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The Look-Away Effect
Care to share your thoughts? Send a message..."Keep your elbow up." "Bend your knees." "Watch your hand." These sound like solid coaching cues, but thirty years of motor learning research suggest instructions like these may be slowing your athletes down. In this episode of Coaching Research To Results, host Beth Barz unpacks the OPTIMAL theory of motor learning and what it reveals about attentional focus, feedback framing, and athlete autonomy in skill acquisition. If you coach any sport and want research-backed coaching cues that actually speed up learning, this episode belongs in your…
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