Skill Acquisition for Sport

Journals

• High Ability Studies, opens in a new tab provides a forum for the promotion of high ability, whether through the communication of scientific research, theory, or the exchange of practical experience and ideas.
• Human Movement Science, opens in a new tab provides a medium for publishing disciplinary and multidisciplinary studies on human movement. It brings together psychological, biomechanical and neurophysiological research on the control, organization and learning of human movement, including the perceptual support of movement.
• International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, opens in a new tab is a peer-reviewed, academic/professional journal, which has the mission of bridging the gap between coaching and sports science.
• International Journal of Sport Psychology, opens in a new tab is committed to the dissemination of both theoretical and practical contributions across the expansive domain of human movement sciences. Manuscripts that investigate the intersection of psychology, sport pedagogy, exercise and sport performance are welcomed.
• Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, opens in a new tab is a peer reviewed journal designed to significantly advance thought, theory, and research on applied aspects of sport and exercise psychology through experimental studies, qualitative research, correlational studies, case studies, position papers, critical reviews.
• Journal of Motor Behavior, opens in a new tab publishes articles that contribute to a basic understanding of motor control mechanisms from different disciplinary perspectives and levels of analysis, including neurophysiological, biomechanical, electrophysiological, psychological, mathematical and physical, and clinical approaches.
• Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, opens in a new tab is a peer-reviewed publication designed to stimulate and communicate research theory in all areas of sport and exercise psychology. It emphasises original research reports that advance our understanding of human behaviour as it relates to sport and exercise.
• Journal of Sports Sciences, opens in a new tab publishes research on various aspects of the sports and exercise sciences, including anatomy, biochemistry, biomechanics, performance analysis, physiology, psychology, sports medicine and health, as well as coaching and talent identification, kinanthropometry and other interdisciplinary perspectives.
• Motor Control, opens in a new tab is a peer-reviewed journal that provides a multidisciplinary examination of human movement across the lifespan and focusses on keeping abreast of current developments in the field of motor control.
• Perception, opens in a new tab covers functional aspects of normal and abnormal perception and its underlying processes, whether from a psychophysical, neuroscience, developmental, comparative or applied perspective.
• Perceptual and Motor Skills, opens in a new tab is dedicated to publishing basic and applied research in perception, cognition, and motor skills.
• Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, opens in a new tab publishes scientific research focusing on human movement as it relates to exercise and sport.
• Psychology of Sport and Exercise Visual Cognition, opens in a new tab an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined.

Videos

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• And then a miracle occurs: how coaches can impact sprinting technique, Stuart McMillan, CEO ALTIS, Online presentation, (6 June 2024).
• Inspiring athletes to take ownership of their learning, Alexandra Roberts, AIS Skill Acquisition, 2020 VISION Combat Coach Seminar (28 May 2017).
• Practice structure and design for skill retention, Michael Maloney, AIS Skill Acquisition, 2020 VISION Combat Coach Seminar (27 May 2017).
• Periodisation of Skills Training, Professor Damian Farrow, Professor of Sports Science VU and AIS, SmartTalk Seminar Series, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra (18 April 2017)
• Australian lawn bowlers prepare for 2018 Commonwealth Games, Australian Sports Commission, YouTube, (26 February 2017).
• Working across disciplines, Professor Gabriele Bammer, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, SmartTalk Seminar Series, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra (6 June 2016).
• Improving the Physical Preparation of Female Sevens Players, Anthea Clarke, AIS, UC and ARU PhD Scholar, SmartTalk Seminar Series, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra (8 February 2016).
• Skill acquisition principles applied: Contested shooting, Brad Davison, National Shooting Coach and Talent ID Manager, Basketball Australia, Basketball Australia Coaches Conference, Australian Institute of Sport, Canberra (4 May 2016).