12A - Sports Science Shorts: Icing the Kicker, The Effect of Waiting on High Pressure Performance

The Perception & Action Podcast · Rob Gray

October 19, 20157m 28s

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Does making an athlete wait longer to perform a high pressure action (e.g., icing the kicker in football) increase the chance of them choking? If so, why does it occur?

Articles:

Haste does not always make waste: Expertise, direction of attention, and speed versus accuracy in performing sensorimotor skills

Pressure Kicks in the NFL: An Archival Exploration into the Deployment of Timeouts and Other Environmental Correlates

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The Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

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