In skill learning and
observing the 3 R’s are essential. The 3 R’s are Routine, Repetition and Refinement. Establish a routine, a
pattern a set time and place to work on the skill. Repeat the skill and then refine
your adaptation of the technical model. The later is important because to often
in teaching new skills coaches use a robotic paint by numbers approach that
results in mechanical movement. Remember the goal is to give the athlete the
ability with the new skill to more effectively and solve movement problems that
fall in the domain of that skill. Go from
stable predictable activities to unstable, random and chaotic activities. Skillful athletes are not mechanical, they are rhythmic and flowing. Maybe that
can’t be taught but it can be encouraged. Design progressions that encourage problem solving and creativity. Allow the athletes to express themselves, encourage them to explore the parameters of the skill, find new ways.
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Jonathan Hewitt
Vern,
The problem I run into frequently is athletes thinking too much about the movement. I will give them a movement problem to solve with the instructions to “just do it” but they always default to thinking and walking through it to break it down. Ultimately they ask, “Is this right?”
Any advice or tips?
Jonathan