Comments on: How to Anticipate Better (Step 1: Stand Still)

By: djcoyle

djcoyle — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:37:04 +0000

I like that, Alex. Reminds me of Bill Bradley, the basketball player in the great book “A Sense of Where You Are,” who would walk down the street and try to improve his court vision by using his peripheral vision to name what was in the shop windows.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:43:36 +0000

I’ve actually done this test as a training with my cousin, planning to do it again, better write on my to do list.

One training I developed for myself when I was a kid was to block punches coming while I was looking away at the television. It helped my play as I become better able to see things around me without needing to look, it did made a bit harder for me to focus on classes on school though as it amplified my field of vision for distractions too.

By: Hersh

Hersh — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:25:27 +0000

Hey Daniel have you looked into Lumosity? It’s pretty cool stuff.

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:31:44 +0000

Speaking of ” no space and no time for a good result” FUTSAL! This is a traditional sport that the Brazilians brought to light. A huge chunk of the “Ronaldo’s” of the world play this game. Small area 4vs4 everything is touch and go no time to think no space etc. Hours and hours of futsal is a nice blueprint for a lot of these guys. BTW, if you haven’t seen the entire 1.5 Ronaldo experiment show, it’s a nice watch as you see what a great athelete this guy is with an amazing vertical jump explosive power and very agilie.

By: djcoyle

djcoyle — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 22:42:02 +0000

That is a terrific story — thanks for sharing it. It reminds me of the hockey games we used to play in our basement, which made us better players outside. No space and no time makes for a good result.

By: Garnet

Garnet — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 20:24:57 +0000

This reminds me of the story from ‘Bounce’ of a ping pong player who was renowned for his lightening quick reflexes. Except that when he was tested for reflex speed he was the slowest in the club. His ‘reflexes’ came from confined practice space as a youngster, training him to read his opponents body movements much like Ronoldo is doing here.

Makes me wonder if the type of training you see this racing driver doing at 1:05 are actually very useful http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-KYASQKdSU. Will this make him a better driver, or just better at catching balls bouncing off the wall?

btw almost finished TLBT, great book!

By: Rod Roth

Rod Roth — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 19:53:54 +0000

Dan, My trading mentor always tells me to take my trade based on an entry signal and to exit based on feel. He is a past master at it. I’ve only recently begun to “let” myself do this. I can see now that his forty years of experience have given him many thousands of trades to be able to anticipate an optimum exit. Ronaldo’s execution is beyond superb. Thanks