Improving Perceptions.

Following discussions about reaction times, with my knight and collective training group, arose this question: What can we do for our sport to specifically train our reaction time?

There are several webpages that can be found with general Google searches, here are a few of them:

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/reaction.htm

This one is about professional athletes using perception predict outcomes:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-06/ff_mindgames

Here is "A Literature Review on Reaction Time" report that has a lot of interesting items on factors effecting reaction times:

http://biology.clemson.edu/bpc/bp/Lab/110/reaction.htm




Also, there is a difference between visual and audible response. Sometimes we have had the "trigger" person stand behind the pell with a 6 foot baton held ~12" above it, and the "go" was on the baton strike to the pell.

Yet another variation is to number the strike points 1-4 and the "go" is the call of which # to strike. This introduces decision into the reaction; Is the strike reaction fast and correct?