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  1. Can we teach creativity ? (Part 3)

    After teaching a few classes on creativity, I’ve come across a few more ideas, so take this as a short addendum to my creativity articles. I might update it from time to time. This will be more focused on parkour, but the ideas might apply to other sports. How can we make creativity less abstract ?...

  2. Can we teach creativity ? (Part 2)

    In the first part, I suggested that in the context of motor learning, it would be profitable to move aways from thinking of creativity as ideation, i.e. thinking new ideas that can then be put into actions. Rather, these are fruitful ways of thinking about creativity: It can be defined as...

  3. Why we need variability of movement

    When it comes to producing skillful sport performance, we tend to think that we need to achieve a very consistent way of moving. In that perspective, less movement variability means better performance. This comes from a common assumption that consistent performance is an essential element of skill....