Wormhoudt / Savelsbergh / Teunissen The Athletic Skills Model

Optimizing talent development through adaptability and variation
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-78211-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

The Athletic Skills Model offers an alternative to dominant talent development theories in the form of holistic broad-based movement education, focusing on health and wellbeing. It places the emphasis on ‘physical intelligence’ – including attributes such as agility, flexibility and stability – through adaptable and varied training programmes, creating a skilled athlete before introducing sport-specialization.

The book begins by setting out the scientific underpinnings of the ASM before going on to offer practical guidance on the content of the programme, how to adapt and vary the programme, and on how to apply the approach to different age groups and sports. The ASM’s application in the youth development programme at AFC Ajax is explored in depth, before a future of talent development where an emphasis is placed on athletic, rather than sport-specific, expertise is imagined.

The Athletic Skills Model introduces an important and timely challenge to conventional wisdom in talent development and is fascinating reading for any upper-level student or researcher interested in youth development, skill acquisition, motor learning or sports coaching, and any coaches wanting to refresh their approach to talent development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wormhoudt, Rene

Wormhoudt, René

Savelsbergh, Geert

Savelsbergh, Geert J. P.

Teunissen, Jan Willem

Davids, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport, Sportwissenschaft: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The foundations of the Athletic Skills Model (ASM)

2. Talent development

3. Goal-directed motor learning: from theory to practice

4. Training adolescents

5. The content of the Athletic Skills programme

6. The coordinative elements of the Athetic Skills Model

7. The Athletic Skills Model in the field

8. Case study: The Athletic Skills Model applied to the youth development programme at Ajax football club

9. Case study: The Athletic Skills Track

10. The future of talent development in sport: no specialists, but athletes with a specialization

Über Autor(innen)

Rene Wormhoudt is a strength and conditioning coach and physiotherapist with the Dutch National Football Team

Geert Savelsbergh is a Professor in the Department of Human Movement Sciences at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jan Willem Teunissen is a Lecturer at the HAN University of Applied Sciences, Nijmegen, Netherlands

Keith Davids is Professor of Motor Learning in the Centre for Sports Engineering Research, Sheffield Hallam University, UK