Skill Learning as Exploration, Stabilization, and Exploitation

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Skill Learning as Exploration, Stabilization, and Exploitation

Human skill learning follows a spectrum: exploration, stabilization, and exploitation.
We explore new movements as children, then stabilize these movements as we grow.
Finally, we exploit those stabilized movements for various purposes.
This model applies to sports skills as well, just as it did when we learned to walk and then run to exploit that new skill.
This challenges the traditional coaching model that focuses on block practice or isolated skill development.

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