Most instructor of martial arts ask the beginner student in a certain technique, to always starts to perform the movement in slow-motion and only after performing it with great apparent quality, to progressively increase the speed until they turn able to make the fast movement with " perfection". However, the responsible subcortical structures for automating slow motion (certain regions of the basal ganglia and cerebellum) are not the same as those of rapid movement (other regions of the cerebellum). Moreover, the proportion ratios of the timings of movements that result in a given technique are different when the velocity is altered, the momentum of body segments are also radically different and in the same way, the muscle fibers that are recruited in slow motion (type I fiber) are different from those recruited (type II) in rapid movement. So the question is:
"Is the learning of a new technique through slow-motion movements the best learning strategy for martial or sport techniques?"
I believe that the strategy of teaching using slow movements is a good way and would associate the filming technique to obtain feedback and analysis of the motor gesture
Thank you Jader Sant'ana for your comment. However, I am looking forward for some response well founded on Motor Control or Neurophysiology literature, or at least, for an indication of some study of these areas of knowledge that has analyzed the effect of slow versus fast motion training in the motor learning.
In my experience it depend also on the age of the student, his/her experience in other sport, the level of his/her motor talent, the difficulty of the task and the quality of the partner (if the task need a partner).
For example for a pupil (6-16) I prefer situational learning in natural velocity: to learn how to reverse an opponent in ground fight, I put the pupils in a certain safe position and situation, and I ask to one a task and to the other another task, the solution will easily come in natural velocity by trials and errors.
For a normal twenty year old student, I prefer slow motion to use the capacity to perceive their body, to avoid typical errors using the sensibleness. If I have a motor talent, I prefer situational learning, in normal velocity, but I need a good partner to avoid possible injuries.
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