JUGGLING

To improve your eye/hand coordination and your peripheral vision simultaneously, there’s no more fun or thorough way than learning how to juggle.  Add juggling to your list of basketball tricks.

Juggling good for the brain, study shows.
Thursday, January 22, 2004 Posted: 10:33 AM EST (1533 GMT)
from cnn on line .

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- It's a great party trick and useful for circus performers but scientists said this week that learning to juggle can cause changes in areas of the adult brain.
Mastering the skill increases the amount of grey matter in areas of the brain that process and store visual information, proving what was not thought possible -- that new stimuli can alter the brain's structure.
A comparison of brain-imaging scans of non-jugglers and other volunteers before they learned to juggle and three months later, revealed an increase in grey matter in certain areas of the newly trained jugglers' brains.

To rapidly improve your peripheral vision one of the finest exercise one can do is walking while juggling, especially through some type of obstacle course.  How about doing your defensive drills while juggling?

One cannot over estimate the advantages a juggling athlete has over a non-juggler!