312 – Adding Variability, Execution Redundancy&“Essential Noise” to Practice with Equipment Modifications - a podcast by Rob Gray

A look at how modifying sports equipment (e.g., changing size, altering mass distribution or making more flexible) can enhance motor learning by adding variability and increasing movement execution redundancy.

 

Articles:

Equipment modification can enhance skill learning in young field hockey players

"Essential noise" - Enhancing variability of informational constraints benefits movement control: A comment on Waddington and Adams (2003)

Visual responses to changing size and to sideways motion for different directions of motion in depth: Linearization of visual responses

The Effect of Variability of Practice at Execution Redundancy Level in Skilled and Novice Basketball Players

Effects of manipulating ball type on youth footballers’ performance during small-sided games

 

Blog Post:

https://perceptionaction.com/simplification/

 

Bradman Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o6vTXgYdqA

More information:

http://perceptionaction.com/

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