WHOLE VS PART SKILL PRACTICE -Motor Learning for Coaches

• 1:28 - Andy’s primary focus of study, and what he has his PhD in.
  • What he does for the Pittsburgh Pirates
  • Motor Learning + Sports Psychology
• 2:45 - What is part vs. whole practice?
  • Interconnected technique and skills
  • Breaking down the parts of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony
  • Connecting sports and musical analogies
• 7:06 - If you mess up the first part, can you continue with the rest of the parts?
• 8:20 - How to emphasize certain skill areas without making whole practice too overwhelming for the athlete.
• 12:20 - Will part practice actually help you improve, or does it have a placebo effect on the athlete?
  • Ineffective simulations for volleyball drills in young ages
• 17:18 - How to implement whole practice into our warmups.
• 21:01 - Are the different parts of motor learning connected, and if they are, how are they connected?
  • Some gray areas in between
  • Some aspects to take from each part
  • From an academic standpoint, it’s hard to mix
  • Trial and erroring + measuring the effects in practices to find the best approach
• 29:03 - Summary of the topics discussed.

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