Month: August 2021

365 – Article Review: Does More Representative Practice Design Lead to Better Transfer of Training?

365 Does more representative design lead to better transfer of training? Does it make athlete more adaptable and strategic in their play? What is the relationship between the CLA and representative design?Download link Articles:Enhancing skill transfer in tennis using representative learning design More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page (pdfs of my articles)My…

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364 – Article Review: The Role of Movement Variability in Movement Accuracy

364 How do skilled performers achieve both speed and accuracy? Is it by reducing variability in movement parameters (i.e., repeatability)? Or is by allowing movement parameters to co-vary and compensate for each other (i.e., motor synergies)?Download link Articles:Control of Accuracy during Movements of High Speed: Implications from Baseball Pitching More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy…

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363 – Article Review: Choosing the Optimal Task Difficulty for Training

363 How well calibrated is our perception of task difficulty? To what degree can athletes assess whether the difficulty of a practice task is optimal for motor learning?Download link Articles:Choosing an optimal motor-task difficulty is not trivial: The influence of age and expertiseMetacognition in motor learning More information:Subscribe in iOS/AppleSubscribe in Android/GoogleMy Research Gate Page…

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362 – Smart Perceptual Mechanisms & Training an Athlete to “See Through the Matrix”

362 What is a “smart” perceptual mechanism? How does it differ from the rote mechanisms used in information processing theory, where simple features are used for computation and processing? Are we missing opportunities to train the development of these smart perceptual mechanism in sports, forcing an athlete to see in terms of simple variables and…

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361 – Self Organization & Self-Regulation in Skill Acquisition: Clarifying Some Confusions

361 What is the role of the “self” in self organization? How does its pre-loaded conception lead to some misunderstanding about self-organization and misapplication of methods designed to promote it, like the CLA? How does it relate to self-regulation in skill acquisition? An attempt at some clarification.Download link Articles:Self-organisation and constraints in sports performanceSelf-regulated learning…

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