Select a sport of your choice and organize a sports coaching course for a group of beginners.

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Motor Learning and Control for Human Performance

Question 1 (12 marks)

– Select a sport of your choice and organize a sports coaching course for a group of beginners.

– Your coaching plan must include 6 key skills from your sport.

o E.g., Golf: chipping, pitching, iron half swing, iron full swing, wood full swing, and tee off

– Produce a coaching plan in table format including date, timing, warm-up, skills, cool down and distribution of practice.

o Note this should not be excessive in duration (per session or total length of course)

– The coaching plan aims to maximize learning efficiency. Therefore, you will need to carefully structure each session and implement motor learning and control concepts (e.g., contextual interference, motor program theory and schema, block or random practice, practice variability, etc).

– Write a justification (500 words +/- 10%) of why you have structure/distribute your coaching plan in this particular way.

– Use literature support and include a reference list in APA format.

Question 2 (14 marks)

– You are coaching a beginner tennis player

– You notice that he has a poor forehand technique.

– See the below technical issues identified with your player (red t-shirt below):

1. Elbow not straight when connecting with the ball

2. Bodyweight remained on the backfoot when should have been distributed to the front leg to create power when hitting the ball.

3. The racket is parallel to the body when connecting with the ball. This should be in front of the body to create a more powerful stroke and commence the follow-through.

4. A lack of trunk and pelvis rotation before hitting the ball.

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Task

– Present a short essay (700 words +/- 10%) highlighting coaching strategies that you could implement into practice to correct his issues, with practical examples.

– Use literature support and include a reference list in APA format.

The following points may help structure your essay (you do not have to follow this):

1. How to communicate and explain the issues to the athlete effectively?

2. How to manipulate/modify his body movement to hit the ball correctly?

3. Can you manipulate/modify the environment or equipment to digress the complexity of the skill being learnt?

4. If the skill/exercises are digressed (made easier), how can this be suitably progressed to challenge the athlete?

5. What communication/cueing/training methods could you use to enhance practice (e.g., verbal, non-verbal, visual imagery, mental training etc)

6. How frequently should you coach/intervene the athlete or allow them to practice?

7. Would implementing technology help the athlete progress more quickly?

8. Is there anything you can do to support the athlete in performing the skill consistently in different environments/situations?

Question 3 (14 marks)

– You are coaching a beginner basketball player how to perform a layup.

– Using Fitts & Posner’s 3-stage motor skill acquisition and Gentile’s 2-stage model develop a coaching strategy, with explanation and practical examples (1200 words +/- 10%).

– You must breakdown what you would do during each stage of the respective models.

– Use literature support and include a reference list in APA format.

The following training strategies may be useful to implement (you don’t have to follow this and can implement your own):

1. Gentile’s taxonomy

2. Part and whole practice

3. Motor program theory

4. Augmented feedback

5. Practice variability

6. Types of demonstration and instruction

7. Performance measurement and error

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