Evidence-Based Strategies to Improve Faster (based on motor learning research)

JeremiahGage

JeremiahGage

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Just posted a new video on the science of motor learning and how to structure your practice to improve faster. Covers why your brain does most of the real learning while you sleep, why plateaus don't mean you've stopped improving, and four evidence-based strategies for your practice sessions.


I'd love to hear your feedback or your own experiences with plateaus and breakthroughs. Cheers!
 
Personally, I loved it. There’s some insight there I’ve not heard before, and it’s well presented and organized. I actually watched it through twice the other day when I first noticed it, and picked up some things that have altered my thoughts on practicing.

Keep it up!


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JeremiahGage said:
Just posted a new video on the science of motor learning and how to structure your practice to improve faster. Covers why your brain does most of the real learning while you sleep, why plateaus don't mean you've stopped improving, and four evidence-based strategies for your practice sessions.


I'd love to hear your feedback or your own experiences with plateaus and breakthroughs. Cheers!
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Keep up the good work!!
Nice and fresh for new members!!👍🏻
 
Great video. Reminds me of this Veritasium video but applying it to pool.


NOTE: The video slowly and methodically unpacks its concepts so it may not seem as relevant while watching the video until it all comes together at the end.
 
This neural science approach is all fine and probably very efficient - if - you are practicing the right things; working the right areas. The trainee still needs a clear picture of the functioning system and most important, where to zoom in and what to do about it.
 
Well done!

Unfortunately, the older I get the less I'm sleeping, lol. Having said that, I used to have a dream occasionally back in the day where I would dunk a basketball - seemed easy - wake up, could only jump so high, haha!
 
jeephawk said:
Well done!

Unfortunately, the older I get the less I'm sleeping, lol. Having said that, I used to have a dream occasionally back in the day where I would dunk a basketball - seemed easy - wake up, could only jump so high, haha!
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Me too. Last night polar bears tried to slide open the deck door and get me. No deep sleep for me🤣
 
I have a surefire method that will improve your game.

Shoot a shot at all the rails, over and over, until you can't miss the rail.

Then progress to shooting a shot into all of the pockets until you can't miss.

Once you are at this stage, you are almost there.

Then HAMB.
 
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One of the reasons why we dream at night is to consolidate the learnings of the day, it makes them become more instinctual. Every night you dream after playing that day it is incorporating your play for the day into your unconscious mind, forming “new files” as an old friend used to refer to them.

Studies have shown that you can not only maintain muscle memory developed through physical practice, but also maintain and even further develop muscle memory through closing your eyes, meditating, and visualizing yourself playing. It can also be done through watching video of yourself and others playing. This is done through “mirror neurons” which help us watch others and be able to learn, copy, and repeat what they are doing, it’s how infant children learn through watching their parents.

A good thing to do is to video yourself while playing at peak level and to watch that once or preferably several times prior to going to sleep, and also first thing after you awake to reaffirm it. Doing so just prior to sleep is like creating a “program” for your unconscious to work on as you sleep/dream. It’s common knowledge that your dreams are generally about the last things you do, watch or think about prior to going to sleep.
 
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