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Relevance of cognitive performance
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What separates world-class athletes from average ones is that they perceive their environment faster and predict their opponent's movements and game progress significantly better. This elementary cognitive skill is called anticipation and is responsible for making fast decisions under pressure.
Winner or loser?
There are often only fractions of a second in between.
For example, in pro sports, athletes must execute their read-and-react skills under pressure within milliseconds - a skill that often determines the outcome of an entire season. The difficulty is that the human brain is quickly overwhelmed when situations and processes around us occur faster than we are used to. In this case, the error rate in decision-making increases significantly. This can happen in sports, for example, when athletes transfer to a better team, during a championship game against the strongest team in the league, or after lengthy injury breaks.
Preparation is everything.
In our virtual environments, athletes can face opponents at different performance levels and train their decision-making processes more frequently, more efficiently, and at a higher level of difficulty than in the real world without exposure to the risk of injuries. In addition, as a custom offering, they can also practice with plays from the playbooks of their teams.
Don't forget about FUN.
In everything we do, the fun factor is essential. Those who want to aim for perfection become even better when having fun with it. That is why we offer a training experience that increases performance, arouses ambition, and is fun at the same time – just like the real game.
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As time is a team's most valuable resource, our virtual training sessions enable athletes to execute in-game decision-making situations up to 12 times more often than is possible in classic training. In this way, athletes train their cognitive skills beyond limits, such as physical fatigue, even after a regular training session or during injury breaks. Increasing efficiency in daily training in this way is an unprecedented opportunity to get beyond current performance limits and, ultimately, make athletes more successful and valuable.
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In pro sports, opponents, teammates, and the whole game are faster, which means athletes have at least 10% less time to make decisions than, for example, in college. This is a big challenge for rookies. So imagine youth players could prepare for their step into a pro team by training their decision-making skills at pro-level speed; based on pro-level playbooks.
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It's all about daily practice, and returning to the field is not only exhausting for the body but also demanding on the cognitive side.
While recovering from an injury, keeping the sport-specific cognitive skills at the necessary high level is almost impossible. With our tool, injured athletes can keep their cognitive skills at a high level and return to the field stronger than ever before.
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