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CGG × Ares Elite Sports Vision
Your goalie's eyes and brain decide every save before the body moves. Ares Elite Sports Vision measures the systems that fire every play; CGG calibrates every drill and progression to that data. Development that starts where the save starts.
Light hits your goalie's eye. The brain reads it. The body responds. Every play. Before technique even kicks in.
Goaltending lives by the same logic. Read the play. Route the signal. Execute the save. Stay synchronized across every play.
A missed read is a goal before the body ever moves. If the eyes and brain don't catch the play, no technique can save it.
This is the foundation every rep is built on.
CGG’s most dedicated goaltenders don’t stop at the baseline. Vision Training, powered by Ares Elite Sports Vision, is the premium layer — reaction, tracking, and processing speed, trained year-round on AESV protocols, in person or at home. Because Milliseconds Matter™
$399/mo
8 sessions / month
4 guided tele-sessions plus 4 self-guided, with pre-game prep routines, on your own schedule — double the training for the same price.
A one-time ~$2,000 setup (budget-friendly options, yours to keep) that pays off over the long run.
$399/mo
4 sessions / month
4 guided sessions a month, in person — hands-on coaching on the full setup, nothing to buy or install.
Delivered at the Ares Elite Sports Vision Carmel office or a satellite location.
Starts with your Ares Elite Sports Vision evaluation ($449, waived if completed).
Not with CGG yet? Vision Training is exclusive to our goaltenders — start a program from $59/mo and add it on. See the programs →
Technique and conditioning can only cash in on the reads your goalie makes in the first place. Vision Training trains those reads — the skill the rest of their game is built on. Here's what your goalie gains.
It starts with a one-time AESV evaluation that maps every visual system behind a save. From there, Cam coaches to your goalie's exact gaps — no generic protocol.
AESV's pro-grade setup — the equipment and A.R.E.S. protocols that normally live in a performance clinic — running in your home. Exclusive to CGG goaltenders, available nowhere else.
The actual A.R.E.S. protocols, trained consistently at home or in person — same equipment, same data capture, calibrated to your goalie's profile.
Train as often as your week allows. Consistency is what compounds — the more reps stack up, the faster the gains.
Every session is tracked. The data sharpens Cam's coaching and shows you the progress — measurable, season over season.
The same evaluation doubles as a clinical concussion baseline your medical team can reference — for diagnosis, recovery, and return-to-play if a hit ever happens.
Three steps to your goalie's personalized Vision Training plan.
Pick a time on AESV's calendar — their team handles scheduling and payment. The evaluation runs with Dr. LaPlaca personally. Have questions first? Email him before booking.
A 75-minute comprehensive evaluation with Dr. LaPlaca at the AESV Carmel office. Afterward, he builds your goalie's report — a full visual-cognitive baseline.
Share the report, and the plan is built around what it reveals — every gap becomes a target, every target a drill. Your goalie trains it at home or in person, powered by Ares Elite Sports Vision.
Four systems that turn what your eyes see into what your body does on the ice.
What your eyes take in before your brain has time to sort it.
For your goalie: Read the puck, traffic, and shooter cues earlier.
How your brain sorts what you see and decides what to do.
For your goalie: Better decisions under pressure. Fewer false reads.
The signal your brain sends to your body to move.
For your goalie: Right movement, right amount, right time.
Brain, body, and the play moving as one — every second.
For your goalie: Stay locked in through rebounds, scrambles, and chaos.
Every millisecond lost across the loop is a save left on the table. Stack them across a game, a season, a career — and you've drawn the line. Between winning and losing. Between a good goalie and a great one.
Cam holds the A.R.E.S. CPVT certification and operates inside the AESV system with support from Dr. LaPlaca and the AESV team. CGG isn't referring you to vision training — Cam is reading your goalie's report, building the on-ice and off-ice protocols around it, and integrating progress across their training.
A.R.E.S. Certified Performance Vision Trainer™ (CPVT)
The foundational certification for athletics, strength & conditioning, and performance training professionals.
All methodology, frameworks, and technology referenced here are the exclusive property of Ares Elite Sports Vision. CGG is an authorized user of the system.
IndyCar drivers and pit crews. NBA officials. Air Force pilots. Hockey goaltenders from youth to pro. Wherever vision decides the play, Dr. LaPlaca writes the playbook.
Most goalie programs compensate downstream — more technique, more conditioning. CGG addresses the issue at the source. Dr. LaPlaca and his team make this level of precision possible.
Not opinion — applied science. Decades of visual-cognitive research, distilled into one coachable framework. Rigorous, measurable, and trainable for every athlete.
Dr. Joseph LaPlaca, sports optometrist and founder of Ares Elite Sports Vision. He administers the evaluation, designs the visual-cognitive training programming, and runs AESV's concussion testing. Ongoing training — in-office, on-site for partner organizations, and tele-training — is delivered by Dr. LaPlaca and the AESV team.
In person at the AESV Carmel office — about 60–75 minutes. A real baseline requires an AESV-certified sports optometrist, so it can't be done remotely. Out-of-area families make one trip to establish it, then get set up to train at home. Training can be remote; the evaluation can't.
The baseline is a one-time setup that persists for your goalie's career. Dr. LaPlaca may recommend periodic retesting based on training response — a conversation between your family and AESV.
Your goalie's evaluation data is HIPAA-protected and stays with AESV. CGG receives the report only after you verify access. Dr. LaPlaca shares it with Cam at your direction so it can inform your goalie's coaching plan. It is not shared beyond CGG.
The evaluation is a performance baseline, not a diagnosis or treatment. As a built-in benefit, it produces a comprehensive picture of your goalie's visual-cognitive systems. Dr. LaPlaca's concussion testing makes the baseline clinically meaningful — medical professionals can reference it when diagnosing, recovering, or clearing return-to-play after a head injury. If a head injury occurs, share the report with your medical team.
You can buy the equipment. You can't buy the system. Dr. LaPlaca built a proprietary progressive overload framework — including the A.R.E.S. Performance Suite — that determines which drills your goalie does, in what doses, in what sequence, and when to progress. The exercises are the easy part. The dosing, sequencing, and training adaptations are the science. That's what AESV owns. That's what makes the training work.
About 45 minutes a session. On the at-home plan, that's eight a month — four guided, four on your own — so a couple sessions a week. Consistency is what compounds the gains.
Most goalies notice sharper reads within about 8 weeks of consistent training. Dr. LaPlaca tracks the data, so you can see the progress — not just feel it.
A mounted vision-training touchboard, a Meta VR headset, Senaptec strobe glasses, and accessories — all yours to keep. The A.R.E.S. Performance Suite and its guided drills come with your training while you're enrolled.
There's no age gate — Vision Training is optional for any CGG goalie whose family wants the edge. Dr. LaPlaca tailors the evaluation and the training to your goalie's age and stage.
Past vision work is useful context — bring it to the consultation. But the AESV system is unique, and CGG coaches inside it. The proper set-up process — Dr. LaPlaca's evaluation, the report, the gaps — is what makes the framework work. There's no shortcut.
No — the A.R.E.S. system trains any athlete's visual-cognitive skills, and the at-home setup can serve the whole family. Cam specializes in hockey goalies and players; athletes in other sports work directly with Dr. LaPlaca and the AESV team.
$449, a one-time set-up fee, paid directly to AESV. It doubles as a concussion baseline — if your goalie ever takes a hit, Dr. LaPlaca can re-evaluate and oversee their return-to-play progression.
The $399/mo training is month-to-month — cancel anytime. The evaluation and the at-home setup are each one-time.
Everything you've purchased is yours to keep — the Meta VR headset with all its programs, and the rest of your at-home tech. The monthly covers your guided training, access to the A.R.E.S. Performance Suite, and new training plans as they're added.
Yes — the at-home setup is a family investment, and multiple members can train on it. Each athlete needs their own AESV evaluation first, since the training is calibrated to their baseline.
Give your goalie the edge. It starts with the AESV evaluation — from there, every rep is built on their data.
