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Claire has been playing and watching basketball from a very young age. She was forced to come sit at my older sister, Lauren, and my tournaments and high school games throughout elementary and middle school. This is something that every younger sibling experiences. Once she began playing she was a novice. A novice basketball player can be seen looking at the ball all of the time. That is no longer the case with Claire. In the video below she is just showing her shooting form. If you look at her eyes, they never waiver from the spot on the wall, where the hoop would be. (It was raining hard when I asked them to take these videos.) I would now consider Claire an expert when it comes to the skill of shooting the basketball. She has a more efficient visual search and in this case, it is to look at the front of the rim and not watching the ball throughout the period of the shot. The transfer from novice to expert can also be seen in the way that she navigated her way from being a novice to where she is now. One could follow her Gentile's Two-Stage Model of motor learning. The first stage is getting the idea of the movement. When she first began trying to shoot a basketball the odds of her being strong enough to get it to the hoop were minimal. So when moved closer she still had to try to determine the appropriate movement patterns and try to figure out the best place in the environment to pay attention to. She tried a variety of movement possibilities resulting in trial and error. This error could come from not enough arc or holding the ball wrong when performing the shot. In the second stage, of fixation or diversification depending on the time of the game she now refines movement patterns in order to produce them consistently and efficiently, it is now automatic. Also if a player is running at her she is able to adjust her shot form to compensate for the change in environmental characteristics. Overall, allowing her to handle a situation and still have good form in that motor skill making her an expert.

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I have the most amazing mother in the world, even if her basketball form is not what it once was. She had the most steals in her conference when she played in high school. She always liked to tell me to run up behind people while they were dribbling up the court to tap the ball away, that's how she got most of her steals. When trying to come up with ideas for this scrapbook I thought it would be a good idea to get my family members to send me a video of their shooting form and I was not expecting the results I obtained. I knew it had been a while since my mom shot a basketball, and she even warned me that it might be bad. After watching it and thinking, I honestly could not remember the last time that my mom had shot a basketball. When we were kids she would always be out there rebounding for us but rarely shooting. The form that she has now than what she had in high school could be a case of time decay, forgetting how to shoot the ball. When discussing the long-term memory, it is true that it is "relatively permanent". The fact that she had not shot a basketball in a long time could have been due to the fact that she was no longer rehearsing or practicing the skill like she did in high school. This could cause retrieval problems in trying to find the shooting form in her long-term memory. I'm sure that it would come back eventually if she began rehearsing the form again, it would no longer be hard to retrieve.  It is not bad form, she just doesn't have all the proper mechanics.

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My dad has a deep passion for sports, basketball being one of them. He coached my older and younger sister when they played before high school. One thing that he always taught was that there was no need to rush at the free-throw line. He said to come up with a little routine before actually shooting the ball and taking a few deep breaths. This seemed to work out well for him as he always brags about his free-throw percentage in high school. This may relate to Fitts' Law when looking at the relationship between speed and accuracy. When shooting a free throw once the ball gets to you, there are 10 seconds until the ball has to be shot. This is a long time. Fitts' law states that we usually trade-off speed to maintain accuracy. In this case, taking your time allows for the initial adjustment of where the ball is in relation to your body and the control phase while shooting it. The index of difficulty also never changes because the hoop is always the same distance away and the target is the same size. This allows for more consistent results and with practice.   If one rushed the free throw typically they are less accurate instead of repeating their common form.   This would be related to the spatial relationship of speed and accuracy the faster you have to move the less accurate you will be.   Another reason for my dad's famous claim is that you are able to just focus on the shot and tune out everything else around you by just taking that time to make the initial adjustments to have the best accuracy to make the shot.  I can personally attest to this fact.  Whenever I rushed through a free throw I did not think about my accuracy and therefore would most commonly miss.  My dad is always right once again, and this time he has proof to back it up.

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I come from a family of three girls and I am the middle child "the forgotten one." My youngest sister Claire has superb athletic abilities. She was on the varsity basketball team as a sophomore, varsity golf, and soccer.  Claire is currently a junior in high school and within the past year, she has had quite the success.  From getting two hat tricks in soccer (three goals in one game), six three-pointers in a single basketball game, and improving her golf score by 30 strokes on 18 holes,  I think it is easy to say that she is amazing all-around athlete of the family.  I'm not trying to throw my older sister under the bus because I think we would both agree that she got the most of the athletic abilities out of the family.  By saying this we are actually saying that she may have gotten different abilities than us at birth.  This is the explanation of the all-around athlete.  The abilities that a person has cannot be changed over a period of time they are obtained at birth.  The combination of those abilities is what forms a skill.  For Claire, the all-around athlete of the family, she may have been born with different types of abilities such as multi-limb coordination and explosive strength.  In any sport that she plays, she is quick, strong, and fluid.  To be an all-around athlete, it is assumed that one may be good at combining abilities.  Claire is good at any sport she plays because there are overlaying common skills between the different sport she plays.  This allows her to gain this all-around athlete title.  I enjoy watching her kick butt in any game or match that she plays.  Secretly I wish I could be able to combine abilities as much as she could.

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During the final basketball game of my high school career, I had one of my best moves, according to a number of my family members. But for the life of me, I can't remember how I did it. After watching it I realized that it was something that we had worked on in practice. I had begun working on making moves under the basket ever since I was on the varsity team. At that point in the final game of the season when I made the move, I had no recollection of how I did it. This means that it was in my procedural memory. I no longer had to think how to complete the move it just happened. This is similar to the concept of "muscle memory" in relation to procedural memory. The movement was automatic and no longer a conscious thought. After the game, my family from out of town had come to watch and they were in love with that move. I honestly could not remember what move or possession they were describing to me.  Once someone physically showed me what I did it came back to me.  This is because I only thought of that skill in a motor format.  Sadly, watching it now I do think it was one of the best moves I had my whole high school career.  Besides the fact that I was 100 percent from three-point range because I was one for one.