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Area of Science:

  • Motor learning
  • Sports science
  • Human movement

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  • Climbing requires managing simultaneous visual demands: monitoring current movements and planning future ones.
  • Understanding how practice variability influences gaze control and learning transfer is crucial for optimizing climbing instruction.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine how constant, imposed, and self-controlled practice schedules affect novice climbers' gaze behavior and movement fluency.
  • To determine if these practice variations facilitate learning transfer to novel climbing routes.

Main Methods:

  • Novice climbers were assigned to constant practice, imposed schedule of variations, or self-controlled schedule of variations groups.
  • Gaze behaviors and climbing fluency were assessed on a training route and a transfer route.
  • Statistical analyses compared performance and gaze control strategies across groups.

Main Results:

  • The constant practice group showed superior performance on the training route compared to the imposed variability group.
  • No significant differences in climbing fluency were observed on the transfer route among the three groups.
  • Gaze analysis revealed that constant practice led to more online gaze control, while imposed variability fostered proactive gaze control, which was also used in the transfer route.

Conclusions:

  • Practice schedules influence the development of distinct gaze control strategies in novice climbers.
  • Proactive gaze control, developed through imposed variability practice, may better facilitate adaptation to new climbing challenges.
  • Further research is needed to fully understand the interplay between practice variability, gaze patterns, and skill transfer in climbing.