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Action Capacity vs Skill: Expanding the Field of Affordances in Training

Rob Gray via YouTube

Overview

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The course explains the difference between action capacity and skill through affordance theory, then considers how load and variability in training may expand the actions available to an athlete. Baseball batting, weighted ball training, and long toss provide examples.

Syllabus

Intro
Overall Goal
Affordances & Design
Affordances & Information
Affordances & Effectivities
Affordance Scaling
An Opportunity
Action Capacity - My Definition
Example: Angular Velocity
Increasing the capacity of max angular velocity has the potential to improve the skill of baseball batting my increasing the number of affordances
Action Capacity & Affordances
Load and variability to promote change
Training Implications
Weighted Ball Training & Long Toss
A Better Way..
Key Takeaways
Last Point: Affordances Can be Negative

Taught by

Rob Gray

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