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Sport Skill Instruction for Coaches

When giving athletes extrinsic feedback about their technical skills, you can either tell them what you saw (descriptive feedback) or tell them what you think they need to do based on what you saw (prescriptive feedback).

Fallproof!-2nd Edition

Learn how to complete multiple neck stretches with step-by-step instructions and images.

Vision and Goal-Directed Movement eBook

Throughout history, humans have sought ways to make work easier, more cost and resource efficient, and safer.

Fundamentals of Motor Behavior

It is sometimes helpful to isolate the role of individual senses to gain a better understanding of the extent to which they guide movement skills.

The Athlete's Clock

In athletes, stride rhythm is often coupled with breathing while running, walking, cycling, or rowing. This is called entrainment of ventilation and locomotion.

Motor Control in Everyday Actions eBook

How are constant error, variable error, and absolute error useful for understanding motor control?

Perceptual-Motor Activities for Children With Web Resource

Using jump ropes or tape on the floor, create a series of lines in a pattern similar to that of spokes on a wheel (see diagram). Place active learning cards (in any order) in each space between the lines.

Perceptual-Motor Activities for Children eBook With Web Resource

Do grapevine (crossover) steps from cone to cone. Along the way, touch each cone and say the letter shown on the card for that cone.

Biomechanics of Skeletal Muscles eBook

The �intrasarcomere� mechanisms, such as the actin�myosin interaction, are mentioned only in passing. It is assumed that the readers are familiar with these mechanisms from courses in muscle physiology.

Motor Learning and Performance 5th Edition With Web Study Guide

Because skills make up such a large part of human life, scientists and educators have been trying for centuries to understand the determinants of skills and the factors that affect their performance.

Articles and Links

	Cutting wood and missing putts How are constant error, variable error, and absolute error useful for understanding motor control?
	Explanation of the three-step decision training model The decision-training model has three steps and includes seven cognitive skills, seven cognitive triggers, and seven decision-training tools.
	Feedback plays many roles in movement production and control Learn more about various functions of feedback in movement control, such as how we can conceptualize these functions as acting before a movement, during a movement, and after a movement.