S75 PT#1: Orr What?
Due: Monday, February 19th @ 11:59pm PST
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Prompt 2
If someone is asking Willow for hand eye coordination, she is going to offer up her patented system – playing a metric ton of Counter Strike. People usually clown on her for her techniques, but there’s actual scientific evidence behind it. Video games can help you develop hand eye coordination because of how rapidly they move and how precise your movements need to be, and Counter Strike is one of the most demanding games in terms of that precision. After her practices with San Francisco, Willow goes home and plays Counter Strike for four to five hours depending on how she is doing that day. The hours pay off, when the puck is flying towards you at 100 miles an hour, you only have microseconds to react before its past you, just like how in game you have microseconds to click on the opponent character before they do it to you, it’s the perfect translation. Or that’s how Willow justifies her extreme habits of playing video games nonstop on days when they don’t have games. | PTS: 7 | BLK: 45 | +/-: 6 | PTS: 4 | BLK: 10 | +/-: 0
leafsftw1967
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Option 2 Written Task: Developing hand-eye coordination is crucial for success in ice hockey. It's a skill that encompasses not just the ability to track the puck visually but also to react swiftly and accurately with your hands and body. To enhance hand-eye coordination for SHL players I would suggest practice stickhandling drills as they are essential for improving hand-eye coordination. These drills involve controlling the puck with your stick while keeping your head up and eyes focused on the movement of the puck. Start with basic stickhandling exercises and gradually increase the complexity as you become more proficient. Incorporate drills that simulate game situations, such as weaving through cones or maneuvering around obstacles, to enhance your ability to react quickly to changing conditions. In addition it is important to utilize reaction drills as they are designed to improve your ability to anticipate and react to sudden movements. Incorporate drills that require you to quickly respond to visual cues, such as the direction of a pass or the movement of an opposing player. Reaction drills can include activities like rapid-fire passing drills, where you have to receive and pass the puck as quickly as possible, or reaction ball drills, where you react to the unpredictable bounce of a ball.
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WildfireMicro
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Option 2:
A few teammates went up to Sir Devoir asking them how best to train hand eye coordination, and he had a few words of advice for them. First of all, he said one of the best ways to train hand eye coordination was to play video games that require quick reaction time. That way, you can train your hands to react quickly to what your eyes can see, therefore training your hand eye coordination. Another way he says to train your hand eye coordination was actually to play goalie for a while, as you have to react quickly to pucks coming your way. Was this just a secret way for Devoir to let out some stress by shooting pucks towards the net for once? Probably, but he did get to shoot pucks as the teammates took turns being in the net as Devoir shot the puck towards them. If nothing else, it did give them a lot more appreciation for Devoir's job considering how many pucks went past them into the net. Code: 172 words
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spidey
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Option 2:
A lot of people will tell you to practice with tennis balls, throwing them up into the air and catching them, or having someone throw the ball from behind you against a wall and catch them before they get by you. Interesting thought, but wrong. Some people believe video games can help work on your hand eye coordination, another great idea, but that is better for fingers and less the whole hand. If I were to suggest like anything else you want to succeed in life it should be with a goal in mind. My typical goal is to live, so I would suggest something simple like free climbing a 1000 foot cliff. Think about it, you will be so focused on where your hand goes, what is coming up and how to best move your hands (and feet for bonus coordination training). Because if you don’t and you fail, typically, it is a very, very long way down. Screw conventional, go with real life consequences for best effect. Sig by Lazyeye
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Jakesdy
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Well you can bounce a ball against a wall for a while, take up juggling, play darts, paint or draw a picture, go for a swim. Also you may try to toss a balloon (very intertaining for me personally) or jump rope. One of my favourites, play video games (no joke, video games require both motor skills and visual perception to execute gameplay). Doing dribbling drills and building building toy (for example Lego) is helpful too. A variety of puck dribbling exercises can be also be included in your program. Boxing and many forms of martial arts are also great to help improve eye-hand coordination. In your free time, you can play baseball, golf or tennis, they will also help. You can solve spatial thinking problems or solve the same Rubik's cube. You can also practice various and interesting eye exercises. These were my options as a hand-eye coordination bracket.
wizard_literal
Registered Senior Member Code: Option 2: The only way to train hand eye coordination is to chase something that is uncatchable! No I'm not talking about some ghost busters action or chasing phantoms in the night. No as a Cat Gato was raised chasing laser points and light beams. Quantifiable objects but ones that don't exist within matter, quite literally impossible to catch and also quite literally as fast as light. Hand eye coordination is all about reflexes and thinking on your feet! So the combination of a fast object, and one that is quite impossible to ever catch, makes for the perfect training routine where there's no end to the game. The goal is unreachable, and that's what pushes your further and further to be better! But hey maybe you want something a little more practical as a breather. In that case just puck balancing and working with bouncing a tennis ball around off your hockey stick will do just the trick as well! Diversity in your training routines is just as important as identifying the ones that work best for you. 177 words.
jbay7
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The best way to train hand-eye coordination? Well that's easy: video games. If it's good enough for brain surgeons, it's good enough for hockey players! The best part about it is that virtually any game will work, which means you can find a game you enjoy regardless of your interests! Sure, some athletes well and truly stay in their lane and might stick to something like NHL 24 or NBA 2k24 or FIFA, er sorry uhh "EA FC" or whatever, but there's plenty of genres to explore and thousands upon thousands of titles to choose from! There's high intensity, lightning reflex needed shooters like Counter-Strike or Call of Duty, or more strategic, competitive games like DOTA or League of Legends. Lakemore also has recommendations for more story driven, single player games-- there's Outer Wilds and Lies of P, or even classic games like Skyrim or older Final Fantasy games. Unfortunately though there are lots of fun games that are less "finger intensive", Lakemore cannot truly suggest them for someone mainly looking to train hand-eye coordination, which precludes him from suggesting Bloons Tower Defense. This is truly a tragedy. (197 words)
S68 - Jarrod Lakemore - C
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Seeing Bobby Orr in Hugh Manius dreams is really nothing out of the ordinary. The legendary of often dream about and Hugh can remember several conversations that he has had with the duly departed legend. Now Orr bringing up his mite coach that was something a bit different. Mr. Heffner a bit a tool but an acceptable mite coach was hardly anything wonderful. Although Orr’s revisit to Hugh was welcome and it was good to hear from him again even if it just a reminisce over hockey games and play. Every time has his dreams and conversations with Orr, he always feels better about himself for some strange reason. Somewhat it is just reassuring. The one odd thing was waking up the Bobby Orr-autographed pharmacy receipt from last Tuesday and what could it mean. Hugh knew what it meant clearly has been spending too much time chasing tail and getting loaded on Bourbon Street.
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Option 2:
Jack explained carefully his routine to Cob o'Corn, who asked him for advice on how to enhance his own hand eye co-ordination skills purely to make conversation and to be polite. Cob couldn't understand how what was being explained to him could help in anyway shape or form, but Jack was enthusiastic, and offered to show him the routine as his words were not doing any justice to the training at all. Jack pulled out his yo-yo, a treasured family heirloom that had been passed down his family tree from the start of the great war. His great grandfather had used it to pass the time in the trenches, back in those days, yo-yos were made with heavy steel, Edward Keigan always kept it in his breast pocket, and when a German sniper shot him with a high caliber rifle, it would have saved his life if the sniper had shot him in the heart rather than his head. As Jack completed a near flawless walk the dog trick with the old rusty yoyo, Cob finally understood. This was a game changer. |
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