"0.3 seconds faster per lap" 24 Hours Race win with Vision Training

clean look on "0.3 faster per lap, Bert Longin wants 24 Hours win with vision training !

( by Walter WAUTERS for De Standaard) translated

Bert Longin trains his depth perception under the watchful eye of Willem Boey.

Eye training is a virtually unknown phenomenon in these parts, little attention is given to vision, but in the US all NBA basketball players are visually screened. Racecar driver Bert Longin recognizes the effect after three months of VISION TRAINING: "I am three tenths of a second faster per lap"

Willem Boey picked up eye training during his optometry studies in the US. He is working hard in Belgium with Sportvision. Germinal Beerschot (national football/soccer champion) already came by, as other also olympic medal tennis star Els Callens, and now car racer Bert Longin.

“I work on three points with car racers”, Willem Boey explains. ,, Stress management, increasing concentration and depth perception.

Stress and external pressure, can literally press on the eye canal and disturb perception. This is dramatic for a car racer, because he receives 95 percent of his information through the eyes. We condition it against the stress by means of light therapy. Including a flickering light at a low frequency, to also lower the frequency in the brain to a relaxed state. Between 8 and 13 Hz is ideal. We also work with colored light. It has been scientifically established that the color of light guides our behavior. For example, red light awakens the adrenal fluids, this is good in the short term, but bad for an endurance athlete like Bert. He's better off with violet light, which slows down the production of adrenaline. ''

´’Pompaf’ = "flat out" exhausted, after the exercises of WILLEMS’ VISION TRAINING slot

Willem Boey is towing a device. The screen shows tiny letters while a bluish background dances in the background (Hidinger brush). Longin is asked to fix a letter with one eye (the other covered). A concentration exercise. "The average person can last for thirty seconds," Willem Boey says. “Longer than two minutes is exceptional. Bert could have done it for five minutes now. “ Judging by the sight, it takes a lots of effort. But we are only at the beginning. Longin puts on glasses that distort vision and must successively aim a ball into the basket and shoot at the goal. "To teach him to adopt the correct posture, because that is also vital for a good sight." Then Longin has to read a comic through double glasses, with different zooms. To make it switch very quickly from near view to distant view. Then tap the same point through corrective glasses with two sticks at the same time. An exercise for depth perception, very important for a car racer. After two hours of those exercises, Longin is gone, flat out exhausted.

Width and depth vision

“After the first session I was so broken that I barely got home by car,” Longin says. “But the next day I was super fresh. In the meantime, I have been doing it for three months, at the rate of two sessions per month, and I can definitely endorse the effect. The width view has improved considerably. I see more and more from the corner of the eye. Depth vision also improved. That is not an impression, I read that from the telemetry of the car: all my braking points to take a turn are correct, the best proof that I estimate the distance correctly. I also switch focus more quickly. When I was previously asked over the on-board radio to read data from the dashboard, it was always a tricky moment, because you have to keep one eye on the track. Now I look once and immediately have all the data.

The result of all these improvements is that your self-confidence increases, which further enhances the effect. Since the start of the year, I've gained three tenths of a second per round and I'm sure it's the Willems Vision Training. The car has not become faster, because the other drivers are running

Bert Longin in action on the 24hours of Francorchamps 2019

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