Keeping Target Focus with Movement

If the ability to maintain target focus with movement is important to you, you want to know about the vestibular system. It is one thing to keep a target in focus when stationary but maintaining that ability with movement is a much higher skill level. This is because when stationary there is significantly less demand… Continue reading Keeping Target Focus with Movement

How Subconcussions Can Impact Mental Health

Unique to tactical athletes is the volume of subconcussive forces they are exposed to, particularly subconcussive blast exposures. These exposures have been associated with later life depression, apathy, and poor emotional control. [1-3] Mental and emotional health is, unfortunately, still a touchy subject for many. While there are many factors that influence mental health, repeated… Continue reading How Subconcussions Can Impact Mental Health

Acceleration/Deceleration Subconcussive Impacts

One mechanism of subconcussive injury is that of rapid acceleration/deceleration. This is called a coup contre-coup injury. We often focus only on the mechanism of direct hits to the head as important head trauma and solutions often only focus on that mechanism. We find the best helmets for football, stop heading soccer balls, and create… Continue reading Acceleration/Deceleration Subconcussive Impacts

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Havana Syndrome: An Attack on Situational Awareness Capability

Recently the Director of the CIA has told Russia that if they are behind the multiple attacks on US personnel using what is suspected as directed energy, there would be “consequences”. [1] Havana Syndrome is the term used for the concussion-like symptoms the victims of these suspected attacks experience. These symptoms include dizziness, unsteadiness, cognitive… Continue reading Havana Syndrome: An Attack on Situational Awareness Capability

What You Should Prioritize After Subconcussive Exposure

The one thing you should prioritize after known subconcussive exposure is sleep. Subconcussions are head impacts that don’t result in clinical symptoms, but there is subtle neuro-inflammation post subconcussive exposure. [1-2] Sleep can be a touchy subject for tactical athletes. You know the importance of sleep, but your sleep deprivation is often outside of your… Continue reading What You Should Prioritize After Subconcussive Exposure

Processing Speed- The Audiovisual Temporal Binding Window

When in a highly stimulating environment it is important to filter the stimuli and determine what is important and where it is coming from. Doing this quickly is vital for quick reactions and high performance, particularly in the tactical community. This goes back to fast reactions requiring 3 steps: input, processing, output. The processing step… Continue reading Processing Speed- The Audiovisual Temporal Binding Window

Look Away- The High Level Skill of Anti-Saccades

Quick eye movements away from a stimulus are called anti-saccades. We innately want to quickly move our eyes toward a stimulus (toward a sound or light), therefore anti-saccades require higher level of processing and skill to suppress the reflexive movement and create an eye movement away from the stimulus. The ability to do so quickly… Continue reading Look Away- The High Level Skill of Anti-Saccades

Training The Sensory Systems With Specificity

Unique to tactical athletes is the level of performance the sensory systems for situational awareness must perform at. No other athlete or professional relies on their sensory systems to the extent that tactical athletes do. There are 4 primary sensory systems for situational awareness- visual, auditory, vestibular, and somatosensory. Each system has an important role… Continue reading Training The Sensory Systems With Specificity

Why You Should Know Your Max Speed With Divided Focus

You should know your max speed with a divided focus. You know your max deadlift, your best mile time, and your squat PR. Objectively measuring and improving your speed with a divided focus is important to know too. Why? Because your performance relies heavily on the ability to move with speed and precision under conditions… Continue reading Why You Should Know Your Max Speed With Divided Focus