Time Coach 321 Lite

Your brain computes the future of moving objects. Visual anticipation is central to success in most sports and in many every day activities. People differ in just how far into the future they see clearly. This app exercises and measures how far into the future you are able to accurately predict the path of a moving ball. It provides: * One exercise of straight motion * Four options of speed * An option of coaching to help extend anticipation time * One exercise of reaction time * Graphing of progress within and across sessions * No adds In sports, your sense of timing is as important as your coordination and strength. Act too soon and your effort is waisted, as when a runner 'jumps the gun' or a lineman in football moves before the snap. Act too late and your effort is wasted as well. Acting at the right moment, will usually involve two timing abilities. One is your quickness to react to an event, and the other is your ability to see what is coming in the immediate future. The former is what we commonly call your 'reaction time' and the latter is your 'anticipation time.' Your ability to react to a past event will depend on the complexity of that event. Reacting to the presence versus absence of an event (like your opponent's move to the left) takes less time than discriminating between two events (like whether you opponent's move is real or a fake). A double discrimination takes even longer (as in reacting to an open team mate standing in front versus behind the half court line in basketball). TimeCoach 321 Lite gives you exercise in reaction time to the first level of complexity. Anticipation time is more complicated and possibly more important than reaction time in most sports. Certainly that is so for sports using a ball. Anticipation involves predicting the future. With experience, it can seem as if you are literally seeing where the ball is going before it gets there. The same is true for the future positions of moving people. You need to react to that predicted future position of ball or person. So your effective anticipation time (which is what this app measures) is affected by how fast you react to the moment you see the future clearly. A major difference between anticipation time and reaction time is that you want your reaction time to be as short as possible but you want your anticipation time to be as long as possible. A basketball rebounder who sees 1.5 secs into the future and can react to that vision in 300 ms (1000 ms = 1 sec.) is going to have a big advantage over someone who only sees 1 sec into the future with the same reaction time. Even aller differences between two athletes' effective anticipation times can be critical in fast ball-motion sports like baseball, tennis, and soccer. TimeCoach 321 Lite provides exercise and measurement of your effective anticipation time in variations of straight ball movement. The app provides graphing of your progress within a session for up to 30 completed trials. You can end a session any time. The app will save your best trial score for a session of any length. You can graph up to 30 of these session-best scores. As you improve (getting higher scores in anticipation and lower scores in reaction time), you will probably also see your graphs becoming oother as your times become more consistent. Although TimeCoach 321 Lite cannot promise that increasing your skill in the exercises of this app will directly improve your athletic prowess in your favorite sport, it should at least help you sense the role of these timing skills as you  take this experience to your game. Visit http://TimeCoach321.com for some links to research on the relationship of anticipation time and experience in sports.