Differences in Visuospatial Expertise between Skeet Shooting Athletes and Non-Athletes

Background: Sports vision is a specialisation of optometry whose objective to improve and preserve visual function increase sports performance. The main the present study was compare expertise non-athletes skeet shooting athletes. Methods: Participants underwent an optometric assessment in which all those with severe deviations from normal vision, after compensating for abnormalities, were eliminated. After that, following six visuospatial components measured: hand–eye coordination, peripheral awareness, fixation disparity, saccadic eye movements, speed recognition memory. To measure aforementioned components, tests used: directional arrows, similar different characters, dichromatic disparity test, character marking, tachistoscopic test tic-tac-toe using COI-vision software. Results: Skeet athletes performed significatively better (p ? 0.05) two out tests: coordination Conclusions: Although this does not support theory that athletes—in case, athletes—perform significantly most tests, memory are exceptions. be more accurate distinguishing between non-athletes, specific testing methods can used by wide variety disciplines should developed. Training weakest aspects their