1. Taper and Skill Acquisition Shannon Rollason AIS Swimming Head Coach

2. Jodie & Alice Left: Jodie Henry after winning Gold at the 2004 Athens Olympics Games in the 100m Fresstyle. Above: Alice Mills and Jodie Henry after finishing 1-2 in 100m Freestyle at the 2005 World Championship Trials.

3. Maximizing Skill Acquisition in Swimming Dr. Damian Farrow Skill Acquisition Australian Institute of Sport

4. Outline What is skill? Coaching / Instructional Issues –Learning styles –Instructions and Feedback –Implicit learning Maximising the effectiveness of skill practice –Practice organisation & structure –Constraints Coaching

5. Skill = Technique + Pressure

6. Hooking & Triggering Learning –Learning Preference The style in which an athlete prefers to receive their instructional information If an athletes individual preference is catered to it individualises instruction & enhances achievement Most valuable for introduction of new information http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

7. Coach & Athlete Interactions ModalityVisualAuralRead/WriteKinesthetic Visual Aural Read/Write Kinesthetic Coach Athlete

8. VISUAL

10. AURAL

11. READ/WRITE

12. KINESTHETIC

14. Demonstration –What Does The Observer Perceive? –Relative Motion –Is it valuable to show frame by frame analysis in slow motion??