GLAZIER, P. and DAVIDS, K. (2009). Optimization of performance in top-level athletes: an action-focused coping approach. International journal of sports science and coaching, 4 (1), 59-62.
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In their target article, Yuri Hanin and Muza Hanina outlined a novel multidisciplinary approach to performance optimisation for sport psychologists called the Identification-Control-Correction (ICC) programme. According to the authors, this empirically-verified, psycho-pedagogical strategy is designed to improve the quality of coaching and consistency of performance in highly skilled athletes and involves a number of steps including: (i)identifying and increasing self-awareness of ‘optimal’ and ‘non-optimal’ movement patterns for individual athletes; (ii) learning to deliberately control the process of task execution; and (iii), correcting habitual and random errors and managing radical changes of movement patterns. Although no specific examples were provided, the ICC programme has apparently been successful in enhancing the performance of Olympic-level athletes.
In this commentary, we address what we consider to be some important issues arising from the target article. We specifically focus attention on the contentious topic of optimization in neurobiological movement systems, the role of constraints in shaping emergent movement patterns and the functional role of movement variability in producing stable performance outcomes. In our view, the target article and, indeed, the proposed ICC programme, would benefit from a dynamical systems theoretical backdrop rather than the cognitive scientific approach that appears to be advocated. Although Hanin and Hanina made reference to, and attempted to integrate, constructs typically associated with dynamical systems theoretical accounts of motor control and learning (e.g., Bernstein’s problem, movement variability, etc.), these ideas required more detailed elaboration, which we provide in this commentaryItem Type: | Article |
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Research Institute, Centre or Group - Does NOT include content added after October 2018: | Centre for Sports Engineering Research |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1260/1747-9541.4.1.47 |
Page Range: | 59-62 |
Depositing User: | Carole Harris |
Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2010 15:36 |
Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2021 01:00 |
URI: | https://shura.shu.ac.uk/id/eprint/2305 |
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