Abstract

ROBIN, Nicolas; JOBLET, Eric; ROUBLOT, Emmanuel  and  COUDEVYLLE, Guillaume R.. The Beneficial Effect of Combining Feedback, Observational Learning and Motor Imagery on Football Pass Performance. Motri. [online]. 2020, vol.16, n.1, pp.55-65. ISSN 1646-107X.  https://doi.org/10.6063/motricidade.18142.

The aim of this original research was to investigate the effect of a combination of feedback, action observation of a model, and motor imagery on passes accuracy in non-expert football players. All the participants performed a pre-test, 5 week-intervention sessions, and a post-test similar to the pre-test. The task consisted of passing toward a target located at 20-meters in an outdoor football field. During each session, the participants, divided into Control (i.e., physical practice only), Feedback, Model, Imagery, and Feedback plus Model plus Imagery (FMI) groups, performed 3 blocks of 4 trials. After each block, they received or not feedback by the coach, watched a clip or a video of a skilled peer model touching the target, and finally realized a mental task or motor imagery. The main results of this study revealed that the FMI group increased the performance from the preto the post-test, whereas the performance of all the other groups remained stable across the experimental conditions. The current study showed the beneficial effect of combining the observation of a model, the motor imagery, and expert feedback after physical practice, especially in the case of a short learning session in non-expert football players.

Keywords : Feedback; observation; motor imagery; soccer; motor learning.

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