Analysis of Participants' Body Movements and Their Intentional Focuses in Motor Skill Acquisition by Novice Jugglers

Abstract

We investigated how the differences of intentional focuses of novice jugglers influence their processes of motor skill acquisition. In the experiment, novices practiced three-ball cascade juggling over a period of one week. We analyzed the stability transition of body movements and verbal reports referring to what they intentionally concerned for achieving the optimum learning in practice. The result showed a possibility implying whether novices focus on the control of timing and rhythm in practice or not greatly related to the processes of acquisition of stable body movements.