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It's no surprise to many when I write that over the last 15 years I have been coaching I have seen a decline in some of the most basic skills in my novice athletes. Coordination, balance, hand eyes coordination and gross motor skills have fallen to the wayside.
We can most likely blame it on a decrease in recess time and activity availability, removal of true physical education from our schools and the increased prevalence of electronics in the home. While the youth of these upcoming generations are becoming far more advanced in electronics and computers than most adults by the age of 10, there is a tradeoff.
We find that many youth, have no throwing mechanics, can hardly jump or move and are utterly afraid of catching a ball. This is due to a couple things: lack of hand eye coordination, proprioception, and basic movement.
While it is easy to sometimes write off these things because your child isn't interested in sports, development of the eyes and learning depth perception and hand eye coordination is critical to your child's education and their ability to read and write. The eyes are linked to proprioception, vestibular, visual processing and sensory-motor abilities.
Even as far back as 1972, researchers were evaluating the links between the eyes and proprioception and the ability for a child to read. Jean Ayres, PhD, in her book Sensory Integrative Dysfunction states, “Integration of vestibular and proprioceptive inputs gives the child control over his eye movements. Without the guidance of these sensations, it is difficult for the child to focus on an object or follow it as it moves. Later on it may be difficult to move the eyes along a line of print. Reading may be so exhausting that it simply isn’t worth the effort.”
When the skill required for a given task is non-existent, an individual may become discouraged and may attempt to avoid an activity. The child that may not enjoy sports may just not feel confident in their abilities to perform on the field of play. Fear that exists when a moving object is coming toward them at a high rate of speed is more often than not a fear derived because that child is unable to track the ball and judge the speed and distance. This may lead to a child being unable to move toward the ball or away from the ball, leading to a frustrating or even painful experience.
As coaches and parents, you may find it easier to just avoid a task that a child is uncomfortable with leading to a missed opportunity to really train the visual systems required for life activities.
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Related Article.
It's no surprise to many when I write that over the last 15 years I have been coaching I have seen a decline in some of the most basic skills in my novice athletes. Coordination, balance, hand eyes coordination and gross motor skills have fallen to the wayside.
We can most likely blame it on a decrease in recess time and activity availability, removal of true physical education from our schools and the increased prevalence of electronics in the home. While the youth of these upcoming generations are becoming far more advanced in electronics and computers than most adults by the age of 10, there is a tradeoff.
We find that many youth, have no throwing mechanics, can hardly jump or move and are utterly afraid of catching a ball. This is due to a couple things: lack of hand eye coordination, proprioception, and basic movement.
While it is easy to sometimes write off these things because your child isn't interested in sports, development of the eyes and learning depth perception and hand eye coordination is critical to your child's education and their ability to read and write. The eyes are linked to proprioception, vestibular, visual processing and sensory-motor abilities.
Even as far back as 1972, researchers were evaluating the links between the eyes and proprioception and the ability for a child to read. Jean Ayres, PhD, in her book Sensory Integrative Dysfunction states, “Integration of vestibular and proprioceptive inputs gives the child control over his eye movements. Without the guidance of these sensations, it is difficult for the child to focus on an object or follow it as it moves. Later on it may be difficult to move the eyes along a line of print. Reading may be so exhausting that it simply isn’t worth the effort.”
When the skill required for a given task is non-existent, an individual may become discouraged and may attempt to avoid an activity. The child that may not enjoy sports may just not feel confident in their abilities to perform on the field of play. Fear that exists when a moving object is coming toward them at a high rate of speed is more often than not a fear derived because that child is unable to track the ball and judge the speed and distance. This may lead to a child being unable to move toward the ball or away from the ball, leading to a frustrating or even painful experience.
As coaches and parents, you may find it easier to just avoid a task that a child is uncomfortable with leading to a missed opportunity to really train the visual systems required for life activities.