Renshaw Ian - Motor learning in practice : a constraints-led approach

Motor Learning in Practice

Motor Learning in Practice explores the fundamental processes of motor learning and skill acquisition in sport, and explains how a constraints-led approach can be used to design more effective learning environments for sports practice and performance. Drawing on ecological psychology, the book examines the interaction of personal, environmental and task-specific constraints in the development of motor skills, and then demonstrates how an understanding of those constraints can be applied in a wide range of specific sports and physical activities.

The first part of the book contains three chapters that offer an overview of the key theoretical concepts that underpin the constraints-led approach. These chapters also examine the development of fundamental movement skills in children, and survey the most important instructional strategies that can be used to develop motor skills in sport. The second part of the book contains 17 chapters that apply these principles to specific sports, including basketball, soccer, boxing, athletics field events and swimming.

This is the first book to apply the theory of a constraints-led approach to training and learning techniques in sport. Including contributions from many of the worlds leading scholars in the field of motor learning and development, this book is essential reading for any advanced student, researcher or teacher with an interest in motor skills, sport psychology, sport pedagogy, coaching or physical education.

Ian Renshaw is Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Movement Studies at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Keith Davids is Professor of Motor Control and Head of the School of Human Movement Studies at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Geert J. P. Savelsbergh is Professor in the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences at VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and Visiting Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.

Motor Learning in Practice

A constraints-led approach

Edited by Ian Renshaw, Keith Davids and Geert J. P. Savelsbergh

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data
Motor learning in practice : a constraints-led approach / edited by Ian
Renshaw, Keith Davids and Geert J.P. Savelsbergh. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Motor learning. 2. Physical education and training. I. Renshaw, Ian. II.
Davids, K. (Keith), 1953- III. Savelsbergh, Geert J. P.
BF295.M68 2010
612.811dc22 2009040593

ISBN 0-203-88810-3 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN10: 0415478634 (hbk)

ISBN10: 0203888103 (ebk)

ISBN13: 9780-415478632 (hbk)

ISBN13: 9780-203888100 (ebk)

Ian Renshaw: This book is dedicated to my parents Ernie and Margaret Renshaw, my wife Alison, and children Hannah and Matthew.

Keith Davids: I dedicate this book to the continuing love and support of my mother Pearl Janette Davids.

Geert J. P. Savelsbergh: To all the kids that love sport, especially to my daughter Rocio Maria and son Cristian David Savelsbergh.