ABSTRACT
Technique change is foundational to the ongoing process of movement skill acquisition in domains such as sports, the military, or clinical environments. Consider the situation of an athlete who is experiencing discomfort from a rather unusual type of golf swing, or a swimmer who is consistently within the top 50 of her sport, but cannot seem to break into the top echelon because of the inefficient mechanics of her turn and kick. The Old-Way, New-Way approach to technique change, also called Negative Practice, has been adapted from Lyndon's work in educational settings addressing habitual spelling errors in students. The Identification-Correction-Control program is a three-step technique change method developed and tested by a group of researchers in Finland, working with internationally competitive elite athletes. In the Method of Amplification of Error, the performer is typically instructed and given feedback to purposely exaggerate the technical error.
