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I am an avid runner and I have ran a couple marathons. I will be running my third one this June so I have been running around Madison quite a bit. An ability of physical proficiency  that every marathon runner must have is stamina. Obviously when people are running for two, three, or four hours, stamina is quite important with regards to motor ability. Practicing and experiencing having to use this much stamina is critical for success. If this skill has not been practiced until the marathon itself, the runner will be woefully unprepared and likely will suffer quite a bit with regards to their time. Being physically proficient in this motor skill means that it is of course different for different runners based on individual difference variables. For example, aging has an effect on physical stamina (VO2 max tends to decrease by 1% each year after the age of 40). Sex is also a variable to consider as males typically have a greater stamina with regards to finishing marathons.

Below is a GIF of the man with quite possibly the best stamina of all time, Forest Gump.

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Marching in our band is no easy task. Take for instance the marching step itself. Mike Leckrone's "Stop at the Top" marching step incorporated into the band 50 years ago is quite difficult and physically demanding by itself, but throw in playing at the same time and marching becomes crazy tough, especially for a beginner. That's why we practice four times a week, for two hours. Distribution of practice is quite important for improving upon a skill, the Baddely and Longman experiment in 1978 looked at four groups doing different practice sessions on a keyboard for a certain amount of time over the course of different numbers of weeks. The sessions that were shorter in length but were the longest in terms of how many weeks had the most efficient keyboard typers. Basically what I am saying is that because we practice throughout the semester and put in the practice time, we retain that marching style very well. And that's why we are the best marching band in the country!

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UW Marching Band at Lambeau Field  Halftime  9-30-18

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The Augmented feedback of Basketball (I do my best Gregg Popovich impression)

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The Augmented feedback of Basketball (I do my best Gregg Popovich impression)

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Intramural basketball can be really fun, especially when you're playing a sport you enjoy. For me I love basketball, but I hadn't played in a competitive, officiated game in four years. Augmented feedback played a big role for me because one of my teammates didn't have much experience playing prior to the intramural season so I had to give him lots of information about his patterns of actions or knowledge of performance (KP). This was mostly just verbal KP consisting of me telling him, you're shooting the ball too strong so aim for the front of the hoop, or aim your feet towards the basket instead of away. We practiced outside of the games so he could get better. Most of my advice was prescriptive as I wanted to offer him good advice to maximize his playing ability. Pretty soon he was playing so well he was shooting like Steph Curry. SPLASH!

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Coordination is Key: A longboarding story

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Coordination is Key: A longboarding story

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Longboarding is without a doubt the champ for campus travel (I may be biased). Still, the asymmetric bimanual coordination involved with riding a board still takes time to get used to, especially on the busy streets of Madison. The body tends to have a strong preference for having both limbs do the same thing. Often when one is first starting out doing a bimanual task like longboarding they wipe out just like that one guy in the GIF below. The first time I longboarded I bombed a hill and ate it on the concrete. It takes time to get used to not performing the same skill with both legs (like riding a bike). You have to push off with one leg and maintain balance on the board with the other. On top of this, you have to have good coordination to look at the path ahead of you to watch for divots or holes in the road. But once someone gets it down, it's bombs away!

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Ana knows this for sure, but I am a part of the UW Marching band here on campus. If there's one thing I will always remember is how to play our fight song "On Wisconsin". Long Term Memory is a major player here. I go months without playing, yet every time I come back for Fall band at the end of August, I easily remember the tune. Why? Well because of my long term memory! You look at the parts for music and over time I can both recall and recognize the song instantaneously. Because long term memory is relatively permanent and forgetting only occurs due to retrieval problems, once I play the first note correctly I have the song down no matter how long it has been since I last played. Also, with long term memory's unlimited capacity, I have found my ability to learn a lot of our songs easy. The image below shows the complexity of a band piece, but with everyone's ability to remember the pieces we play, the music becomes fully realized.