The Impact Of Focus Of Attention On Motor Skill Performance Of Teenage Swimmers

In physical education teaching and coaching,boosting the quality of motor learning and developing the optimization methods of motor skill instruction are the basic guarantees to effectively improve the effect of physical education and sports training.As a novel research field of motor skill instruction,focus of attention has been increasingly becoming a hot topic for scholars home and abroad.With teenage swimming athletes as the objects of study and with the employment of the methods of literature review,experiment,mathematical statistics and video observation,etc.,the effect of focus attention on motor skill performance of teenage swimmers is explored and probed into,thus providing theoretical references to guide their swimming training and optimize the motor skill acquisition methods.The author has first classified and combed the related theories of focus of attention and research findings regarding the impact of attention focus on motor learning and performance by consulting a great deal of literature.Then the mechanism that affects motor learning and performance is analyzed and elaborated.Moreover,experimental research was conducted to study the impact of different focuses of attention on the motor skills of national first-level and second-level teenage swimming athletes.Meanwhile,the effect of attention focus on swimming speed and arm pull frequencies of teenage swimming athletes was explored.The experimental result demonstrated that external focus of attention is an energy-saving and highly efficient instructional method,which is conducive to improve the swimming speed and the actual effect of single arm pull of teenage swimming athletes,especially so for second-level swimming athletes.The result also suggests that external attention focus guidance should be relied upon as heavily as possible when instructing the second-level teenage swimmers or low skilled and less motivated swimmers.