Guidance

Question 2

Evaluation of visual guidance

Answer 2

POSITIVE
-Effective for beginners
-Useful in explaining complex skills
-Demo can be replayed and slo-mo analysed
-Helps to form mental image if the skill
NEGATIVES
-Demo can be incorrect
-Demo can be too quick

Question 3

Verbal guidance

Answer 3

-The use of instructions that the performer can hear to aid learning

Question 4

Verbal guidance evaluation

Answer 4

POSITIVES
-Can be used during performance
-Useful for experts
-Can be quick
NEGATIVES
-Can be boring
-Ineffective for beginners
-Some skills can be too complex to describe verbally

Question 5

Manual guidance

Answer 5

-The use of physical support by the coach moving the performer into the correct position

Question 6

Manual guidance evaluation

Answer 6

POSITIVES
-Helps learner to develop kinasethetic feel for the skill
-Can build confidence
-Can reduce fear in dangerous situations
NEGATIVES
-Performer can become over-reliant on the coach for support
-Can give performers and unrealistic feel for the skill

Question 7

Mechanical guidance

Answer 7

-The use of equipment or technology to aid learning

Question 8

Mechanical guidance evaluation

Answer 8

POSITIVES
-Can build confidence
-Can reduce fear in dangerous situations
NEGATIVES
-Performer can become over-reliant on the equipment/ technology
-Can affect the timing and fluency of the skill
-Can give performers an unrealistic feeling of the skill
-Expensive and not available to everyone