The role of elite coaches’ expertise in identifying key constraints on long jump performance: how practice task designs can enhance athlete self-regulation in competition

McCosker, Chris; Renshaw, Ian; Russell, Scott; Polman, Remco; Davids, Keith

doi:10.1080/2159676x.2019.1687582

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“…However, this has often been treated as the sole knowledge source that sport scientists need for designing practice environments, ignoring the experiential knowledge accrued by expert sports practitioners gained from years of experience working with athletes and teams in rich and varied landscapes. Experiential understanding should be treated as a rich knowledge source that, if used in a complementary way with empirical research, can guide the successful integration of performance preparation models in sport [24,27,28]. Others (e.g.…”

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Theory to Practice: Performance Preparation Models in Contemporary High-Level Sport Guided by an Ecological Dynamics Framework

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A fundamental challenge for practitioners in high-level sporting environments concerns how to support athletes in adapting behaviours to solve emergent problems during competitive performance. Guided by an ecological dynamics framework, the design and integration of competitive performance preparation models that place athlete-environment interactions at the heart of the learning process may address this challenge. This ecological conceptualisation of performance preparation signifies a shift in a coach's role; evolving from a consistent solution provider to a learning environment designer who fosters local athlete-environment interactions. However, despite the past decades of research within the ecological dynamics framework developing an evidence-based, theoretical conceptualisation of skill acquisition, expertise and talent development, an ongoing challenge resides within its practical integration into sporting environments. This article provides two case examples in which high-level sports organisations have utilised an ecological dynamics framework for performance preparation in Australian football and Association Football. A unique perspective is offered on experiences of professional sport organisations attempting to challenge traditional ideologies for athlete performance preparation by progressing the theoretical application of ecological dynamics. These case examples intend to promote the sharing of methodological ideas to improve athlete development, affording opportunities for practitioners and applied scientists to accept, reject or adapt the approaches presented here to suit their specific ecosystems.

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“…Ecological dynamics draws upon many rich frameworks and guidelines for collecting and analysing data on human behaviours and experiences, using qualitative and quantitative methodologies (e.g. see Araujo et al, 2019;McCosker et al, 2019). Here, we provide a case that a qualitative grounded theory approach provides a methodological framework to consider "human experience holistically, contextually and as a dynamic process" (Demuth, 2015, p. 210).…”

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“…In this way, Shaw (1982) underlined the deeply entwined relations between actions, cognitions and perception in human behaviour. Due to this entanglement, there is a continued need for investigations on how intentions specify attention to support decision-making actions in performance environments (for some existing examples on sport performance see Connor et al, 2018;McCosker et al, 2019). An issue for researchers is that psychological attributes such as emotions, beliefs and intentions of performers are inherently subjective and qualitative, "making it challenging for science to apply to cognition, the kinds of explanatory techniques that have worked so successfully in studying other natural dynamical systems" (Araújo et al, 2019, p. 538).…”

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Sport arbitration as an emergent process in a complex system: Decision-making variability is a marker of expertise in national-level football referees

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2020

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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This study examined the experiential knowledge of eight Australian national-level football referees (3.2 yrs mean national-level experience) about the notion of consistent decisionmaking during competitive matches. Using a grounded theory approach, the analysis revealed that participants view 'consistency' as context-dependent, rather than a rigid process of uniformly responding to isolated foul-play transgressions with putatively correct responses.Our results present two key conceptual abstractions -'referential and game dependent' and 'purpose and context'as a framework for understanding referee decision-making consistency. Data indicated that these performance intentions for consistency directed referee attention (attunement) to key contextual information that is necessary to prospectively control player behaviours and thus, the emergent trajectory of each game. Results support the view that consistent decision-making performance is an emergent process defined by the decisionmaking actions of the referee, and exploitation of specifying contextual game factors. Our discussion outlines how this process can be understood as dynamical transactions within a complex system (i.e. competitive football game), in which varying decision-making responses to superficially similar incidents is a marker of expertise, rather than inconsistency. These findings draw attention to the limitations of isolated foul-play video assessment for training and advocate for more representative game opportunities for referees to practice making decisions with key contextual information sources present. Future research could explore how significantly specific performance goals and contextual factors interact to shape emergent decision-making choices across different sports.

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“…Researchers with an interest in motor learning and development as well as skill acquisition have increasingly sought to make use of knowledge sourced from empirical research, as well as from the experiences of high-performance practitioners (termed experiential knowledge) to understand how to create the best learning and talent development environments in sport (e.g., see Burnie et al, 2018;Pocock et al, 2020;McCosker et al, 2020;Stone et al, 2020;Woods et al, 2020a;Woods et al, 2020b). This re-balancing of the relationship between experiential and empirical knowledge has emerged because the rationale for evidence-based practice in motor learning and skill acquisition has been skewed towards a limited categorisation of knowledge viewed as influencing practice (Rothwell et al, 2020).…”

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Exploring Coach Perceptions of Parkour-Style Training for Athlete Learning and Development in Team Sports

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Journal of Motor Learning and Development

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Contemporary learning and development models have identified parkour-style training as a vehicle for athlete enrichment. However, perceptions of team-sport coaches and their receptiveness to such models of athlete enrichment have not been investigated and remain unclear. To explore how parkour-style training could be integrated into athlete development programs in team sports, we interviewed sport practitioners to explore their preexisting knowledge of parkour and their perceptions on its potential applications. Experienced talent development (n = 10) and strength and conditioning coaches (n = 10) were interviewed using an open-ended, semistructured approach with a two-stage thematic analysis being conducted to identify themes. Three dimensions were identified: coaches’ general perceptions of parkour, potential applications of parkour, and feasibility of integrating parkour into athlete development programs. Participant perceptions revealed that: (a) parkour activities were viewed as supplementary activities to enrich sport-specific training routines, including use of obstacle courses and/or tag elements; (b) parkour-style obstacle environments needed to be scalable to allow individual athletes and coaches to manipulate object orientation and tasks using soft play and traditional gym equipment; and (c) the implementation of continued professional development opportunities, athlete-centered approaches to learning designs in sport, and coach–parent forums were recommended to support the integration of parkour-style training.

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The role of elite coaches’ expertise in identifying key constraints on long jump performance: how practice task designs can enhance athlete self-regulation in competition

Abstract: The role of elite coaches' expertise in identifying key constraints on long jump performance: how practice task designs can enhance athlete self-regulation in competition. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 1-17.

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

Theory to Practice: Performance Preparation Models in Contemporary High-Level Sport Guided by an Ecological Dynamics Framework

Theory to Practice: Performance Preparation Models in Contemporary High-Level Sport Guided by an Ecological Dynamics Framework

Sport arbitration as an emergent process in a complex system: Decision-making variability is a marker of expertise in national-level football referees

Exploring Coach Perceptions of Parkour-Style Training for Athlete Learning and Development in Team Sports

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