“Try Out” the FocusBand for FREE

Most of us like to try out an App to see if we can use it.

The FREE FocusBand App has a Simulator which can be used for training and evaluating initially without the FocusBand Headband. Brain signals are simulated internally which covers the majority of the Apps functionality

Ironically using the Simulator along with the Getting Started instructions is the quickest way to get to know what the  the FocusBand is all about.!

With the included “Simulator” you can work your way through the Options page

What you can “Try out”

1. Breathing - set your inhale/exhale rhythm
2. Learn how to set the BaseLine
3. Learn about Mushin & Quiet Eye and how they are used in the preshot routine
4. Learn how to use the NeuroCombine
5. Learn about the Stats & reporting
6. Learn about the options and when to use them
7. Learn how to configure your personalised music and avatar
8. Learn what the Quick Settings

The FocusBand App is available for FREE from the App stores. Search for “focusband” all one word  

ENTER OUR NEUROVISION CONTEST for a chance to win a....

ENTER OUR NEUROVISION CONTEST! - For a chance to win

   A FREE FOCUSBAND 

     

    PLUS other minor prizes

    
     Entries closing 30th May 2017

The NeuroVision app lets you “see” and “feel” what’s happening

This  scenario is what every athlete dreams of ….
How to  improve  their skill  “involuntarily”
Notice how infants  involuntarily put their hands in place to brace their fall?

Video examples:

Golf:

Air Flight Simulation:

Race Car Simulation: 

Ten Pin Bowling:

   

Prizes

1st = FocusBand (Value $500.00 )
2nd = FocusBand Advanced Online Training (Value $500.00)
3rd = 12 months subscription to our Cloud (Value $240.00)
4th = FocusBand Intermediate Online Training (Value $200.00)

It’s easy! ..... Here’s how to enter:

1. Take a video with our NeuroVision App and use the hashtag #Focusbandcontest2. Send your Name, Email & video URL to Elaine@focusband.com so your entry is valid & official before 30th of May.
3. Share the video with your friends so you can start obtaining "likes"
4. Winners will be based on "likes"
5.We’re giving away NeuroVision App for FREE. For more info & to claim your promo code elaine@focusband.com

Official Rules: 

1. FocusBand retain the rights to use the video for their promotion work.
2. Entries for the first stage close on the 30th May 2017
3. Videos must be authentic & you have permissions to upload the video
4. The video must show the FocusBand Logo while the headset is on the player
5. Maximum length 60 seconds
6. FocusBand’s decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into.
7. There is no Entry Fee
8. Content must comply with all local and national laws of the country of origin and the United States. Content must not 1) promote illegal behavior; 2) support racial, religious, sexual or other invidious prejudice; 3) advocate sexual or violent exploitation; 4) violate rights established by law or agreement; 5) invade the privacy of any person; or 6) be otherwise inappropriate as determined by Population Connection in its sole and conclusive determination.
9. Winners will be announced by email
10. If you would like to Enter the contest but don't have the NeuroVision App, we are going to give away Promo Apps so you can try the NeuroVision App for FREE. 

Cloud Analytics - What's It All About

There’s a lot of buzz about Cloud analytics in golf coaching organizations.

How can you apply Cloud analytics to improve athlete’s results and performances?

To do so means measuring & leveraging the digital data available to you – both structured and unstructured.

Unstructured data is often text data, such as reports and scorecards.

Cloud analytics is the process and technology used to make better sense of large amounts of digital data.

Cloud analytics enables you to engage with the Cloud to answer your questions, solve inconsistency, and uncover trends and insights.

You can also use Cloud analytics to drive innovation and pursue breakthrough coaching ideas.

Let’s look at the different types of Cloud analytics available to you:

1. Descriptive analytics

Answer the question: What happened?

Descriptive analytics helps you get in touch with reality, providing visibility and a single source of the truth. Apply descriptive analytics eg Cloud Team Summary Report to provide greater levels of visibility across your athletes.

2. Predictive analytics

Answer the question: What might or will happen?

Predictive analytics helps you pinpoint the most likely outcome – and its process implications. For example, using predictive analytics, you can project where a process may breakdown under pressure. .

3. Prescriptive analytics

Answer the question: What should we do about it?

Prescriptive analytics helps you solve problems. Harness prescriptive analytics to incorporate drills to reduce time and effort in resolving the process issue.

Grounding, a Brain Booster

Grounding may also boost your mood. In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of California - Irvine tested 40 adults to see if grounding could improve mood. Part of the group grounded for one hour; the others did not ground. The participants' moods were assessed on a special scale before and after the experiment. Those who grounded reported pleasant and positive moods, while the others had no improvement. The researchers reported their findings in the April 2015 issue of Psychological Reports.

Everybody benefits from grounding, but in different ways. The positive results can come quickly and dramatically, such as less pain and better sleep, or subtly and gradually over time. Often, people who are very ill or are saddled with various symptoms notice a dramatic difference. Someone who has radiant health and sleeps well might not feel the differences so dramatically, but connecting to the earth helps preserve and perpetuate that good health.

Through the simple and powerful method of grounding, we can remember our connection to nature and, in so doing, reclaim aspects of our health that need rejuvenation. Where there is Earth, there is healing.

The FocusBand NeuroSkills app has a guided audio “feet” drill which trains awareness on your feet as you walk. In golf this assists the athlete to “read greens with their feet” as well as maintaining dynamic balance throughout a golf swing.  

Meditation

Meditation

Research has shown,  the biological and physiological benefits of meditation.

If you suffer from physical, mental, emotional stress, or illness, this is for you. All of us at one point in time, suffer from stress, anxiety, depression, blood pressure .. you name  it.

We would like to introduce you to the FocusBand. - a modern Neurofeedback system,  that will assist you to meditate in no time at all.You simply focus on the avatar or the tones, with the intention to switch them on. Your brain knows that this means you are in  a calm state,  so it is  able to learn  to change states.

The Focus Band  meditation sessions, enables you to reduce the inner voice chatter and calm the mind, so that you draw from the power inside of you. and less,  from outside of you.We have incredible strength in our mind and in our own bodies

The Focus Band will let you access that strength, so that you are able to handle any difficulties, or challenges, that life has to offer.

Download the free FocusBand from the App Store

Deepak Chopra announces FocusBand will be ..

Deepak Chopra announced via live periscope today the use of the FocusBand for sports, yoga and meditation.

Jason Goldsmith will head up the sports segment with Deepak himself doing the Meditation.

Eddy Stern will head up the Yoga platform. Eddy is know for his involvement with many of the celebrities that have taken yoga on board

The FocusBand will enable Deepak's clients to now quantify and validate their training sessions.
Over time their results can be downloaded from the Cloud to monitor their progress.

Breathing is one of the key elements Deepak teaches and again the FocusBand  will be able to train the client to find a comfortable breathing rhythm which they can train with.

Sustained breathing rhythms reduce HRV ( Heart Rate Variability)  a major factor to consider for a healthy body and brain.

Deepak stated that the three platforms ( sport, yoga and meditation) will be rolled out over the next moth via their Jiyo.com platform

Use Your Noggin - Like Jason Day

By now, you've probably noticed Jason Day's pre-shot routine. Day flutters his eyes open and closed behind the ball(right) while taking a deep breath before stepping into nearly every shot. It might look odd but it has a purpose. It's the result of Day's work in controlling brain activity using an app-based product called FocusBand.

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When you wear the company's headgear and hit a golf shot, sensors record what's going on in your head - namely, are you focused or are you distracted?

The device was invented in 2009 by the Australian father and son team of Graham and Henry Boulton to help train athletes in all sports get into what is commonly known as the zone", or as the Boulton's call it, a "state of no-mindedness or Mushin". The goal? Training your mind to perform the process of each swing without having to consciously think about the routine or the outcome as you perform it.

The FocusBand app displays your brain score after each shot - known as the Mushin Factor - and gives you easy to decipher feedback on how well you were able to clear your mind by using colour-coded images of the brain. Shades of red indicate loss of focus, green means you are in the zone.

Adding to its golf application is a partnership with the launch monitor company, FlightScope. You can analyse your brain activity alongside with your swing data with its VX app.

It's fascinating to see if there is a correlation between how you felt about your swing, the result of the shot and whether the app indicates your mind was clear. This might help explain the age-old frustration of why you hit it great on the range but struggle on the course. Your brain is getting in the way. - Stephen Hennessey