Using Rowers’ Perceptions of On-Water Stroke Success  to Evaluate Sculling Catch Efficiency Variables via a Boat Instrumentation System

Millar, Sarah-Kate; Oldham, Anthony R.H.; Hume, Patria; Renshaw, Ian

doi:10.3390/sports3040335

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“…A recent study carried out on the sport field selected rowing as a setting to describe how athletes experienced their activity and the accuracy of their awareness ( Millar et al, 2015 ). While the study investigated coordination phenomena only at an intrapersonal scale, it gave insights into the role of the online lived experience of actors in regulating their action and perception dynamics.…”

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Joint Action of a Pair of Rowers in a Race: Shared Experiences of Effectiveness Are Shaped by Interpersonal Mechanical States

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The purpose of this study was to understand how a single pair of expert individual rowers experienced their crew functioning in natural conditions when asked to practice a joint movement for the first time. To fulfill this objective, we conducted a field study of interpersonal coordination that combined phenomenological and mechanical data from a coxless pair activity, to analyze the dynamics of the (inter)subjective experience compared with the dynamics of the team coordination. Using an enactivist approach to social couplings, these heterogeneous data were combined to explore the salience (and accuracy) of individuals’ shared experiences of their joint action. First, we determined how each rower experienced the continuous crew functioning states (e.g., feelings of the boat’s glide). Second, the phenomenological data helped us to build several categories of oar strokes (i.e., cycles), experienced by the rowers as either detrimentally or effectively performed strokes. Third, the mechanical signatures that correlated with each phenomenological category were tracked at various level of organization (i.e., individual-, interpersonal-, and boat-levels). The results indicated that (a) the two rowers did not pay attention to their joint action during most of the cycles, (b) some cycles were simultaneously lived as a salient, meaningful experience of either a detrimental (n = 15 cycles) or an effective (n = 18 cycles) joint action, and (c) the mechanical signatures diverged across the delineated phenomenological categories, suggesting that the way in which the cycles were experienced emerged from the variance in some mechanical parameters (i.e., differences in peak force level and mean force). Notably, the mechanical measures that helped to explain differences within the phenomenological categories were found at the interpersonal level of analysis, thus suggesting an intentional inter-personal mode of regulation of their joint action. This result is further challenged and discussed in light of extra-personal regulation processes that might concurrently explain why participants did not make an extensive salient experience of their joint action. We conclude that attempts to combine phenomenological and mechanical data should be pursued to continue the research on how individuals regulate the effectiveness of their joint actions’ dynamics.

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“…Guide questions for the semi-structured interviews were developed based on similar research. 4,16 Questions incorporated the common components of the cut–roundhouse kicking combination relative to the skill level of athletes, as well as differences in skill levels (Appendix A).…”

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“…This is exemplified in coach comments referring to the 'look and feel' of performance. 16 Gaps in thinking between coaches and sport scientists are captured by the work of Waters et al 17 as well as Williams and Kendall. 18 Waters et al found that biomechanists used mechanistic terminology to describe the phases of sprinting, while coaches focused more on easily observable concepts.…”

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“…22 While some research was found on the experiential knowledge of expert coaches and athletes reinforcing theoretical knowledge, 4,6,15,23 only a few were found where coaches' knowledge was used to guide ensuing research questions. 16,22 Having coach input into research questions will increase likelihood of adoption of the findings by coaches. 24,25 Some consideration also needs to be given to the data collection procedures.…”

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Experiential knowledge of expert coaches on the critical performance factors of the taekwondo roundhouse kick

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Oldham

Lorimer

et al. 2022

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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The primary aim of this study was to capture expert taekwondo coaches’ experiential knowledge regarding critical factors that underpin the roundhouse kick. The secondary aim was to explore the coaching–biomechanics interface and translate the coaches’ knowledge into observable biomechanical variables for future investigation. The final aim was to elicit further expert knowledge to assess the usefulness of the resulting variables. Six higher themes emerged from interviews involving four coaches: (1) hip flexibility, (2) balance, (3) control/coordination, (4) distance, (5) footwork and (6) speed. These were supported by several sub-themes. The authors translated each theme and sub-themes into biomechanical variables: (1) front knee height, (2) support foot balance, (3) foot velocity, (4) interpersonal distance and (5) cut-kick transition speed. Two separate expert coaches appraised these variables in terms of understanding, importance, coachability and differences in expertise. In attempting to translate expert knowledge to biomechanical variables, we supported the need for a common conceptualisation of knowledge between scientists and coaches.

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“…This finding may be extended by research demonstrating expert rowers to accurately perceive and monitor their own catch efficiency, which was objectively reflected by changes in boat speed ( Millar et al, 2017 ). While to the authors’ knowledge, there has been no investigation to date into football players’ abilities to accurately self-monitor performances (under varying noise conditions), previous research commonly emphasizes “high-level performers as expert systems adept at detecting and evaluating change focussed on performance” ( Millar et al, 2015 , p. 3). Yet a special importance of these ecological factors and emotions so far has neither taken place in research, nor in the common training regimen of athletes.…”

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How did you perform? Investigating football players’ perception of self-regulated passing performances under auditory noise environments

Klatt,

Otte,

Beavan

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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IntroductionThis paper deals with the question on how sport performances may be influenced by internal, emotional processes, which stem from outside feedback.MethodsIn terms of methods, players’ subjective performance ratings for four experimental auditory cue conditions were examined; these included both ‘positive’ and ‘negative’ stadium noise, ‘no (auditory) conditions,’ and a control/‘baseline’ condition. This resulted in a qualitative-analytic data set that was obtained succeeding each auditory cue condition using a unique football training machine (i.e., known as ‘Footbonaut’). Without having received any coaching/performance feedback, players were asked to rate and individually comment on their perceived performance ratings for each experimental auditory condition.ResultsFindings indicate stronger and more significant correlations between auditory conditions and subjective ratings compared to the non-auditory condition and its subjective rating. Furthermore, data provides initial insight into players’ emotional experiences during each of the practice conditions.DiscussionThese noteworthy findings on players’ abilities to accurately judge their performances based on selfmonitoring and intrinsic feedback are discussed from an Ecological Dynamics perspective, linked to a Nonlinear Pedagogy for coaching. Here, representative and affective learning designs for skill learning and performance preparation are presented. Finally, a hypothetical catalyst effect of auditory stadium noise on subjective performance rating is proposed.

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Using Rowers’ Perceptions of On-Water Stroke Success to Evaluate Sculling Catch Efficiency Variables via a Boat Instrumentation System

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

Joint Action of a Pair of Rowers in a Race: Shared Experiences of Effectiveness Are Shaped by Interpersonal Mechanical States

Joint Action of a Pair of Rowers in a Race: Shared Experiences of Effectiveness Are Shaped by Interpersonal Mechanical States

Experiential knowledge of expert coaches on the critical performance factors of the taekwondo roundhouse kick

How did you perform? Investigating football players’ perception of self-regulated passing performances under auditory noise environments

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