(P2.4) The feedback methods i used and their effectiveness

There are many different methods of feedback that you can use while coaching a skill, on thing to note is that all of the feedback that i provide is 'knowlegde of proformance', meaning that it is verbal from a coach or instructor. The methods of feedback are:

• positive - used to inform the athlete what was good about the performance
• negative - used to inform the athlete what was bad about the performance
• terminal - feedback before the performance
• concurrent  - during the performance

Here are the time codes for all the example of feedback that i provided during the performance:

• 01:02 - terminal feedback - Overhand grip
• 01:12 - positive feedback - change in grip
• 01:24 - terminal feedback - grip from wide to narrow
• 01:42 - positive feedback - correct grip
• 02:11 - terminal feedback - foot position
• 02:15 - positive feedback - correct foot position
• 02:48 - terminal feedback - back straight
• 03:35 - positive/negative feedback - weight on back of heels
• 04:30 - terminal feedback - dead lift phase  
• 05:01 - concurrent feedback - bar close to shin
• 05:11 - positive/negative feedback - close to shin but not thigh
• 05:48 - positive/concurrent feedback - close to shin and thigh
• 06:22 - positive/negative feedback - speed of movement
• 07:25 - terminal feedback - the triple extensions
• 09:24 - negative feedback - rocking back on heels
• 10:00 - positive feedback - happy with the completion of the individual triple extension without the bar
• 11:10 - positive/concurrent feedback - happy with triple extensions without barbell
• 11:17 - negative feedback - swinging arms
• 12:01 - positive/negative/concurrent feedback - looking down 
• 14:49 - positive/negative feedback - not reacting fast enough
• 15:48 - terminal feedback - arms directly up and flipping the bar
• 17:09 - terminal feedback - elbows up
• 17:51 - positive/negative feedback - leaning backwards
• 19:07 - terminal feedback - run through the coaching points 
• 19:50 - terminal feedback - not reacting fast enough
• 20:06 - positive/negative feedback - too slow
• 20:49 - positive/concurrent feedback - movement needs to be faster
• 22:22 - positive/negative feedback - looking down  

I thought that i demonstrated a wide variety of feedback methods while is was coaching. I included the four main types of feedback (positive, negative, concurrent and terminal) and some that were a mixture of them.

Terminal feedback

I found terminal feedback to be one of the most useful methods of feedback as this was the feedback that helped the subject understant what he needed to do. For example at 01:02 i told the subject the grip that he needed to have in order to carry out the movement. As i did this he knew the grip that he needed to have and i never had to revsisit this coaching point.   

Positive and negative feedback

I believe that i used both positive and negative feedback very well with good effect while i was teaching the clean. There are two early examples of this. At 01:02 i gave terminal advice on the grip as the subject had the incorrect grip. Then he corrected the grip position and i gave him positive advice. After i did this i never had to correct his foot position again. This shows the effectiveness of the feedback.

Concurrent feedback

I feel that concurrent feedback was quite useful as it prevented the subject from making mistakes while he was proforming the movement, it also helped to imporve him memmory on all of the different stages and phases.

Positive/negative feedback

Positive negative feedback is where you give some feedback on what the subject is doing right but then what he needs to improve, it can also be know as a 'shit sandwich' in the coaching context. An example of positive/negative feedback is at 05:11. I told the subject that it was good (positive) thatr he was keeping the bar close to his shin but he needed to keep the bar close to his thigh (negative) also. I feel that positive negative feedback was useful because it made sure that it didn't look like i was being too negative towards him so that his confidence was not affected.

Positive/concurrent feedback

This is where i am giving positive feedback while he is carrying out the proformance. I felt that this was useful because it gave him reassurance that what he was doling was right. An example of this is 05:48, i told the subject that he was doing a good job by keeping the bar colse to the shin and the thigh as he moved throught the deadlift phase. This was an issue that he was having trouble with before.

Overall i felt that my subject responded the best to positive/concurrent feedback. I believed this because when he was doing the movements if he was unsure if what he was doing was right or wrong i could tell that he was being tentative. However when i reassured him what he was doing was right as he was doing it he was able to concentrate on the rest of the movement.