Athlete Centered Skating

External Focus of Attention part 06: The Imagery Gymnasium

External Focus of Attention part 06: The Imagery Gymnasium

This is the final blog in our 6-part series on external focus of attention and figure skating.  The previous blogs described differences between the way experts and beginners perform their skills.  Experts, for example, tend to perform more subconsciously, and tend to...
External Focus of Attention part 04: You Must be Choking

External Focus of Attention part 04: You Must be Choking

Our blog series on external focus of attention, a motor learning theory we consider foundational to Athlete Centered Skating, continues here in part 04.  In previous blogs we presented some difference between how experts and beginners perform skills, the difference...