Factors Affecting Learning Skills In Volleyball

There are many factors that affect my learning style for volleyball. These can include age maturity, gender, heredity, physical characteristics, personality, motivation, sociocultural factors and geographical factors etc. The factors affecting my serving experience are previous experience and personality. My previous experience impacts on the the learning style for the serve in volleyball as it I have never been taught volleyball which demonstrates why I started at the cognitive stage. Previous experience has impacted the way I have performed over this term as I have not have a lot of time by only having two prac lessons per week where this has put me in this position where someone who has had a lot of experience with volleyball will be able …show more content…
My personality has been affected when I learn and play when the teams are mixed teams. From this it has been affected with my confidence as lowered as I don’t have very much confidence in myself when playing against the boys as they seem have too much competitiveness and seem to take over. According to Charles Sturt University, ‘As an individual begins to learn skills and experiences success, they begin to develop a sense of self-belief in their ability to perform’. Therefore this demonstrates why my stage of learning. Feedback is also important with the affecting factors of learning the physical skill. Feedback ‘provides players with an understanding whether the skill was performed correctly or incorrectly’(Hede, 2015). Feedback can come in four different ways, intrinsic (internal), extrinsic (external), knowledge of results and knowledge of performance. Extrinsic feedback is information that is provided by other sources. This was definitely utilised when I started at the at the low cognitive stage. When in the low cognitive stage this is such a reliable type of feedback as this detects errors in my own performance that I may be unable to pick up myself. Therefore these factors affects the way I demonstrate my …show more content…
A drill is known as ‘a task or exercise for teaching a skill or procedure by repetition’ (TheFreeDictionary.com, 2015). The purpose for these drills will help improve your sports performance. Three drills have helped me improve so far to be almost into the associative stage. The first drill I practised at the start of the term was, to continually hit the ball against the wall. This first drill that I have practiced over this term has been effective and has helped me improve my serve technique. This is evident as I started off at the very start of the cognitive stage and has pushed me to improve the way I perform the technique correctly. This first drill has been classified as a closed drill because of the stable environments. This is because this drill is completely an individual drill allowing not much space between the wall and the person achieving the drill. Whilst completing this drill, my teacher was using extrinsic feedback as she was walking around correcting my technique and told me that bending my knees would help out with my