See the Footbag, Hit the Footbag

Even if you play with an Abshire Mini footbag, according to a Science Daily article, if you can think it’s bigger, maybe you’ll do better!!

The interactions between mind and body – perception and action – may be as interlinked as athletes believe them to be, according to Jessica K. Witt, a cognitive psychology doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia.

Of course, they’re actually talking about a study they did with baseball players:

When Mickey Mantle hit a 565-foot home run he said, “I just saw the ball as big as a grapefruit.” But Joe “Ducky” Medwick of the St. Louis Cardinals said during a slump that he was “swinging at aspirins.”

… but I think this concept applies to footbag as well. It may not mean that better players see the bag as “bigger” per se, but I think there’s definitely something to this. What do you think? (comment!!)