The Importance of Specificity in Motor Learning

The importance of motor learning 101 has been overemphasized to an extent. There needs to be a balance between the generality of experiences that you have general experiences which often comes through unstructured play physical activity and highly specific training. Young children even young children need to engage in highly specific training and practice from very early on because of this specificity principle. The rest of everything else anything that's not specific to a particular sport like weightlifting like soccer like swimming climbing it's not that important for a people.