Everything starts at the top. Assistant coaches and athletes will mimic the head coach’s (HC) attitude, work ethic, commitment,...

Inputs and outputs. Both are critical to performance. The energetic cost of swimming is tightly related to velocity, with velocity being...

Stabilization Having acquired the desired technical skills, it’s time to make sure those skills are robust enough to hold up under the...

Channeling Skills During the first stage of the skill acquisition process, a large amount of variability was introduced. At this point,...

Destabilization As described in the introductory article, facilitating technical change is best effected through a 3-step process where...