Sports vision
Optimise your results, fast, with the only sports specialist in Auckland accredited by High Performance Sports NZ.
Athletes
Perform better and achieve results faster with our tailored Sports vision training.
Step one
Athletes also need a comprehensive eye examination where we focus on your visual performance and identify any potential areas of improvement. This includes digital retinal photography, visual fields, visual acuity, binocular vision and a series of tests related to your specific sporting tasks including:
Low contrast sensitivity - visual performance under different lighting levels. This is especially important for evening sports.
Depth perception -how accurately a player judges depth and distance. This is essential for ball placement skills.
Having determined the most appropriate visual correction we can prescribe sports specific eye wear. This may include aerodynamic spectacles or googles with specific tints appropriate to the sport or contact lenses.
Step two
Once we have comprehensively assessed your visual needs and all aspects of your visual function, we can take you to the next level. We can create a customized sports vision training programs specific to your sporting code. Gates Eyewear is the only practice in New Zealand with a Sports Vision Trainer which can train your hand-eye co-ordination (how fast the eyes and hands can move).
The Sports Vision Trainer measure speeds of 1/1000th of a second for faster and more accurate ball handling and reaction time. So with training you can react faster than the competition!
Sally Rutherford, New Zealand Olympian - Gold medal commonwealth games
“I completed a series of sport vision training sessions with Jeremy at Gates Eyewear in the lead up to the Hockey World Cup and Commonwealth games, where we won the gold medal. In 6 weeks of sessions (which were a lot of fun into the bargain) using the light board my reaction speed increased, and the ability to pick up the line of a hockey ball flying towards me at 100km/hr transferred into making saves I had not been making prior to the sessions.
Jeremy and the whole team at Gates were great, taking an interest in the sport, watching video clips as well as and coming to watch games and training to help tailor the training specifically to Hockey GK and my areas of weakness.
Thanks Gates, the input definitely improved my Goalkeeping – and I would recommend it to anyone playing a sport where hand eye co-ordination and speed is important.”
Weekend warriors
Who are passionate and serious about sport.
Step one
Every sports vision assessment starts with a comprehensive eye examination where we focus on your visual performance and identify any potential areas of improvement. This includes digital retinal photography, visual fields, visual acuity, binocular vision and a series of tests related to your specific sporting tasks including
Low contrast sensitivity - visual performance under different lighting levels. This is especially important for evening sports.
Depth perception - how accurately a player judges depth and distance. This is essential for ball placement skills.
Step two
Your visual correction solution is implemented. This may include sports specific spectacles with your prescription and a specific tint or contact lenses. If you want to take your sporting skills to the next level, then we can implement a series of training sessions to help improve your eye hand speed co-ordination.
Why it pays to invest in eyewear
1.UV protection
If you are out training a few hours a day, you are exposing your eyes to a lot of UV radiation. Which has a cumulative toll on your eye and surrounding structures. The lens in your eye can develop cataracts faster if you do not protect them with 100% UV blocking sunglasses. All top quality sports sunglasses are 100% UV blocking.
2. Lens optics
The more you pay generally the better quality the optics and materials the frames are made of. Good quality lenses have little or no distortion. Distortion is often the reason why some cheap sunglasses give you headaches. Your brain desires the clearest image it can get and better optics facilitate this.
3. Lens coating
Mirror coatings can reduce some glare and this can be a real benefit on a bright day. Polarised lenses reduce the most reflected glare and are what boaties and fishermen use to see into the water. These are a must if you squint with even the darkest lens on. Compare them to a normal lens and you will see a significant difference.
View our sports eyewear range
Many of our sports sunglass brands Rudy Project, Vuarnet and Oakley have models that can be made into prescription sports specific eyewear incorporating wrap designs and even progressive lenses (this is prescription dependent).
Jeremy Wong
Optometrist - Sports vision specialist
BOptom / Member of NZAO / CertOcTher(ACO) Certificate in Ocular Therapeutics / Member Orthokeratology Society of Oceania
Specialist expertise: 30 years
Sports Vision training is Jeremys’ specific field of expertise. He has helped many prime athletes over the years achieve better results and has contributed NZ Triathlete Magazine, Paragliders NZ, Orienteering NZ, and Golf Update.
Jeremy’s clients include World champions, Olympic and Commonwealth Games gold medallists and professional athletes. Jeremy also loves helping weekend warriors and recreational sportspeople who are passionate and serious about their sport.
In addition, Jeremy is the only Sports Vision specialist in Auckland accredited by High Performance Sport New Zealand.