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??