Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs
Practitioners in a variety of sports seek unique ways to train athletes to better prepare them for competition. In this position paper, we argue that inclusion of psycho-perceptual-motor skills, from the fields of sport psychology and sport expertise, is crucial, but underutilized in the assessmen...
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| author | Müller, Sean van Rens, Fleur Brenton, John Morris-Binelli, Khaya Piggott, Ben Rosalie, Simon Bergin, Matthew |
| author_facet | Müller, Sean van Rens, Fleur Brenton, John Morris-Binelli, Khaya Piggott, Ben Rosalie, Simon Bergin, Matthew |
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| description | Practitioners in a variety of sports seek unique ways to train athletes to better prepare them for
competition. In this position paper, we argue that inclusion of psycho-perceptual-motor skills, from the
fields of sport psychology and sport expertise, is crucial, but underutilized in the assessment and training
of athletes. First, a brief introduction is provided as to why psycho-perceptual-motor skill is vital for
training athletes. Second, examples are discussed relating to key concepts. These include the following:
assessment of expertise discriminators such as visual anticipation under pressure contexts, incorporation
of sports analytics and performance analysis to aid reflection upon previous experiences of good
anticipation and coping with pressure, use of qualitative and quantitative measures to understand
processes underlying performance and learning, as well as design of representative tasks for assessment
and training anticipation under pressure contexts. Third, some recommendations are made to
practitioners of sports teams to assist them in taking advantage of psycho-perceptual-motor skill to better
prepare athletes for competition. Collectively, we hope this paper stimulates collaboration between
practitioners of sports teams and scientists to create a greater focus upon integrated sport psychology
and sport expertise in the training of athletes. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-757502019-06-18T01:58:33Z Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs Müller, Sean van Rens, Fleur Brenton, John Morris-Binelli, Khaya Piggott, Ben Rosalie, Simon Bergin, Matthew Practitioners in a variety of sports seek unique ways to train athletes to better prepare them for competition. In this position paper, we argue that inclusion of psycho-perceptual-motor skills, from the fields of sport psychology and sport expertise, is crucial, but underutilized in the assessment and training of athletes. First, a brief introduction is provided as to why psycho-perceptual-motor skill is vital for training athletes. Second, examples are discussed relating to key concepts. These include the following: assessment of expertise discriminators such as visual anticipation under pressure contexts, incorporation of sports analytics and performance analysis to aid reflection upon previous experiences of good anticipation and coping with pressure, use of qualitative and quantitative measures to understand processes underlying performance and learning, as well as design of representative tasks for assessment and training anticipation under pressure contexts. Third, some recommendations are made to practitioners of sports teams to assist them in taking advantage of psycho-perceptual-motor skill to better prepare athletes for competition. Collectively, we hope this paper stimulates collaboration between practitioners of sports teams and scientists to create a greater focus upon integrated sport psychology and sport expertise in the training of athletes. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75750 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Müller, Sean van Rens, Fleur Brenton, John Morris-Binelli, Khaya Piggott, Ben Rosalie, Simon Bergin, Matthew Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| title | Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| title_full | Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| title_fullStr | Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| title_short | Embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| title_sort | embedding of psycho-perceptual-motor skills can improve athlete assessment and training programs |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/75750 |