alexander arnold oh brilliant glorious
execution he must be one of the most
sought-after footballers in europe
oh that's wonderful vision from gent
alexander arnold
i'm not sure there's a better pattern of
the ball in the premier league right now
i've been doing this for 16 years
you would think that i've worked on
everything
you know all about his talents but how
much more can this young man improve
from day one you're taught technique but
really
the foundation is your vision
to be given the opportunity through red
bull and dr lobby
is an unbelievable experience for me i
wanted to be tested
i wanted to be pushed it's so hard
i wanted to show people that i was
capable of doing things that they didn't
think i could
i'm hoping to leverage that to make him
a weapon
on the pitch that is unstoppable i want
his personal best i want his maximum
effort
and that's how we're going to have the
best improvement at the end of this
project
we have to fully challenge him give it a
task that is exceedingly difficult
so he has to work harder and leverage
all the visual skills we've trained
to complete it properly that's when like
the penny dropped i didn't need to work
on this
i think best case scenario is that it'll
help me see things and
maybe react quicker and be able to see
things that others can't
for me it's about wanting to improve and
pick up
them little one percent two percenters
that will
make me a better player and make me
better than others
i've had the pleasure over the years of
helping
many top flight elite athletes improve
when i got the call from red bull to
come and work with one of the most
exciting young talents
in premier league football i was really
excited about that opportunity
taking somebody who is so good and
already at the top of his game
to take that person and find that little
one percent or two percent to squeeze
out the last piece of juice out of there
that's what we're trying to do here and
that's the pressure
the testing system we put together for
trent followed that vision pyramid
what does each eye see it was a simple
vision test how well could you see
i guess pct pct is right i thought
i'm gonna go through the whole of today
and i'm gonna be the best athlete he's
ever worked with
the next level of the pyramid we had to
look at his death perception
how he uses both eyes together and most
importantly in sport
targets that are not seen for a very
long time
hey well i was raised
we want to see how can trent concentrate
on targets on the pitch there's many
many players you have to be able to
track multiple targets at the same time
that was the one that found the hardest
and struggled up the most
the footballer doesn't have time to
study and look to see what they're going
to do they have to
decide quickly
is he fast enough his foot eye
coordination
his ability to move the ball in terms of
speed
for the final assessment we wanted to
have a
way of unifying all of trent's visual
skills to see a true experience very
much like what he has to do on the pitch
we're gonna look at accuracy of his
passes when he doesn't have much visual
information
trent had to identify which one was blue
for a very short time
the aim was to see how well visually he
could identify a target
with a quick look and he did very very
well with that
the most glaring issue that trent had
was the multiple target tracking
his score was was a fair amount below
where i'd like it to be
we're going to do some work in the
training that's going to be directly
related to the multiple target tracking
no one's
ever static on a pitch so focusing on
one point
and being able to see things that are
going on around you
spot on the thoughts which will be my
teammates will
help me there are lots of different ways
we
worked to train trent some of those were
simple apps that
were on a mobile device some of them
were actually
inside of a three-dimensional virtual
reality headset environment
yeah long arms in the game you're not
gonna find them one percent
it's it's in training oh my gosh we had
to
decide upon a group of things that would
take maybe 30 to 40 minutes
maybe three to five times a week in a
six or seven week training period
i'm gonna start with the neuro trainer
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i mean at first the training was just
tough it was
new i was struggling to really focus a
lot
yeah concentrate right when you're not
in the rhythm it was more difficult to
enjoy but with that game every three
four days
so it's tough to really get into a
routine it's so hard
the majoristic for me is myself i need
to be better
no pain no gain yeah exactly it says
brain processing speed
up now to 12 percent is that 12
better than what how it started
wow when we retest him
now am i nervous absolutely we always
want more training
but i think we actually together got a
fair amount done
i think tomorrow will be the the true
talent of hamlet
well today's a big day this is the
culmination of a whole project
we're gonna have a chance to see how
trent has performed
comparing his previous evaluations to
today's evaluations it'd be a waste of
time
and effort and everything if this has
all gone to waste
this time we're going to be looking at
the areas where there were questions
but it's not only about improving those
baseline tasks it's how we can transfer
that onto the pitch
multiple object tracking and visual
concentrations are probably the basis of
what he does on the pitch and that's a
skill that i think is central to his
ability i think he's good at that
but i'd like to see him be excellent to
that i'd say like the target traffic
that i struggle with the most
it's what i'm looking forward to it's
kind of been eating away at me
for the last six weeks knowing that that
was the biggest room for improvement
done right involved three point zero
four session complete
all right the way that i feel about the
day so far is that i've made some
improvements
and i'm excited to find out the proper
results
and so the first test we did really
small targets faint come up really fast
well we had a 44 improvement
this is probably in hitting a baseball
or being an archer any kind of sport
that requires really critical vision
that's what you got we saw you had
incredible reaction times
this time it's just like automatic
we saw that you're able to process and
execute a play very very well
mostly it just comes from confidence and
knowing that i've got the ability to see
it and
execute it multiple object tracking and
visual concentration
and to be honest with you when i left
you six weeks ago
that was my biggest concern frankly your
score is 0.39 when i'm looking for a
score above one
was a little bit concerning it was not
at the level
at all that i would hope for
you skyrocketed on this test your
score went from 0.39 to 1.33 240 percent
increase
that's i think really good this is the
star
resolved we went from trouble into
excellence
it is relevant to footballer first of
all
seeing a pass but also seeing what's
going on around
the past
so we do have one more challenge for you
and that's create a task that is
exceedingly difficult
where he has to thread the needle with
the ball
we're going to take that middle ring and
have it move left and right
and so the opening to get through all
three will be short
you'll assess the rings understand the
movement
apply all the vision that you have along
with your skill to put that right
through there in your moment of truth
okay
goodbye thank you
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wow
small adjustments right take a look to
see
what's going on understand what you have
to do
and make the success so fast
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yeah good job excellent
it's been amazing to be honest well
there's a ceiling to your talent and
then
to better that it has to be hard to work
you've got to keep striving for more
you