Guidance

• Mechanical guidance

  • Positives: Good for cognitive stage, develops correct kinesthesia, increases confidence
  • Negatives: Performer can become reliant on equipment, may not trust apparatus, bad at autonomous stage
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• Manual guidance

  • Positives: Helps develop correct kinesthesia, good for cognitive stage
  • Negatives: Performer may not trust coach, may feel uncomfortable with coach touching them, unhelpful at autonomous stage
• Visual guidance

  • Positives: Good at cognitive stage of learning, key points easily highlighted and seen, helps create mental picture, helps skill be broken down
  • Negatives: Coach may not be able to perform the perfect model of the skill, bad habits may form if incorrect demonstration, beginner may have information overload
• Verbal guidance

  • Positives: Good at autonomous stage, holds attention of performer
  • Negatives: May confuse or overcomplicate, reduces understanding of performer, could be inaccurate leading to incorrect skill development
• Manual guidance

  1. When a coach physically helps a performer with a skill

  2. eg. A coach adjusting a golfer's hands before hitting the ball
• Verbal guidance

  1. A coach using their voice to explain or describe an action

  2. eg. A coach explaining how to return a shot in Tennis
• Mechanical guidance

  1. Equipment or apparatus physically helps a performer through a skill

  2. eg. In trampolining, using a belt to assist their front somersault
• Visual guidance

  1. Demonstrations used to help form a mental image

  2. eg. A coach performs a cartwheel to a performer
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