Motor Learning in Practice : a Constraints-Led Approach.

Explores the fundamental processes of motor learning and skill acquisition in sport. This book examines the interaction of personal, environmental and task-specific constraints in the development of motor skills, and demonstrates how an understanding of those constraints can be applied in a wide ran...

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Main Author: Renshaw, Ian
Other Authors: Davids, Keith, Savelsbergh, Geert J. P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I; 1 The constraints-based approach to motor learning: Implications for a non-linear pedagogy in sport and physical education; 2 Instructions as constraints in motor skill acquisition; 3 Building the foundations: Skill acquisition in children; Part II; 4 Perceptual training for basketball shooting; 5 Saving penalties, scoring penalties; 6 Stochastic perturbations in athletics field events enhance skill acquisition; 7 Interacting constraints and inter-limb co-ordination in swimming.
  • 8 The changing face of practice for developing perception: Action skill in cricket9 The "nurdle to leg" and other ways of winning cricket matches; 10 Manipulating tasks constraints to improve tactical knowledge and collective decision-making in rugby union; 11 The ecological dynamics of decision-making in sailing; 12 Using constraints to enhance decision-making in team sports; 13 Skill development in canoeing and kayaking: An individualised approach; 14 A con.