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The truth about measuring and observing

Roger Federer does not have extraordinary natural reaction speed any better than members of the general public, which allows him to see a tennis ball quicker than anybody else. His ability to see a tennis ball which is travelling at 150mph from only a few yards in front of him is a practiced technique of pattern recognition - watching his opponent’s body, the angle of his arm, his shoulder and body position to estimate where the ball will land and finish. It takes years and years of hours and hours of practice to achieve this and it was only discovered by research on ATP tennis players carried out at Liverpool University. The researchers at Liverpool attached special iris cameras to tennis players to see where they were looking when they were receiving serves and were staggered to find out that they never looked at the ball or the head of the racket of their opponent. This is the counter intuitive truths which are revealed from proper measuring and reporting.

By Colin Campbell on 18/03/17 18:00