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Authors: Ludovic Seifert Dominic Orth Chris Button Eric Brymer Keith Davids
Publish Date: 2017
Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 365-382
Abstract
Uncertainty in extreme sports performance environments like rock and ice climbing provides considerable psychoemotional and physiological demands which challenge the acquisition of perceptual–motor skills An ecological dynamics theoretical framework adopts concepts and tools of nonlinear dynamics and ecological psychology to investigate and model the relationships that emerge in extreme sports between athletes and their performance environments In this relation the interactions of athletes with key objects surfaces events and significant others during a sport like climbing emerge from interdependent personal task and environmental constraints on performance Performance behaviours emerge through the continuous and active exploration of environmental properties by individual athletes Properties of rock cliffs icefalls and mountains provide a high level of uncertainty due to continuous weatherdriven changes Their unpredictability signifies that performance may be considered as an ongoing coadaptation of climber’s behaviours to dynamically changing interacting constraints individually perceived and encountered In this chapter we consider the continuous interactions between climbers and their environment to understand how they can be coached to perceive key environmental properties when climbing and adapt their behaviours towards achieving performance goals
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