Motor Learning in Practice

"Motor Learning in Practice" explores the fundamental processes of motor learning and skill acquisition in sport, and explains how a constraints-led approach can be used to design more effective learning environments for sports practice and performance. Drawing on ecological psychology, the book examines the interaction of personal, environmental and task-specific constraints in the development of motor skills, and then demonstrates how an understanding of those constraints can be applied in a wide range of specific sports and physical activities. The first section of the book contains two chapters that offer an overview of the key theoretical concepts that underpin the constraints-led approach. These chapters also examine the development of fundamental movement skills in children, and survey the most important instructional strategies that can be used to develop motor skills in sport. The second section of the book contains eighteen chapters that apply these principles to specific sports, including basketball, football, boxing, athletics field events and swimming. This is the first book to apply the theory of a constraints-led approach to training and learning techniques in sport. Including contributions from many of the world's leading scholars in the field of motor learning and development, this book is essential reading for any advanced student, researcher or teacher with an interest in motor skills, sport psychology, sport pedagogy, coaching or physical education.

ISBN 0415478634   DEWEY edition DC22 ISBN13 9780415478632 (What's this?)   Pages 272 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Weight (grammes) 544 Imprint Routledge   Published in London Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 10 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 612.811   Academic level Postgraduate, Undergraduate

1		The constraints-based approach to motor learning: implications for a non-linear pedagogy in sport and physical education by Keith Davids		3
2		Instructions as constraints in motor skill acquisition by Karl M. Newell and Rajiv Ranganathan		17
3		Building the foundations: skill acquisition in children by Ian Renshaw		33
4		Perceptual training for basketball shooting by Raoul R. D. Oudejans and Johan M. Koedijker		47
5		Saving penalties, scoring penalties by Geert J. P. Savelsbergh and Olav Versloot and Rich Masters and John van der Kamp		57
6		Stochastic perturbations in athletics field events enhance skill acquisition by Wolfgang I. Schollhorn and Hendrik Beckmann and Daniel Janssen and Jurgen Drepper		69
7		Interacting constraints and inter-limb co-ordination in swimming by Ludovic Seifert and Chris Button and Tim Brazier		83
8		The changing face of practice for developing perception: action skill in cricket by Ross Pinder		99
9		The "nurdle to leg" and other ways of winning cricket matches by Ian Renshaw and Darren Holder		109
10		Manipulating tasks constraints to improve tactical knowledge and collective decision-making in rugby union by Pedro Passos and Duarte Araujo and Keith Davids and Rick Shuttleworth		120
11		The ecological dynamics of decision-making in sailing by Duarte Araujo and Luis Rocha and Keith Davids		131
12		Using constraints to enhance decision-making in team sports by Adam D. Gorman		144
13		Skill development in canoeing and kayaking: an individualised approach by Eric Brymer		152
14		A constraints-led approach to coaching association football: the role of perceptual information and the acquisition of co-ordination by Matt Dicks and Jia Yi Chow		161
15		Identifying constraints on children with movement difficulties: implications for pedagogues and clinicians by Keith Davids and Geert J. P. Savelsbergh and Motohide Miyahara		173
16		Augmenting golf practice through the manipulation of physical and informational constraints by Paul S. Glazier		187
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