Acute Effects of External, Internal, and Holistic Attentional Focus on Javelin-Throwing Performance in Novices: The Role of Visual Information
Ayoub Asadi, Somayeh Bahrami, Mostafa Bahrami, Esmaeel Saemi · 2026
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Description
Where a thrower aims attention can change the throw itself, and coaches split on whether the mind should sit on the body, the target, or the whole motion. Ayoub Asadi and co-authors test those cues in a 2026 study of novice javelin throwers. University students with no javelin past threw under each cue, with sight free and with sight blocked.
Throws flew farther with sight than without, under every cue. Aiming attention at the target or at the whole flowing motion beat aiming it at the body's own moves. The two winning cues did not split from each other. Blocking sight did not change which cue won. The authors place the result within work on complex whole-body skills, where an outward or whole-motion focus seems to free the body to organize itself.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ayoub Asadi, Somayeh Bahrami, Mostafa Bahrami, Esmaeel Saemi |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |