Should the goal of practice be to reduce movement variability to as low a value as possible? Is high variability the signature of an unskilled performer or a necessity for effective learning?

Articles/links:

A schema theory of discrete motor skill learning

Feedback-Induced Variability and the Learning of Generalized Motor Programs Optimizing generalized motor program and parameter learning

Variability in baseball pitching biomechanics among various levels of competition

What variability tells us about movement expertise The bliss (not the problem) of motor abundance (not redundancy) Timing an attacking forehand drive in table tennis Regulation of gait in long jumping Inter-individual variability in the upper–lower limb breaststroke coordination Differing Roles of Functional Movement Variability as Experience Increases in Gymnastics The education of attention as explanation of variability of practice effects: learning the final approach phase in a flight simulator

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The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Mr Airplane Man – Very Bad Feeling

Dazie Mae – The Very Opposite of My Husband

The New Mystickal Troubadours – The Fully-Blissed Out

Leather Uppers – I Don't Like You Very Much

Mark Lanegan - Saint Louis Elegy