The only sports vision specialist in Auckland accredited by High Performance Sports NZ.

Athletes 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.

Gates Eyewear expertise

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 customised 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!

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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.

  • 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.