what are motor preferences?
Motor Families
1. Rhythmical (Walking Top Bias to Left)
2. Conceptual (Walking Top Bias to Right)
3. Distal (Walking Bottom Symmetrical Away from Body)
4. Global (Walking Bottom Symmetrical Close to Body).
How we organise the body and timing of movements, how their brain thinks about the world and interactions with players/coaches to learn and perform.
The Visual System is impacted by the Walking Top/Walking Bottom Strategy. Walking Top have a peripheral preference from eye level and above. Walking Bottom have a peripheral preference from the eye level and below. Each Motor Family then has a preference of Central to access Peripheral (Broad Focus) Vision or Peripheral Vision to a Central (Narrow Focus) Vision,
Walking Top people have a preference for their back chains of muscles in the upper body, this spirals around the front of the upper legs to the back of the calves below the knees, they tend to bend more from their hip and have less knee flexion with a preference for Plyometric exercises.
Walking Bottom people have a preference for their front chains of muscles in the upper body, this spirals around the rear of the upper legs (Hamstrings) to the front behind the shin bones below the knees, they tend to bend more from their knees
and have less knee flexion with a preference for Concentric exercises.
Mobile Point and Stable Point
When looking for Power High Mobile Point Athletes would point their heart in the direction in which they wish to apply force, they prefer more Hip/Shoulder Separation. Low Mobile Point Athletes would point their hips (Where your belt buckle would be) in the direction that they wish to apply force (Less Hip/Shoulder Separation)
Horizontal and Vertical Preferences
This links into how we perceive and need to orientate ourselves to the action, but also what angles we want to have our limbs in relation to the spine for more power.
Motor Shoulder
We have spirals running in different directions so athletes might prepare longer behind them and shorter with the follow through, or shorter behind them and longer in the follow through, these spirals mean that our technique for right sided Throwing/Hitting should be a different technique to the left.
Motor Hip
We have an Asymmetry to the right or the left and so we rotate faster on one side of the body vs the other
Motor Eye
The Motor Eye is used to track moving objects and information at high speeds, this is different to the Dominant Eye (Used to aim at static objects). When surveyed with the England Cricket Players 60% of players had a matching Motor and Dominant Eye.
Deep Motivational Drivers
What motivates each person, you have one Internal DMD and one External DMD, they can link to different Brain functions and effect the person differently. You have a dominant DMD which correlates to your morphology (Physical Build and Development)
Accessing players DMDs has allowed fast bowlers to bowl 3-7miles per hour faster with no technical changes made, it sparks the muscle chains into a ready state before you move.