WHOLE VS PART SKILL PRACTICE -Motor Learning for Coaches

Coach Your Brains Out

  • 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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  • 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.

Read Billy's new book! The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion

Get Coach Your Brains Out the book! 

Support the show through Patreon

2022-03-31 30 min
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