Increasing the efficiency of motor learning with the help of video analysis

Abstract

This paper deals with the problem of increasing the efficiency in motor learning with the help of video analysis. The text approaches the system providing a feedback in the process of the acquisition of downhill skiing skills. The platform influencing the movement notion introduces innovative means of the acquisition of essential downhill skiing skills during ski courses organized by the University of Hradec Kralove, the Department of PE and Sport. The paper is focused on the selected results of the survey realized by an enquiring method, which was aimed to find out opinions on a monitored platform among students specializing in PE and sport, who took part in this form of education in 2010 – 2015. The research results indicate that the use of video analysis in providing feedback effectively influences the process of the acquisition of downhill skiing skills. Positive opinions of an overwhelming majority of respondents showed that the use of video analysis, in combination with verbal correction, is an effective support within the downhill skiing practice and it is an efficient platform that accelerates results in learning downhill skiing technique. Conclusions also point to some of negative aspects accompanying the use of video analysis in the field of psychology of learning. Such aspect was reflected e. g. in an increased number of skiing course participants who felt demotivated after the video analysis of their own motoric performance and had to overcome it.