HARD SKILLS - JEFF MOYER
– Hard skills are the optimal mechanics in an ideal situation/foundation
- It is where the key movements are mastered within the motor skill
- Your first reps are like sled tracks in the snow and with subsequent tries, your sled will follow those grooves
- Hard skill key movements are the force producing actions for example the paw back, ankle extension and knee drive actions in sprinting
- Hard skill secondary movements help to transmit and stabilise the motor skill and shore up energy leaks of the key movements such as arm action, coordination etc
- Don’t allow errors in training as hard skills are hard to break leading to harder to break bad habits
- You need a top down approach where the athlete has to actually think about it to correct it then the error has to move from unconscious-incompetent to conscious-incompetent and then all the way to unconscious-competent
- You need to determine why the error is happening (poor technical learning, technical application, physical limitations etc)
- Soft skills are how skills are incorporated into a task and environmental situations
- It's also where you create a breadth of movement to learn how to adapt to the various changing conditions of training/competition
- Is built by playing and exploring inside challenging, ever-changing movements where you encounter different obstacles and respond to them over and over building a network of sensitive wiring you need to read, recognise and react
- Perception and action
- Repetition without repetition
- How you sprint, jump and change direction will vary based on arousal/speed of movement/fatigue/goals/task
- However variability within a motor skill’s key movements should not vary much here and is pretty much a positional difference of where you start/finish executing the skill from
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