Cognitive Processes Involved in the Motor Control of Basketball

Pablo Camacho Lazarraga*

Received: August 20, 2018;   Published: September 05, 2018

DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2018.08.001690

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Abstract

Is There an Ideal Execution Model in Basketball Individual Skills?

Highly skilled players execute motor skills in a variety of ways, and in many cases different from those described in the technical manuals. However, its execution is characterized in all cases by having a very high degree of effectiveness. What is the reason? Is there then more than one ideal model of movement? A more in-depth analysis of the techniques used would lead us to conclude that in the technical execution of all experts there are a few common, basic and fundamental elements. That is why we must determine those aspects that must always be carried out in the same way. We will call these elements key elements. Once these elements are detected, the practice activities must, through repetition, ensure their automation. The rest of the practice conditions must be very varied, in order to facilitate the possibility of adapting it to different contexts, that is, we must enhance the variability around the stable and repetitive execution of a series of fundamental aspects. The perfection of the automatism does not reside in the invariable linkage of the muscular actions, but, on the contrary, in its possibilities of reorganization in all the instants of the execution and in the course of the successive executions.

Keywords: Cognitive Processes; Motor Control; Basketball; Skill; Performance

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