by Garrett | Mar 10, 2019 | Assessment
Formal athlete assessments tend to target a combination of physical abilities (e.g. maximum strength) and anthropometrics (e.g. morphology). More recently, they tend to include cognitive abilities (e.g. creativity) (Memmert 2011), psychological profiles (e.g....
by Garrett | Mar 10, 2019 | Assessment
Formal assessment in figure skating tends to be limited to test papers, competition protocol sheets that score skaters on the content and quality of performances, and from the occasional off-ice fitness tests. Coaches engage several forms of informal assessment as...
by Garrett | Mar 10, 2019 | Assessment
The Athlete Centered Skating Assessment blog series is composed several blogs that discuss our assessment process and features of the assessments. These blogs are an important part of the ACSkating assessment process and, accordingly, are required reading for parents...
by Garrett | Mar 7, 2019 | Science
The first blog in this series discussed different types of stages associated with sports including developmental and learning stages. Please review that blog before proceeding. This blog examines developmental stages more closely. This blog series came at the...
by Garrett | Feb 28, 2019 | Science
This blog series came at the request of a parent who asked us if there are any specific stages of development they should focus on different types of training. This first blog examines different types of stages associated with sports training. When discussing the...
