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  • Skill Acquisition
  • Talent Development

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  • Practice is crucial for skill acquisition, but psychological drivers are not fully understood.
  • Previous research identified grit as a key trait for practice accumulation in football.
  • Alpine ski racing presents unique challenges due to seasonal constraints and limited practice.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the role of grit's subcomponents in practice accumulation in elite youth alpine ski racers.
  • To examine how Consistency of Interests (CI) and Perseverance of Effort (PE) relate to practice over different developmental stages.
  • To understand grit's indirect impact on expertise through practice engagement.

Main Methods:

  • Collected retrospective practice hours from 231 elite youth skiers (USA and Austria, ages 6-19).
  • Measured current levels of grit's subcomponents: Consistency of Interests (CI) and Perseverance of Effort (PE).
  • Utilized Generalized Additive Models (GAM) to analyze nonlinear practice trajectories.

Main Results:

  • CI positively correlated with practice accumulation up to age 12.
  • PE emerged as the dominant factor in practice accumulation from age 12 onwards.
  • Grit showed the strongest association with engagement in unstructured practice (e.g., self-training, free play).

Conclusions:

  • Grit influences expertise indirectly by shaping athletes' practice engagement patterns over time.
  • The distinct roles of CI and PE in practice accumulation offer insights for talent development.
  • Fostering psychological traits like grit is vital for sustained athletic commitment and resilience.