The NIH is a government organization. They funded this research at a university. A LL coach could have saved us a lot of money.
How to catch a fly ball
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quote:Warren said the Brown research, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, eventually could be used in robotics or to help people with vision problems.
The ability to catch a ball is a very complex maneuver. The point of the study was not to figure out how to teach youngsters to catch a fly ball as coaches figured that out decades and decades ago
The point was to figure out the dynamics and models that describe "mathematically" how to catch a ball specifically and more generally how human depth perception works. I doubt there are many little league coaches out there who know how to generate the models.
And it is one of those things (catching a fly ball) that is taken for granted. I met a young man this weekend who was a prospect and all of the sudden couldn't catch a flyball. After tests it was determined that he had a benign brain tumor. He had successful brain surgery and is back on track. Great kid, wonderful family, fantastic story. Even catching a fly ball is a blessing and understanding the miracle that is the human brain should not be understated.