Movement Skill Acquisition for American Football—Using “Repetition without Repetition” to Enhance Movement Skill
Movement Skill Acquisition for American Football—Using “Repetition without Repetition” to Enhance Movement Skill
🚀 Article in 3 Sentences
- Starts by discussing some key ideas from skill acquisition and how they can shape the way coaches should design practice tasks to develop masterful movers
- Discusses the ideas behind rep w/o rep and some of the key concepts that underpin it
- Talks through how to implement rep w/o rep to improve ‘offensive agility’
🤝Impressions
Practical article that’s filled with some practice design nuggets. Shawn did a great job as usual in discussing repetition without repetition and it’s practical implications. There are some really nice descriptions of sometimes complex ideas.
👨🏫Who should read this?
Every American Football coach could take so much from engaging with this article. While it’s aimed at American Football the content could be applied by coaches of an sport. It’s great seeing ideas from other sports and trying to apply the principles then in your own sport.
🎾How Article will influence my coaching
- Think more about how I could make sure that the each individual is being sufficiently challenged during a session.
- More purposeful use of repetition without repetition in practices.
📃Takeaways for coaches
- Process of enhancing movement skill should not consist of rote-repetition but instead should be a problem solving process where the players are challenged to solve the same problem in different ways under varying conditions.
- Repetition without repetition can promote a search process where the athlete is constantly exploring and discovering more functional coordination solutions.
- Similar situations will offer different affordances to individuals depending on their own unique action capabilities. The ‘masterful’ mover will understand how they can exploit the strengths of their own ‘movement toolbox’.
- Rote repetitions of a task in a non-changing environment will significantly slow and hinder the acquisition of movement skill expertise.
- Failing to replicate the movement demands in practice will cause players to struggle to adapt under the host of constraints they will interact with during the game.
- By designing practice using constraint manipulation players will have chances to explore more activities that contain specifying information that they must learn to attune to and adapt their movements in conjunction with
- Coaches must analyse how players are interacting with in-context problems to identify potential weaknesses and gaps within their movement behaviour repertoire. Coaches can then manipulate constraints to create similar problems for the players to interact with in practice that are representative and expose to athletes to game like situations.
- Practices in more representative environments are messier and contain more mistakes. This needs to be reframed as positive for learning. The goal isn’t achieving one ideal solution but to be able to solve emerging problems in their own unique way under everchanging conditions. The athletes will often becoming in and out of their comfort zones and progressively pushed further into learning zone
- Training in a repetitive way can actually hinder the development of dexterity. When the time comes to display under more game like conditions.
- Skill Acquisition isn’t about acquiring a skill, it’s about developing a more functional relationship between a dynamic environment that they are required to perform within.
- The manipulations of constraints should be carefully designed to carefully stretch the dexterity of a player’s movement tool box. Coaches need to be careful that the task is at an appropriate task difficulty match the skill level of the athlete.
- Acquisition of functional movement skills in sport can be improved through the use of a constraints-led approach for designing representative tasks to be carried out in a rep w/o rep fashion
- Using a CLA approach “will require an athlete to become more attuned to the specifying information in the environment, make accurate decisions in-line with their desired intentions more frequently, and to adapt their movement patterns to meet the needs of problem demands”
- The intended outcome of practice will be an improved perception-action coupling. An improved perception-action coupling will allow to players to become better problem solvers which will improve their movement skills/solutions on the field.
👇Requirements for designing practice activities using rep
- Start line and an intended movement target such as an end line. Boundaries on either side
- Change the size or shape of the playing area
- The behaviours or numbers of opponents they are facing
- Starting conditions or movement strategy of the athlete
- The field conditions that the athletes are playing in
🥇Top Quotes
💡 Instead, the construction of these functional movement solutions become characterized by having heightened perceptual attunement to the specifying sensory data that will direct one to the affordances for action within the problem
💡 Overall, the more masterful moving athlete, armed with perceptual attunement and these abundant options, will be able to intimately interact with the environment and sufficiently coordinate, control, and organize an adaptive movement solution which effectively solves the problems at-hand.
💡 Thus, the process of skill acquisition may be less about acquiring an entity of skill, but instead to enhance the more functional relationship between the athlete and the dynamic environment that they are required to perform within
💡 Through this type of learning design, athletes will more frequently encounter activities which contain the necessary specifying information that they must become attuned to and adapt their movement in conjunction with (i.e., thereby enhancing the likelihood of the emergence of functional information-movement/perception-action couplings
💡 A reality with training in a practice environment that looks, feels, and behaves more like game situations is that they are often “messier” and more mistake-filled, so some coaches feel apprehensive about their athletes’ resultant movement execution or outcomes.
💡 is important to note, the number, degree, and magnitude of the constraint manipulations should be strategically designed to “stretch” the dexterity of a player’s movement toolbox; however, care should be taken to ensure an appropriate matching of the demands of the problem to the skill level of the athlete.
💡 The acquisition of functional movement skills for football performance can be improved through the use of a constraints-led approach for designing representative tasks to be carried out in a “repetition without repetition” framework.
💡 This type of approach will require an athlete to become more attuned to the specifying information in the environment, make accurate decisions in-line with their desired intentions more frequently, and to adapt their movement patterns to meet the needs of problem demands
Reference
Myszka, S. H. A. W. N. (2018). Movement Skill Acquisition for American Football—Using “Repetition without Repetition” to Enhance Movement Skill. SPECIAL FOOTBALL ISSUE, 5(4), 76.
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