Bounce 2

1. The hidden logic of success
   1. they were able to chunk the position of the pieces as a consequence of their long experience of trying to find the best moves in chess games.
   2. The exploitation of advance information results in the time paradox where skilled performers seem to have all the time in the world, recognition of familiar scenarios and the chunking of perceptual information into meaningful wholes and patterns speeds up processes.
   3. the development of motor expertise is inseparable from the development of perceptual expertise (chunking patterns).
2. Miraculous children
3. The path to excellence
   1. world-class performance comes by striving for a target just out of reach, but with a vivid awareness of how the gap might be breached.
   2. top skaters fall more often during their training sessions.
   3. Purposeful practice is about striving for what is just out of reach and not quite making it.
   4. “Futsal players touch the ball far more often than soccer players – six times more often per minute… the smaller, heavier ball demands and rewards more precise handling.” Futsal is a perfect example of how well-designed training can accelerate learning.
   5. you will find that all the successful systems have one thing in common: they institutionalize the principles of purposeful practice. China, the great table-tennis playing nation, wields multiball training; Brazil, the most successful soccer nation, has futsal.
   6. More important, because his technique is reproducible, he is aware of how each facet of his stroke is implicated in the outcome, enabling him to identify what went wrong on any given shot.

(to be continued)

Two lessons:

1. exploitation of advance information — read chunking pattern and predict.
   1. since fencing is a proactive events, the chunk patterns can be provoked. Setting up the condition then respond with prepared tactics.
2. accelerated training — training that isolates and reward the technique that I need for purposeful practice.
   1. Olga drill.