Court
Vision

Training aids

Colour Call

The screen fills with one colour and switches on a timer. Call each new colour out loud without dropping your eyes to the ball.

Peripheral awareness · 8 colours · 2–8s

Count Call

One to five lines fill the screen, like fingers held up across the court. Count them and call the number, eyes off the ball. Flash mode blinks them for a window you dial, so you call what you caught.

Peripheral awareness · 1–5 · 2–8s

Stroop Call

A colour name written in the wrong ink. Call the ink, never the word. The dribble gives away every stumble while the brain argues with itself.

Interference · call the ink · 2–8s

Move Call

The screen is the coach: crossover, between the legs, behind the back, spin. Do the move it cuts to, then straight back to the pound, eyes up the whole time.

Reaction handles · 6 moves · 3–10s

Arrow Call

The screen points, you move: attack, retreat, slide left, slide right, dribble alive the whole way. You face the screen, so left means your left.

Mirror drill · 4 directions · 3–10s

Light Drill

Traffic lights for the dribble. Green: attack. Amber: retreat. Red: dead stop, ball alive in a low pound. Speed you can stop is the only speed that counts.

Speed control · 3 lights · 2–8s

Handling Circuit

One move per round, ground non-stop for the whole work clock; the rest shows the next call. Handling and engine in the same session.

Skills under fatigue · work/rest rounds · 8 moves

Beep Test

Shuttle runs between two lines to beeps that close up every level. 20 metres for the real test, shrinkable to whatever space you've got. Run until you can't hold the pace.

Aerobic fitness · 20 levels · 8–30m

Shuttle Sets

Flat-out shuttles for a fixed work interval, then rest and go again. Count your lengths each set; the score is how well the count holds up, not the first one.

Repeated effort · decrement % · short spaces

How it works

Prop a phone or tablet at the far end of the court, then work your handles while you call out what the screen is doing. You can't see the change unless you're actually looking up, which is the whole point.