When you're at the bottom of the ladder and without a win after six rounds, you might as well just try everything.
It's the position Sydney are in at the moment, and the Swans decided to try out a new technique ahead of their clash with Brisbane at the SCG on Sunday.
During a routine training session on Wednesday, players wore Stroboscopic glasses, which essentially makes a drill harder by reducing vision and information at your disposal, which then trains your brain to perform the skill with fewer visual cues.
Two-time NBA MVP Steph Curry also used the specs back in the off-season a couple years ago, before bursting out and elevating his points per game to 30.1 in the 2015-16 season and being crowned the Most Valuable Player in the league.
“The two things it is trying to train are ball handling and vision,” Swans High Performance Manager Peter Berbakov told the Herald Sun.
“By restricting your vision and the amount of information you’re able to process it makes you focus on what the relevant cues are. The aim is to process things quicker and being able to handle with the same level of skill.
“The aim is to make better decisions.
“The plan is to use them in more game-like situations. There are different levels on the strobe so you can have it as a very basic on-off. You can set it so see more than you don’t see and once you master it at one level you can up the speed so it flashes more and you get less visual cues.”
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