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Sports enthusiasts were spoilt for choice this weekend, with F1 and the Mens Singles Tennis Championship. If you are a budding pro-athlete or just an odd day enthusiast for sports, vision is vitally important. Sports Vision can include training as being able to see an eye chart at ten metres is very different from tracking say, a moving ball. You may be able to focus on it but your vision is part of a set of skills including peripheral vision and perception of depth. Most of what we understand about our surrounding environment is experienced through our eyes, rather than our other sensory organs.
Despite regular eye examination checks, and being advised your eyes are healthy, you may still benefit from an appointment with an optician specializing in sports vision. The testing is far more in-depth as it also encompasses how you "see" while moving and interacting with other players, both inside and out.
It can assess your concentration as a sportsman, how you anticipate things, agility, speed and your hand to eye coordination.
The test itself may be as indepth as to use 3-D image displays, so measure how you react to things as in real life using holographic light projection. A specific slide viewer, and depending on what your discipline is, can be taken out into the field to measure in real time and provide full evaluation of your visions performance.
Following on from the test itself the specialist will be able to advise on the most appropriate eye wear for your sport, and a very important factor, but one we would rather not think about, is assistance in eye injuries.
For the die hard sports enthusiast, the aim is always to "up your game" and without your eyes doing what they should be doing, I'm afraid to report, you may find yourself in Murrays shoes!