Tripp Hannah

It's already hard to tell the difference between a 90 mile per hour fastball and maybe an 80 mile per hour slider. That's 10 miles per hour but they're both coming fast. One's staying straight and one's breaking off in a whole different way. You gotta be able to read it. And I feel like especially with the red lenses, that red just pops. The laces of the ball. It makes it so much easier to just read the spin and helps me head for sure. I'm Caitlin Nelson. Welcome to the Altias for Everyone Podcast, Quick Conversations. Today's conversation is with Trip Hanna, a short stop from Uly, Florida, and one of the top ranked prospects in the class of 2026, with a perfect game grade of 10, placing him in the top 1% nationally in fastball velocity, infield arm strength, and speed. Trip is always looking for ways to sharpen his game. In this episode, he sits down to share how Altias Amber single use performance-centred contact lenses have transformed his pitch recognition at the plate. And how playing under the bright Florida sun on fields that often lack a batter's eye, Altias made it dramatically easier to visually pick out the ball against cluttered distracting backgrounds and turn that into real results. Let's get into it. Here's Trip. I'm Trip Hanna. I played baseball. I'm from Jacksonville, Florida. I've been playing since I was four, so 14 years now. And just always played at a high level my whole life. So it's basically my entire life at this point. Yeah. What got you into baseball? Did you just start when you were really little? Were really good at baseball? Yeah. My dad played in college. Okay. He played at Mercer and Embryrittle, which is a pretty good baseball school down here. So before you had Altias, before you'd ever tried Altias, had you ever thought about vision as a performance tool? Like not just seeing clearly, but seeing better than your competition? Honestly, no. And I was just kind of having issues where a lot of fields will have like, especially when you get up higher, they'll have batter's eye, which is a big, it's like a basically a big giant dark colored wall. Behind center field, so it'll, it'll, it'll make it much clearer to see the baseball coming. But especially in high school and a good bit of college fields, they don't have it. So, it got really tough, especially in the daytime, where it's bright out to trying, like contrast the ball from maybe trees or just the sky or whatever building in the back. And I actually have really good vision. I have a 2013 vision. I just, I was like, one or nothing else like what is wrong? Like what is wrong with my eyes? And then I was struggling bad. I couldn't see. I got to the point where I was just really struggling during the daytime. And I went to a doctor down in South Florida. And she recommended you guys, Altias, to try him out. And then also some regular contacts. And I tried glasses and I just, I don't know if it was, I don't know if it was working until I put it, I put them on it and I walked outside and I instantly knew like the white buildings weren't so white anymore. I get like, if there was a pole on the building, that was the same color. The contrast was so easy to see. It was like just instantly changed. And then I went out there the next day. Warming a game. And it was just so much better. Just right away. I didn't have to do anything. It's not hard to get them in or get them out. I think it's not easy. Have you ever worn contacts before? No. No, but I'm. I'm. Because why would you? Yeah, the first, the first time I went to put them in, I, I learned real quick is. It's not, it's not as easy as it looks, but I mean, I got it down pretty quick. Yeah. That's awesome. So you had instant results. Yeah, right away. That's amazing. For sure. I think it's a little bit because it's dark at six o'clock. And then you're. Starting at six thirty or seven o'clock. And it's fine. You can see. Because it's just dark back there. But like as the season goes on, we're playing the first half of these games. And it's. As bright as they can get out here and they're like. Buildings in the background that have glares and it's just. It is. It is hard to deal with. So I mean, it's like one of those looking fine books or you're trying to find. Or whatever. Yeah. So everybody's. For half of the game struggling to see that I'll just have a man. And then. It's perfectly fine. This is. Much better. Yeah. Especially when you're playing in Florida. It's the competition level is high. I mean, we're seeing. It's hard to. It's already hard to tell the difference between a 90 mile per hour fastball. And maybe. In 80 mile per hour slider. Yes. That's 10 miles per hour. But that they're both coming fast. And once. And once. One staying straight and one's breaking off the whole different way. You got to be able to read it. And I feel like especially with the red lenses, that red just pops the laces of the ball. It makes it. So much easier to just. Read the spin and. Helps me head for sure. That's awesome. Yeah, when. Alties was first being developed or with the technology behind it was first being developed. The focus was baseball. You got you got the sweet spot for Alties right there with those red laces. And so that's what I'm going to say. playing a team down in Miami, Stoeman Douglas. I mean, it's there where there are always one of the best teams in the country every single year. I love playing those teams. They're always wild and so much energy. It's those are my favorite teams to play. And first person and kid get the whole second and just looks at me. He goes, what the hell is wrong with your eyes? They're in contact. So it's like your eyes are so red. He just looked at me and I was like, this is funny. I'm probably gonna have to get used to this. Yeah, I go and don't worry about it. Yeah, I got used to it. And I've had some teammates ask me, I've actually had a few people talk to me or when I'll post them on Instagram or something. I'll get a couple messages. I've had a few people go out and buy some and get some on their own. But yeah, I mean, I just tell them it's like, it's like instant. Well, you're gonna notice a big change. Thank you for joining me today on the Altias Rev everyone podcast. Quick conversations. Visit our website at www.altiasvision.com for more information on Altias performance tinted single use contact lenses and to find an Altias practitioner near you. Altias is for everyone. From light sensitivity to sports performance, our vision is to get you seeing at your peak level. Once again, this is Caitlin Nelson. Join me next time for another quick conversation about the impact Altias lenses have on real lives. (upbeat music) (indistinct) So we have a whole category. Of course, you know, we have two tint. We have the amber lenses and the gray green lenses. Yeah. So we have a lot of people like in the migraine, concussion area tend to use the gray green, but that's not across the board. We have a wrestler and she wears the amber because she has chronic migraines. But it's definitely worth trying out. They also block 99% of blue light. So if you're at like, if you're in finals and you're on your computer a lot, if you don't need to see perfect color, then you could pop them in for that as well. And Nike Maxi was making tinted lenses, which was created by the people that created Altias with Nike and created those and then eventually created Altias. They were a monthly replacement. So you had to keep them clean for an entire month.