taper and skill acquisition shannon rollason ais swimming head coach
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Taper and Skill AcquisitionShannon Rollason
AIS Swimming Head Coach
Jodie & Alice
Left: Jodie Henry after winning Gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics Games in the 100m Fresstyle.
Above: Alice Mills and Jodie Henry after finishing 1-2 in 100m Freestyle at the 2005 World Championship Trials.
Maximizing Skill Acquisition in
Swimming Dr. Damian Farrow
Skill AcquisitionAustralian Institute of Sport
Outline
• What is skill?
• Coaching / Instructional Issues
– Learning styles
– Instructions and Feedback
– Implicit learning
• Maximising the effectiveness of skill practice
– Practice organisation & structure
– Constraints Coaching
Skill = Technique + Pressure
Hooking & Triggering Learning
– Learning Preference• The style in which an athlete
prefers to receive their instructional information
• If an athletes individual preference is catered to it individualises instruction & enhances achievement
• Most valuable for introduction of new information
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Coach & Athlete Interactions
Modality Visual Aural Read/Write Kinesthetic
Visual
Aural
Read/Write
Kinesthetic
Coach
Athlete
VISUAL
AURAL
READ/WRITE
KINESTHETIC
Demonstration
– What Does The Observer Perceive?
– Relative Motion
– Is it valuable to show frame by frame analysis in slow motion??
