Motor performance in sport competition: constraints from beginner to expert performer

Authors
  • Ana Maria Pellegrini

    Departamento de Educação Física IB/UNESP Rio Claro SP

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Abstract
A set of constraints on the performance of motor skills is a determinant factor of success in many sport modalities that require from the athlete continuous adaptation to changes in the game context. Taking into account Newell’s model of organism (or performer), task and environmental constraints in the acquisition of motor skills (NEWELL, 1986), the focus of this study is the set of changes that take place in motor behavior from the beginner to the high level athlete. In specific, the focus is toward changes in sports settings in which the ball is the center of the game, responsible for the relationship among athletes of the same team as well as between opponents, as in volleyball. The ball, in its trajectory, carries on a set of constraints to the player’s behavior. To be able of imposing constraints on the opponent’s behavior is so important as to know how to deal with a ball sent to you by the opponent in an unpredictable trajectory.
Author Biography
  1. Ana Maria Pellegrini, Departamento de Educação Física IB/UNESP Rio Claro SP
    Graduada em Educação Física pela Universidade de São Paulo (1963), graduada em Pedagogia pela Universidade de São Paulo (1973), obteve o título de Master of Science(1979) e o de Doctor of Philosophy (1982) na University of Illinois, C-U, nos Estados Unidos. Obteve o Título de Livre Docente em Controle Motor pelo Instituto de Biociências da UNESP, Rio Claro (1989). Atualmente é Professora Titular do Departamento de Educação Física do IB/RC UNESP, atuando como docente no Curso de Graduação em Educação Física e colaboradora no Curso de Pos-Graduaçao em Ciências da Motricidade Humana. A produção acadêmica concentra-se no Desenvolvimento Humano, nas sub-áreas de Aprendizagem Motora, Desenvolvimento Motor e Controle Motor e dirigida a questões relativas às dificuldades de coordenação motora, e da escrita manual. Busca novas tecnologias assim como programas de intervenção no trato com crianças com dificuldades de coordenação motora. Recebeu o prêmio Jefferson Canfield da Sociedade Brasileira de Comportamento Motor pelo mérito científico e emblemática contribuição para o desenvolvimento da área de Comportamento Motor no Brasil. Currículo Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/2344252829933402
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Published
2009-10-08
Section
Critique
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