Technical Training and Skill Levels

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 1 Technical Training and Skill Levels

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 2 Table of Contents Part 1: Technical Training Part 2: Skill Levels Part 3: Skill Level Development Committee References

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 3 Part 1: Technical Training 1. Technical Templates 2. Movement Mistakes 3. How your Brain is Learning 4. Relearning 5. Causes for Relearning 6. Learning Curves

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 4 1 Technical Training ● How do you teach tricks to kids? ● Riders execution vs. your reference ● This reference is called “Technical Template“ (German: Technikleitbild)

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 5 1.1 Technical Templates ● Technical Template: Ideal trick execution Learning description ● A Technical Template is based on Trick relationships Ancestors Descendants Reason: Same movement actions ● They hardly exist 1ft Wheel-Walk Gliding Koosh-Koosh Cross-Over Standwalk 1ft ww bwd Wheel Walk

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 6 1.2 Movement Mistakes ● Identified by: Execution vs. Technical Template ● Can limit the rider's potential Unrecognized mistakes Wrong Technical Template

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 7 Example: Stand Up Tricks Standgliding Standgliding circle Arabesque Catch-Foot Knee-Hold Y-Character Biellmann Standwalk Problem: Using the Hand and avoiding Foot control Never use the Hand for Stand up Tricks

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 8 1.3 How your Brain is Learning (Der Spiegel, 2002, in Simon, 2010, p. 5)

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 9 1.4 Relearning ● Learning a new movement ● Relearning: Destroy the old movement Practice the new movement ● Finger-Experiment Time to master a Trick Time to master a Trick /w Relearning Time Avoid Relearning! Why is this Happening? (Simon, 2010, p. 8f)

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 10 1.5 Relearning: Probable Cause #1 Riders Trap ● Fast results ● Descendant movement actions hidden ● Essential movement actions are circumvented ● Requires high discipline to counter Time Skill

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 11 1.5 Relearning: Probable Cause #2 Trainers ● No offense to anybody ● More knowledge required ● They aren't given enough education ● A call for action to unicycle organizations

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 12 1.6 Learning Curves Time Skill

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 13 Conclusion ● Technical Training can be constructive and destructive ● Wrong Technical Templates can limit riders ● My Appeal: Unicycling Organizations: Take action Share  What you have done  How you've done

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 14 Part 2: Skill Levels 1. How Skill Levels support Technical Training 2. Goals 3. Validation of the `98 Skill Levels 1. Progress 2. Testing Method 3. Teach a wide variety of Tricks 4. Obsolete Tricks 5. Give Ideas 6. Good Parts

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 15 2 Skill Levels ● Not everyone is or will get educated ● Skill Levels as a handy tool

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 16 2.1 How Skill Levels support Technical Training ● Detailed trick descriptions for riders and testers Indicate limiting movement actions ● Lead through the trick jungle

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 17 2.2 Goals ● “They are intended to encourage unicyclists to progress at an even pace over a wide variety of unicycling skills. These levels are not connected to the competition rules, other than in descriptions of how the skills are to be performed. Skill levels are useful for helping riders determine a sequence of skills to learn, and to give them ideas for things to try.” (IUF Rulebook, 2012, p. 99)

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 18 2.3 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels ● Validation: Do the Skill Levels serve their purpose? ● For each goal, validation is done by: 1. Setting up a test criteria 2. Check if the criteria is met

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 19 2.3.1 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels ”Progress” ● Each level should be the base for the following levels ● Test Criteria: 1. Are ancestors present for each trick 2. Tricks with low to zero importance should be in the higher levels

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 21 2.3.1 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels ”Progress” (2) ● Results Total skills 85 Skills with incorrect ancestors 12 Percentage 14.1%

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 22 2.3.2 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Testing Method ● Skills executions should be evaluated on a qualitative base Competition Training ● Test-Criteria: Only qualitative movement inspections

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 23 2.3.2 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Testing Method (2) ● Results: No qualitative testing:  Riders need to pass lines  Riders aren't allowed to touch some lines Even worse Testers are forced to not actively observe the important part: Movement execution

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 24 2.3.3 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels ”Teach a wide variety of Tricks” ● Test-Criteria: Lots of different movement patterns are used Wider variety of skills Bigger movement repertoire Bigger movement repertoire More tricks a rider is likely to learn

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 26 2.3.3 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels ”Teach a wide variety of Tricks” (2) ● Results Total skills 85 Duplication of the 1ft movement pattern 14 Duplication of the (1ft) Wheel Walk movement pattern 11 Duplication of the Seat out movement pattern 13 Duplication of miscellaneous movement patterns 8 Total of duplicated movement patterns 46 Percentage 54.1%

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 27 2.3.4 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Obsolete Tricks ● Tricks that don't help progressing (low to zero importance) ● Tricks that force a side ● Test-Criteria: No obsolete tricks

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 29 2.3.4 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Obsolete Tricks (2) ● Results Total skills 85 Obsolete Tricks 26 Percentage 30.6%

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 30 2.3.5 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Give Ideas ● Give ideas to new riders entering unicycling ● Test-Criteria: The Skill Levels contain a lot of unicycling skills ● Result: There are 85 skills + mounts

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 31 2.3.6 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Good Parts ● Those skills that comply with the goals ● The “good parts” ● Test-Criteria: Count those skills

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 33 2.3.6 Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Good Parts (2) ● Results Total skills 85 Good parts 22 Percentage 25.8%

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 34 Part 2: Conclusion ● Skill Levels to support technical training ● Validation of the `98 Skill Levels Criteria Progress Not met Testing Method Not met Teach of broad range of tricks Not met Nonsense tricks Not met Give Ideas Met

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 35 Part 3: Skill Level Development Committee 1. History 2. Lessons learned 3. Future

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 36 3.1 History ● Founded the Committee right after Unicon 15 in New Zealand ● Goals set until 22nd of May, 2010 ● First prototypes on 3rd of June, 2010 ● Iterating until 27th of November, 2011 → Contents finalized Available here: https://unicycling.org/blog/2011/11/27/final-skill-level-contents/ ● Put on hold in early 2012

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 37 3.2 Lessons learned ● Goals change because you learn new things while progressing in a committee ● Iterate over goals and change them if needed ● Make sure, your committee members have the same knowledge level ● Getting feedback from everywhere is better than a gold mine ● Publish your progress (on the IUF blog) to get people updated

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 38 3.3 Future ● Although new Skill Level contents aren't approved. My advise: Use the new one for your practice ● A lot of talks at Unicon to share the required knowledge for a future committee ● Will be restarted after Unicon Come to our Talk: Future Unicycling Development July 29th 10:00

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16. Oktober 2012 | einradfahren.de | Thomas Gossmann | 39 References IUF Rulebook. (2012). https://unicycling.org/files/IUF_Rules_2012_english.pdf. Accessed on July, 11th. Simon, C. (2010). Techniktraining am Beispiel Sprintlauf. Unpublished Script, Darmstadt: TU-Darmstadt.