Smartphones are ruining skills and awareness, claims England rugby coach

• Vision specialist Sherylle Calder speaks of ‘decline across different sports’• ‘We develop visual motor skills by climbing trees, walking on walls’Sportsmen and women who spend half their lives glued to their smartphones should look away now. According to the expert hired to improve the hand-eye coordination of England’s rugby team, there has been a significant decline across all sports in skill and visual awareness over the past six years – a period when staring at a screen has become increasingly normal for all ages.Dr Sherylle Calder, a South African vision specialist recruited by the Eng…