ABSTRACT

Over the past 30 years, implicit coaching has emerged as a popular learning tool and pre-emptive intervention to avoid choking under pressure. Despite advocacy in the sport coaching literature, however, we are concerned that theoretical, methodological, and practical issues have potentially inflated or obscured its utility for coaching practice. In this paper, we lay out and elaborate on these concerns to stimulate critical dialogue that benefits sport coaches, performers, and their support teams and better situates the tool within the realities of real-world practice and delivery. Based on our review of extant evidence, we conclude that available implicit-learning methods are impractical and presently offer limited utility for sport coaching. Going forward, if scholars are to establish the relevance and impact of implicit methods, then research must directly address and respond to the challenges presented in this paper and adopt a more pragmatic perspective that better accounts for applied sporting contexts.

摘要

在过去的 30 年里，隐性辅导已成为一种流行的学习工具和先发制人的干预措施，以避免在压力下窒息。然而，尽管运动教练文献中有提倡，但我们担心理论、方法和实践问题可能会夸大或掩盖其在教练实践中的效用。在本文中，我们列出并详细阐述了这些问题，以激发有益于体育教练、表演者及其支持团队的批判性对话，并更好地将工具置于现实世界的实践和交付的现实中。根据我们对现有证据的审查，我们得出结论，可用的内隐学习方法是不切实际的，并且目前对运动教练的实用性有限。展望未来，如果学者们要确定隐式方法的相关性和影响，