Guidance

Question 1

What does guidance do?

Answer 1

Improve a Performers performance

Question 2

What are the four types of guidance?

Answer 2

• visual
• verbal
• mechanical
• manual

Question 3

What is visual guidance?

Answer 3

when the performer can see something

Question 4

Give three types of visual guidance

Answer 4

• demonstration
• footage of performance (DVD)
• Photograph

Question 5

Is visual guidance affective for beginners?

Answer 5

Yes, so that they can see and start understand what they expected to do

Question 6

What is needed for beginner to understand visual guidance?

Answer 6

It needs to be:

• clear
• quick
• realistic standard for the beginner to copy

Question 7

Is visual guidance effective for elite performers?

Answer 7

No, however can be used to highlight minor errors in technique using slo-mo

Question 8

What is verbal guidance?

Answer 8

Telling A learner what they are doing right or wrong or a trigger word

Question 9

Verbal guidance will only work for beginners if:

Answer 9

• it relates to the visual guidance being given

- it is not too long or complex

Question 10

What is manual guidance?

Answer 10

Physically moving the performer

Question 11

What is mechanical guidance?

Answer 11

Using a physical aid

Question 12

What are the benefits of manual/mechanical guidance?

Answer 12

• allows the performer to produce the required movement when they may not have been able to do it by themselves
• make the performer feel safe and build confidence
• they learn the feel of the correct movement
• it could support and potentially dangerous situations
• can help people with specific learning difficulties

Question 13

What are the negative‘s of manual/mechanical guidance?

Answer 13

• Close proximity of a coach may be unsettling

- beginners get reliant on aids

Question 14

Do elite performers need verbal guidance?

Answer 14

Yes, it is likely to be longer and more complex it allows fine-tuning of technique

Question 15

Do beginners need mechanical/manual guidance?

Answer 15

Yes to support or guide through that correct technique