At the early stages of a youth athlete's "career" you see a variety of athleticism in all of the opposing athletes that your athlete encounters. What is more elusive is the kind of vision that allows the athlete to analyze all of the aspects of a given situation. The location of an opponent, their posture, the location of teammates and their state of preparedness and using anticipation, timing and their sense of spatial relations to react to the situation.
For a long time, the field vision was one of those things that was thought to be innate in an athlete and either you had or you didn't. Athletes with this innate sense were the youth athletes that often progressed to the highest levels of their sport.
There is hope for those parents who don't see that innate sense in their own youth athlete. In an article in Wired Magazine (
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/15-06/ff_mindgames) a researcher with the US Olympic Committee, suggests that. Some research has indicated that showing athletes hjow to analyze certain kinematic cues (the factors that go into an opponent's posture and movement before taking action).
