From Movement to Action: New Perspectives in Motor Learning and Sport Training

How to teach a child to kick or throw a ball and how to teach an athlete to manage the same motor gesture within a sports performance? What are the differences? In order to find answers to these questions, a deep reflection on the theoretical presuppositions of motor learning is necessary, in order to conform to new scientific acquisitions. To teach movement, be it a child or an athlete, it is necessary to understand motor function as an emerging property of a complex system where movement, through motor experience, becomes action and then motor performance.