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Here's something that properly messed with my head. You can train your mind, your breathing, your self-talk, all the stuff I bang on about every week, and you can still walk on court, feel the pressure, and freeze, and it might have nothing to do with your mindset. It might be your eyes. Yes, your eyes.
My guest today is Dr. Aakash Shah, a board-certified neurodevelopmental and sports vision optometrist. Yeah, that's quite a mouthful. UCLA, a doctorate in optometry, adjunct professor, the lot. He works with everyone from kids chasing their first scholarship to pro quarterbacks and baseball players.
But here's the bit that got me. Akash was born with a lazy eye, no depth perception, and every single doctor told him the same thing. That's just how you are. Live with it. He didn't. Six years of training later, he did ten times the vision in that eye and got his depth perception back. The man rebuilt his own eyes, and now he does it for athletes. In this one, we get nerdy. Why eighty to ninety percent of your game is actually your vision. Why elite players really do see the ball in slow motion, and why it's not magic.
The one-eye drill that can calm your nerves mid-match. And he walks me through a free eight-minute neural warmup you can do before you play. I'm doing it live on the call, head wobbling all over the place and getting it wrong. If you've ever trained like a world beater and then shrunk on the big day, this might be the missing piece. Grab a pen. Let's get into it.
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