DIY – The Awareness Game | Brain Games

how good would you say that your
hand-eye coordination is good really
good do you wish you could improve it
many athletes believe that simply
visualizing an action can improve their
coordination but does it work let’s find
out let’s run our experiment on the
greatest sport ever invented set up a
wastebasket crumpled up some pieces of
paper and try to make some baskets
sometimes you miss your shot sometimes
you make it here’s our question can
visualize in your throat before you take
it improve your shooting this time
before shooting try visualizing what
it’ll feel like for your arm to take the
shot and also the path that the paper
will take on its way to the basket get
set up do you see it
okay then take the shot if you’re
playing along at home try taking a bunch
of shots on half of them try visualizing
first on the other half just go ahead
and shoot keep track of your performance
does it really help to visualize there’s
some evidence that mental practice of
this sort can actually improve some
types of athletic performance now some
of these improvements might just be due
to getting yourself into a relaxed and
focused state of mind but some of them
might be because visualizing actions
turns out to activate some of the same
brain regions produced in making the
motions themselves