a one-sided experience, typically favoring the teacher; whereas too little fails to provide the needed structure for learning. Work with your students to discover the ideal balance between these extremes. As people look to improve in their sport, they tend to go through similar phases while learning to coordinate new movements. Tese phases are discontinuous. Students will experience steps forward and backward as they work in the direction of the outcome. Even “failures” are considered part of the learning process. With unfamiliar tasks, it’s common to exert energy thinking about the movements and watching them occur while practicing them, as well as engage in a fair amount of self-talk. Tis is the initial phase of motor skill development. For this reason, you should try to relate other activities that your students are familiar with, to diminish some of the uncertainty. If the students’ performance in a phase is jerky, uncertain, and timing is off, they may need more direct, body part-specific feedback and demonstrations. As learners move through this phase to the elementary phase of motor skill develop- ment, they tend to develop a better cognitive understanding of the movements and the timing. While they may have a better sense for what they need to do, they are still working on movement refinement. Tey are beginning to monitor their own feedback. As it relates to guiding practice and the timelines you can anticipate for acquisition of new skills, this second phase lasts longer than the first because snowboarding is made up of quick movements and includes a number of external variables (snow, traffic, slope pitch, etc.).
Lastly, movements will become automatic, without conscious thought. Tis stage is referred to as the mature phase of motor skills development. In this phase, students are able to perform movement in a variety of situations and environments. Because there is little conscious thought involved, they are freed to focus on tactical variations. Tis also is when emphasis can be placed on the aesthetic qualities of movements (style).
PHOTO 6.3: Instructors help students move through the phases of motor skill development by providing constructive feedback.
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