Where To Focus Your Eyesight In Fight Sports 

A tip my instructors told me to do to improve eyesight is stand in front of the shower head and let the water hit your chest and the water droplets will constantly hit your eyes or around causing you to blink but you have to try not to. A video on your techniques Gabriel would be amazing !

I have learned this many years ago when I learned fencing (saber) that since the hands are faster than the eye, don't be looking at it. This was reaffirmed when I was in the army reserves that the peripheral vision is better at picking up movement than straight on vision. In the army, they thought us that in the field (like a forest) that if we are looking for the enemy don't look straight at the area where we think they are, but to look to the side of it in order to pick up on any movement. Here is a more scientific explanation why what Gabriel said is on-point (not my quote): "Our peripheral vision is fed by "Rod Cells" in the eye. These cells are packed on the outer edges of the fovea (the center of your eye) and are therefore pick up information from the environment that is not directly being looked at (peripheral visual space). Your direct vision is supplied by "Cone Cells" in the eye, which are densely packed within the fovea. These cells are sensitive to colors and fine details (since they are so closely packed). [Hold your arm outstretched and give a "thumbs up", your thumb-nail at this distance is approximately the amount of visual space that the cone-cells are able to make fine discriminations] Unlike the fine-discriminating cone-cells, the rod-cells are attuned to MOVEMENT in the periphery, and are not reliant on bright-light situations. This is why, you tend to notice movement in your periphery very well. Heck, this is a great evolutionary advantage to be keenly aware of movement in your non-immediate visual space."

I love these basic videos. Even after having trained for 6 years now, these small reminders are still extremely valuable to me 🙏

Who had their eyesight locked onto the correct area? Have you checked on Lomachenko eye training drills?

Thank you for sharing all this great info about the fight game Gabe. You are a warriors and great champion. And always a good man

Great video! My coach taught me the same from day 1 and it works quite well with not getting caught easily.

This channel is a Gem. These basics must be taught at the beginning, but many instructors overlook these things. It would be helpful if you could make a video on how to overcome the nervousness before getting into the ring. It is not fear of getting hit, but something else that comes from the ring, the lights, the eyes of the spectators etc. These things causes distraction. I hope you understand what I meant to say. Thanks.

Awesome video! Too cool to hear this from a pro!

Definitely more videos on eye sight..Hooray!!

i am sooo glad that i found ur channel! so many useful tips that help me improve my skills. thank you so much

Reaaaaally needed this! But interestingly my coach always advised us to look at the should too.

Thank you so much Gabriel I was struggling with looking at which area of my opponent’s body for 2 months but thanks god you solved it for me ❤❤❤

Great advice. Thank you Gabriel

Your tutorials are so easy to understand. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Please do a video on eye sight drills 🤟🏼

Invaluable professional insight

Wow I was told to look from eyes to shoulders because you can see track body movement & positioning more. Definitely taking this into accout and would love more eye sight videos.

Now I not only want to see those tips about eyesight, but also I want even more you doing kata!

Learning to juggle is amazing for developing the soft gaze and its fun

I’d love drills for this please! Thanks for the great content!

Hey Gabriel, thank you!

Interesting that this approach taken by so many elite strikers is the same - and is very much in accordance with the Sports Science concept of the "Quiet Eye", though no combat sports coaches that I have seen specifically use that term.

Yes, tell us please about some eyesight drills 👊🏻

Love to see the tried and true fighters bust out some kata nice 💚

Thanks a lot for this !

Ty this is the video my subconscious wanted

Thanks for the great session as always! I'd love a video on eye sight exercises. Sounds like ninja training...

Always great video

thank you. a professional presentation.

The specific moovement track seems to work really well for Canelo!!

Great video!

Thank you Coach

keep em coming Gabriel :D

Thank you for the great video

Just want to let you know Gabriel i really enjoy your content and it has helped me greatly. Definitely best martial arts content on RU-vid. Merry Xmas to you and your family ☃️

Yes please show more eye sight techniques

thank you for your pro tips

Appreciate it man

Thanks

Would love to see those eye sight drills

Thank you Bro

Excellent. More on eye sight training.

Gracias muy bueno!!!

Good Video! Short but sweet. It made me think of a saying also. Bruce lee said 'It's like a finger pointing away to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory." But I think in this video "all the glory" would be your opponents strikes haha.

Thank you

One of the first things I teach my students

Basic but very important to clarify

Congratulations on the karate kombat brother

I really want to see those drills you're talking about !!

:) I have to show this to girls when I spar so I don't get that look The peripheral vision is awesome tip. It's just like how you stare at one point and see that fly moving around rather than follow it actively.

Dude I’ve been using your videos/workouts as help for my next fight. This is some great knowledge for people interested in competition.

I’ll like to see the drills for eyesight

i like this guy

Wow One thing in doing naturally right! Looking the chest give me a good periférical visión.

Good brief video,i must be crazy or something but i noticed in highlights reels that roy jones jr stared at the chest area,like his gaze is somewhat fixed so before you mentioned where to stare i had roy jones in mind you have to look at your opponet as a whole and react acordingly....i would love to see a video of your eating and workout habits beacuse that is one good looking mane

I usually rest my eye level under the opponent’s Chin area and pay attention to the peripheral I’m usually looking for my opening more then worrying about what he gonna do….paying attention to distance,height, reaches and looking for any patterns in his movement,pace, or combos that I can use so far works for me 17 yrs old Muay Thai. But like anything practice practice practice to build muscle memory and always working be open minded

More details on eyesight and drills.

It would be really great if you could make that follow up video about eyesight and tracking! I really get a lot of value from your videos. I'm finding that most of the high level explanations are great, but leave me unable to track footwork in sparring a lot of the time. Is there a way to track fists, legs, and feet or is that too much to take in during a sparring session or fight? An example is that I can't tell the difference between a hook and an uppercut until the shoulders or hips give it away. Is this expected or am I slow or lazy at something?

Thank you Coach - canelo does that same example you used - arm out then hits you with the opposite hand. Lol

Can you do a video on supplements/vitamins fighters should take

Can't have a good day training without a good GV tip.

Basics no one talks about ... But you r not just anybody ... U the MAN

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I like to see the eye drills

Usually I always look at the chest but when it spar. Smaller people looking at there chest is a little hard because I either end up just looking at. The top of there heads or where there eye line is.

Let’s see them drills playa

We want drills , great content!

just like my Taekwondo coach teach us. the look can be use as a distraction for examples if you want to do body kick look to the head while fainting movements that's used to do in a head kick. than kick to the body. it works if you fast enough cus taekwondo is about speed

I don't like looking into someone's eyes anyway! On a serious note it's creepy and looking into someone's eyes is basically a window into their soul giving away your intentions to your opponent or vice versa and I don't feel like playing psychological games when I'm fighting! And yes it causes you to trip up and freeze allowing you to get knocked out! This video was very informative I never really thought about looking at the chest before I'm going to use that now when sparring thank you! Staring at the chest is a strategy that really does make good sense! On a slightly different subject where do you suggest holding your hands at for an all-around decent guard?

Please share the drills!

Please drop some eyesight videos! Or drop the links if you already made them 😀

I would love to see the drills.

I personally look at the head and hands im taller 6”3 so if i look above people i see everything.

Don't look at, look thru 💯

Gabriel do pro fighters time their breathing like runners and cyclist do or is the fight pace too hectic for that?

Hi gabriel I was wondering if you were still planning to critique subscriber sparring and fight footage.

I heard you can even react quicker to things in your peripheral than things you're focusing on

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In my first kickboxing sparring class, they´ve punched me three times, on the nose and one eye, just because I didn´t know where to look at. Thanks, dude!

Thanks for the great video! Speaking of kata, I have heard that the first movement in the Karate kata Kankudai - where the two hands draw a large circle as the eyes look to the front - has the purpose of training peripheral vision. Please do share other exercises to improve use of vision in martial arts/combat sports!

1:40 chest area triangle 2:55 4:00

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Make a video about fighting and feeling. I do not hit it hits all by itself. Don’t think. Feelllll

I think center of mass is important to focus on, center of mass doesn't lie and it allways shows those significant damaging punches and kicks which you have to avoid. It also shows when opponent is offbalance or lightfooded. This is why you don't want to take any chest tattoos as an fighter, because any tattoo on your body makes your body movement being tracked easier. Even when you carry something, you allways want to know where center of mass is, object becomes lot easier to handle if you think just center, rotation of object doesn't take much energy, control COM. There is exceptions for this, fat fighters are dangerous because you really can't see them move before its too late, if they does it technically correctly. You can see skinny person movement instanlty but belly fighters you can't see what they does, fat has delay.

i find that the reflexball helps tracking fast movements. my reflexes are definitely noticeably sharper since using a reflexball 5 times a week for 2x 3 min rounds or more. i once did a 30 min round straight before with it. man were my arms jello after that. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VrVtijfTXuY.html 16oz gloves on helps with conditioning the shoulders. i also have 3 different balls to use that bounce differently. i got so good at hitting the ball even without gloves on that i can use it while on the treadmill forwards and backward

Haven't watched past 57 secs....for me, I like to watch the collar bone...leaves enough side-eye for everything to move...and always ignore the eyes sometimes they try to trick people.

if i'm sparring against a girl should i still look in that area?

I look at the hips just to check my opponent’s balance in certain situations

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Hundred yard stare

If you look at a angle on that jake Paul fight against woodley jake is looking at woodley’s body an lands the KO

I thought I knew where to look but once I had a match and got hit I couldn't look. 🙈 Cause I got punched 😂

GV with the Karen hair cut.

So thanks for my bad eyes, I can avoid looking to people's eyes huh 🤨

Mike Tyson also said the same thing because your opponent won't hit you with his face.

Who is the high level guys that look at the chest?

My trainer tells me to see the neck. I can see whole body from that sight.

*center mass. Use peripherals. Dont know what I'm talking about? Then you arent a warrior.*