Timestamp

1:24 — Professional Background

4:11 — Challenge Point Framework

7:16 — Difference Between Performance and Learning

9:23 — Three Zones of Learning

16:05 — Skill Transfer

29:05 — Three Different Types of Practice

35:07 — Commonly Overlooked Aspect of Deliberate Practice

40:03 — 5 Common Myths of Coaching

47:58 — 5 Keys to Facilitate Optimal Skill Learning

50:41 — Recommendations For Golfers/Coaches

53:46 — What’s Something You’ve Changed Your Mind About Over Your Career?

56:07 — Book Recommendations

57:27 — Current Projects

Resources

Book Recommendation #1: Thinking, Fast and Slow

Paper #1: An extended challenge-based framework for practice design in sports coaching

Paper #2: Effective practice and instruction: A skill acquisition framework for excellence

About Dr. Nicola Hodges

Google Scholar: Link

Dr Nicola Hodges runs the Motor Skills Lab in Kinesiology at UBC, in Vancouver Canada, which is on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.

It is here she studies anything to do with practice and the processes underpinning motor skill performance and learning. She conducts laboratory experiments with new learners to determine how and why various practice variables (such as instruction, demonstrations, feedback, order of practice) impact motor learning, as well as studying skilled performance and the developmental activities that are best predictors of expertise. She has a particular interest in processes involved in action observation; including the anticipation of action outcomes in sport-related contexts, how people learn from watching others, and how people “share” practice and impact skill acquisition processes when practising together.

She has co-authored the popular book (now in its third edition), Skill acquisition in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (Routledge) and she has close to 150 published journal articles and chapters on topics related to the study of motor learning and motor control more broadly. She has received funding for her research from the three major government funding agencies in Canada and is very grateful for continued support.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit noahsachs.substack.com