Reaction Ball for training and pre-game warmups.
SOLD IN GROUPS OF 3. ONE FOR YOUR HOCKEY BAG, GYM BAG, AND AT HOME.
Two Main Benefits
- Catching, tracking, coordination.
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Positive Affirmations. Seeing "Dialed In" over and over makes you feel dialed in for your game.
This will lead to:
- More glove saves
- Stronger self-belief
- Better hand-eye coordination
- Consistency in your warmup
- Better performance on the ice
Goalies have been using reaction balls to improve their game for years. Vladislav Tretiak did it in the 1970s, and we see NHL goalies today using it to warm up for games.
It's a tool you can bring anywhere with you. And it will change the way you play.
The Science behind it:
Reaction time is the time difference between a stimulus and a response to that stimulus. Definition - “the time that elapses between the onset or presentation of a stimulus and the occurrence of a specific response to that stimulus.”
https://dictionary.apa.org/reaction-time
Goalies - think about the time it takes to react to a shot, or a pass to a new player that one-times the puck.
The faster our reaction time, the more likely we are to make the save.
We are trying to improve our cognitive processing, our brain’s ability to detect, process, and respond to information. When you consistently identify the bounce off the wall, and even the text on the ball, your train your brain to process and react to changing information.
It’s important to also train a specific skill. The more we do a movement pattern, the more we strengthen those neurons of the Central Nervous System (CNS), so they become more efficient. Seeing and catching a ball bouncing off a wall is similar to catching a puck coming at you on the ice (not perfect, but close).
This is also a great way to improve your hand-eye coordination, which is the way that one's hands and sight work together to be able to do things that require speed and accuracy (such as catching or hitting a ball). Definition from Webster Merriam Dictionary.
You are training your ability to coordinate what your eyes see and how your body reacts.
This is why you see NHL goalies doing reaction drills before games.
Science behind positive affirmations: There is MRI evidence suggesting that certain neural pathways are increased when people practice self-affirmation tasks (Cascio et al., 2016). If you want to be super specific, the ventromedial prefrontal cortex—involved in positive valuation and self-related information processing—becomes more active when we consider our personal values (Falk et al., 2015; Cascio et al., 2016). - https://positivepsychology.com/daily-affirmations/#science
A study in the 1980’s popularized “self-affirmation theory”, which is basically how people respond to information that threatens their self-concept or self-identity. So by repeating these affirmations about ourselves, we’re able to maintain self-integrity by repeating these positive beliefs about ourselves.
Study about positive affirmations and how they work on the brain: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4814782/
The more you tell yourself something, the more you believe it. Tell yourself you’re a winner, you’re capable, you can achieve anything, and you’ll start to believe it and act that way. That is the power of self-affirmations.
Seeing "Dialed In" on the reaction ball every time you use it, reinforces that you are in fact, "Dialed In". This increases your confidence and leads to better performance on the ice.
As you now know, using the "Dialed In" reaction balls on a regular basis and before games will:
Improve your hand-eye coordination and tracking ability.
Train the movement pattern of catching an object like a puck.
Strengthen your cognitive abilities by identifying and processing information.
Build your confidence and self-belief.
Made out of a racquetball type material, these reaction balls bounce fast but won't hurt your hands when you catch them.
Now you can improve your glove hand and mental strength all in one exercise.
