Sunday 28 November 2010

How To Apply Your of Problem Solving Skills In Sport


Problem solving is a fantastic skill to have. It is also an invaluable quality to have when playing sport as it means you are able to anticipate situations well and know the correct action to take. Learning in a sport is also about understanding play. To improve you must be placed in the correct conditions. So here are  two main phenomenas that could help you heighten your problem solving skills:


Re-creation

When you are out practising during training session you should re-create situations in a drill or game to help you figure out how you can do better. For example when you aim to dribble the football past a defender and into the space behind and the defender intercepts the ball you need to create this situation again. Firstly because you have lost the ball it indicates you need to control better and keep the ball closer to your feet. Thus you need to LEARN and UNDERSTAND what you did incorrectly. But DO NOT PRACTICE what you did incorrectly as this can encourage bad habits. Nevertheless, by setting up the same occurrence over and over again it could train your thinking to better anticipate the movement the defender attempts to make in this instance and how you can proceed forward with the ball to avoid losing the ball.


Be Your Own Teacher

Sometimes the your best teacher is yourself. There are certain things you learn that can only be taught by you putting a large amounts of dedication, time and effort into the task. For instance a gymnast that aims to perfect his or her specific movement requires them to work out how to position their body comfortably enough to execute the movement as perfectly as possible. This requires trial and error to master the skill and teaching yourself to adapt a movement when the performance of a sequence goes wrong. When there are a series of  errors there is an opportunity to discover a new technique that you would not have used in other circumstances and work out when it is necessary to apply it.

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