Perfect practice or pitch perfect: a story about performance & learning
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Nick Winkelman's presentation discusses the concepts of performance and learning in athletic contexts, emphasizing the negative impacts of anxiety and stress, or 'choking', on optimal performance. He highlights that effective learning involves both long-term retention and the ability to apply skills in competition, suggesting that external focus and variability in practice can enhance performance. The document presents strategies for minimizing conscious control during skill execution to improve outcomes in high-pressure situations.
Perfect practice or pitch perfect: a story about performance & learning
- 1. Performance & Learning Perfect Practice or Pitch Perfect Nick Winkelman, PhD | Head of Athletic Performance & Science, IRFU
- 3. Putting for the win
- 4. Presenting @ Huddle Dublin
- 5. Scoring a Try for the win
- 7. Jana Novotna Greg Norman NY Yankees
- 8. Choking
- 9. Choking Choking is suboptimal performance, It’s a result that is inferior to what you can do and have done in the past Beilock, 2010
- 10. Worrying When people worry about themselves & their performance, they tend to try to control their movement to ensure optimal performance Beilock, 2010
- 11. Learning
- 12. Learning relatively permanent changes in Motor behavior or knowledge that supports long- term retention and transfer to competition SoderstroM & Bjork, 2015
- 13. Performance temporary changes in motor behavior or knowledge that can be observed & measured during or immediately after the Practice SoderstroM & Bjork, 2015
- 14. (+ / -) Practice Performance (+ / -) Pitch Performance Positive Practice Performance Poor Pitch Performance Large % DIFF | ↑ Choking
- 15. (+ / -) Practice Performance (+ / -) Pitch Performance Positive Practice Performance Poor Pitch Performance Large % DIFF | ↓ Retention
- 16. (+ / -) Practice Performance (+ / -) Pitch Performance Positive Practice Performance Positive Pitch Performance small % DIFF | Performing
- 17. (+ / -) Practice Performance (+ / -) Pitch Performance Positive Practice Performance Positive Pitch Performance small % DIFF | Learning
- 18. Brain
- 19. DLPFC PMC SMC M1 Novice Expert 01: Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex (DLPFC) 02: Premotor Cortex (PMC) 03: Supplementary Motor Cortex (SMC) 04: Primary Motor Cortex (M1) “Focus On The Movement”
- 20. The Learning Brain of a Novice looks very similar to the Choking Brain of an Expert – the key – minimizing conscious focus on “movement steps” during skill execution Song, 2009 | Beilock, 2010 Consider how shifting your focus outward as opposed to inward could help your next big presentation or sales Pitch
- 21. Practice
- 22. Skill1Skill2Skill3 S 1 S 1 S 1 S 1 S 2 S 2 S 2 S 2 S 3 S 3 S 3 S 3 BLOCKED Serial Random
- 23. A progressive increase in contextual interference from blocked to random has been shown to be superior to blocked or random only. Porter et al., 2010
- 24. Lage et al., 2015
- 25. Skill Retrieval Drives learning. To strengthen retrieval we must first forget. Skill spacing & variability creates Desirable difficulty. Lage et al., 2015
- 26. Prepping for a big presentation or trying to learn a new skill? spacing out short & frequent bursts of practice is the key.
- 27. Focus
- 28. External Focus Explode Off The Ground Internal Focus Explode Through Your Hips External Focus Catch Ball at Highest Point Internal Focus Extend your arms as high as you can
- 29. Internal cues constrain the motor system by asking the person to focus on a Simple part at the expense of the complex whole. . External cues direct attention towards relevant movement features, allowing the body to self-organize a preferred movement solution. Wulf, 2013
- 30. External cues have been shown to inoculate choking & encourage an expert-like physiological state. Ong et al., 2010 | Neumann & Thomas, 2011
- 31. Choke by Sian Beilock Padraig Harrington has said, to hell with swing thoughts; he tries to keep his mind blank and think only of the ball’s flight path.
- 32. THANK YOU Nick.winkelman@IRFU.ie | @NickWinkelman