This session I focused on learning the up-sweep movement of butterfly arms, with reference to Luebbers, M (2013). Geez this is defiantly going to take some practice!
Design of session:
1. Start with the hands at the entry position.
2. Sweep them down and in under your chest, almost touching your thumbs and index fingers together as your hands reach mid-chest.
3. Push them back toward your feet and apart, like you are trying to push the water from the middle of your chest over and down each leg.
4. As hand and arms reach an almost full extension as they move past your waist, throw your hands up (out of water) and out to the side, throw hard enough that arms almost automatically swing over the surface of water towards the entry position.
This session will follow the four stages of competence theory (Burch, N. 1970), as this movement pattern of butterfly will take more than one session. Throughout the couple of sessions I will have on the up-sweep butterfly arm movement I will be able to move through the four different stages. This approach will encourage motivation as I will be able to see movement through the different stages, which also means improvement and I am getting closer and closer to mastering the skill!
References informing design:
Burch, N. (1970). Four stages of competence. Retrieved from http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/four_stages_of_competence
Luebbers, M. (2013). How to swim butterfly. Retrieved from http://www.swimming.about.com/od/breastandfly/qt/how-to-swim-butterfly.htm
Statistics/ detailed information collected:
20 up-sweep butterfly arm movements were preformed.
4 were the correct technique.
16 were the incorrect technique. Where my arms didn't go all the way back, instead they came out of the water at the side of my body. Or I didn't get my arms out of the water enough to be able to enter the water again with correct technique.
1 hour practice session.
Reflection:
The four stages of competence theory (Burch, N. 1970) which this session was outlined by. I feel that I am at the second stage of this theory, which is the 'conscious incompetence' stage. This means that I recognise the value of the new skill but I do not know how to do the skill correctly yet. Making mistakes at this stage is vital to the learning process. Another session or two will be needed on this same movement, so I can learn the skill and move through the other two stages. Fitts and Posner (1967) have identified three stages of learning; cognitive stage, associative stage and autonomous stage. For this part of the butterfly stroke (up-sweep) I believe I am at the associative stage.
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