POINT FORM SUMMARY

Learning Sports Procedures

Mastery

Filter: one snapshot picture immediately gives you all information required.
example: Wayne Gretsky: circling goal net so back is to play. As soon as looks back towards play, he has an     immediate snapshot picture of the play and says “too many men on the ice” to the referee. After counting, the referee blows the whistle.

Motor response: one cue from STM initiates a large integrated network/chunk of motor responses

· net feeling: may feel like “slow motion”

Intermediate/Expert

Filter: more than 1 picture required + memory space for their integration

Motor response: more than 1 motor response required to get the task done + memory space for their integration

· net feeling: may feel like you’re “scrambling” to get the job done

Beginner

Nothing is integrated, so chaos results

Natural styles evolve with mastery:

Natural Style (Default Mode):

Is defined in many ways, like cruise control, automatic mode, flow

proactive

• decide what to do and then do it
• more cognitive (with brain)
• more control over zen-like state

reactive

• reacting to course situations
• less cognitive
• more direct spinal and kinetic

Panic (Rescue) Response:

• Natural style is default style, while panic response kicks in when things go wrong and panic. Do not confuse with reactive style where react to course with no panic.

• Dealing with a panic response is pre-planned and rehearsed. You create a “when shit happens” retrieval cue list. A retrieval cue is an environmental stimulus control. Learn and rehearse specific responses with reactions along with explicit retrieval cues together with environmental cues.

Have a list for

• saves. (These are premeditated techniques that can get you back on track.)
• learn how to fall, where to fall. (If all else fails, then have to fall. Learn to fall properly.)

Previous Natural Style (Previous Default Mode):

• Old style from earlier can interfere with new style (see interference)

1. New athletic skill
       Use physiological viewpoint to decide what new skill is and how to do it.
       (physics → physiology → psychology)
2. Retrieval cue for new athletic skill
3. Integrate new skill into natural style
       (think of 2+ things simultaneously → integration of skills into automatic style)
4. Retrieval cue(s) for new natural style

Normal Training: Do the following in sequence:

1. Visualize performance of skill using imagery
2. Focus on its execution as you actually perform it.
3. Practice doing the skill without analysis.
4. Experience the feeling of flow.
5. Associate this feeling with a trigger word (retrieval cue) in your mind