Factors Affecting Skill Development

Training can also be done mentally which where the player goes over the events in their head to be properly prepared.

- Applies the principles of training. It is important that information is given correctly in early stages of learning because if errors are not picked up early, the player will be greatly disadvantaged when someone spots it and try’s to fix it when they have executed the skill for years it may never be fixed.

Practice

The role of practice in the factors of skill acquisition is very important when you think how much time professional players spend perfecting the skills involved in their sport. For improvement to occur as a result of any training program, two important principles must be applied.

Positive transfer is taken place when say hitting a tennis ball over a line on the wall can benefit in a real game hitting over the net.

The Task

The individual but also the task itself does not only affect skill acquisition.

Training

The more specific the practice or training drills can be to the sport the more effective they will be in enhancing competitive sport performance. identified the following factors as being important.

The type of practice the coach teaches all depends on the levels of the players for example in basketball you could either

Dribbling one lesson

Lay-ups one lesson

Defence one lesson

or

Dribbling 10 mins

Lay-ups 10 mins

Defence 10 mins

Feedback

Practice alone does not automatically mean you learn a skill; the player must have feedback or be told about what needs to be done to learn something. 1)

The basis of an effective training program is a system which:

- Identifies needs. So this increases the normal skill because it is as close the real game as possible.

Application of Training Principles

Training results in physiological changes that will eventually enhance fitness and sporting performance.