Training Agility, Foot Speed & Transfer

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With regard to the transfer of agility skills. Does it not depend on whether

its a change in the value of parameters that determine the outcome of a

skill as opposed to changing the actual parameters? For example, a short

throw and a medium throw may have the same movement parameters but vary in

value.e.g. more forceful muscle activation. On the other hand a long throw

may involve a different set of parameters and patterning, therefore

practising short throws would have little transfer to long throws? These are

my general thoughts and the example chosen is theoretical just to highlight

my somewhat vague ideas, I'm sure others on the list will elaborate if this

is wrong or inaccurate

I know Schmidt has done a lot of work in this area and has written a number

of books on motor learning and performance, unfortunately I don't have access

to them at the moment...

Regards

Steve Aspinall

2nd Yr Sport Rehab Undergrad