Taper and Skill Acquisition Shannon Rollason AIS Swimming

Jodie & Alice Left: Jodie Henry after winning Gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics

Maximizing Skill Acquisition in Swimming Dr. Damian Farrow Skill Acquisition Australian Institute of Sport

Outline • What is skill? • Coaching / Instructional Issues – Learning styles –

Hooking & Triggering Learning – Learning Preference • The style in which an athlete

Coach & Athlete Interactions Coach Modality Athlete Visual Aural Read/Write Kinesthetic

Demonstration – What Does The Observer Perceive? – Relative Motion – Is it valuable

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Taper and Skill Acquisition Shannon Rollason AIS Swimming Head Coach

Jodie & Alice Left: Jodie Henry after winning Gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics Games in the 100 m Fresstyle. Above: Alice Mills and Jodie Henry after finishing 1 -2 in 100 m Freestyle at the 2005 World Championship Trials.

Maximizing Skill Acquisition in Swimming Dr. Damian Farrow Skill Acquisition Australian 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 http: //www. vark-learn. com/english/index. asp

Coach & Athlete Interactions Coach Modality Athlete Visual Aural Read/Write Kinesthetic

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