOT HEAR SHIT

[@gokhantoksoy2826]

Soccer ? What is that, a new computer game? Shame ...

[@jonsmith20766]

Soccer is a legitimate derivation of association football. It's been used since the 1880s and is a useful, less lengthy way of differentiating association football from other versions like a Australian rules football, Grid iron football etc. I hate Amercianisms but this isn't one of them.

[@DruStevens]

This aint true i blank out everytime and dont see anything but glimpses. . Not the defender or his help and i dont stare at the rim. I stare at the chain holding the net. Its a smaller target but when you hit it its money no one can stop.