<p>When we talk about skill acquisition in CrossFit, we
often think about things like “getting a muscle-up” or “improving
double-under technique.” These are all important aspects of
improving your abilities in the sport, but there’s a huge
difference between simply improving movement quality and improving
the ability to do high repetitions when fatigued. So, how do more
standard models of skill acquisition apply to getting better at
skills in CrossFit? How do we differentiate between the information
related to improving skills in areas like music performance and
chess to improving in individual sports like
CrossFit?</p>
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<p><b>Show Notes:</b>
<ul>
<li>[0:16] The concept of skill acquisition in sport can mean
different things depending on the characteristics of the sport.
What does it mean in a sport like soccer or basketball where you
have an adversary trying to stop or outwit you? What does it mean
in individual sports like running or powerlifting? What does it
mean in non-sporting scenarios like chess, music or computer
programming? And, how do we differentiate between skills that can
be learned vs “physical capacity?”</li>
<li>[11:26] Learning to react against others and execute on
complex motor patterns when being “defended” or “attacked” is not
the same thing as being able to have good technique under fatigue.
And, in CrossFit, technique is usually not the separator between
athletes. However, technique still matters – so how can
we develop athletes from the start to have good
technique?</li>
<li>[18:33] Will there come a point where we’ve started to
see the maximum physical potential of CrossFit athletes so there’s
no longer as much “surprise” in CrossFit Games events? Will the
sport still be as exciting when people aren’t obviously getting
better every single year?</li>
</ul>
</p>
<p><b>Links, Resources and People
Mentioned:</b>
<ul>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Range-Generalists-Triumph-Specialized-World/dp/0735214484">“Range:
Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World” by David
Epstein</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_Woods">Tiger
Woods</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Federer">Roger
Federer</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)">10,000 Hour
Rule</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K._Anders_Ericsson">K.
Anders Ericsson</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Sports-Gene-Extraordinary-Athletic-Performance/dp/161723012X">“The
Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic
Performance” by David Epstein</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Ilyich_Tchaikovsky">Pyotr
Ilyich Tchaikovsky</a></li>
<li><a
href="https://functionalfitness.sport/">International Functional
Fitness Federation (IF3)</a></li>
</ul></p>