Seeing that my big issue is the fact that I can't process information quickly
enough it makes sense that a suitable correction for my weakness would be
to be able to take in information more effectively, this could be done through chaining information. That is linking small pieces of information that are broken down from complex skills, such as me breaking the gain line, so that when the required motor program is needed I will be able to execute it without much information processing involved, which will decrease my reaction time. Similarly chunking is another technique that aims to generate an effective response, it is done by forming clusters of responses which if properly rehearsed will be stored in the LTM as a motor programme. Both techniques seem to work by making the complexity of skills to decrease, once that is done a proper motor programme that must be stored in the LTM, avoiding too much attentional narrowing to the point where I miss out of important cues. For example, if I broke down the situation I encoutered when I attempted to break the gain line, in small chunks and made practised skills such as: my running line, timing my run, how to receive the pass, carry the ball and what to do after I got possesion of the ball, separately during a training situation, I would be able to generate an effective responsive. On the other hand sub routines are also a focal point if I intend to improve my reaction time. These are divisions of the motor programme and they focus on very specific components of the overall response, people on the autonomous stage of learning have very effective motor programmes because the sub routines that composes it were well learnt, so that when they face a situation they can easy generate a response with out much thinking. Motor programmes are stored in the LTM, as it was explained once the receptor system detects cues in the environment perceptual mechanisms are used to decide the best response, hence it will look for a motor programme in the LTM. Due to that experienced athletes are able to execute a response quicker because their is not much delay to make a decision to transfer a never impulse from the CNS to the effector cells. While that is true for people on the autonomous stage, performers on the cognitive and associative stage struggle to respond quickly because they do not have a motor programme stored that is as effective as autonomous stage learners, the decision making process takes longer which results in a delay in response time affecting reaction time. However a way of developing a motor programme is by practising sub routines, they allow the coach to pinpoint exact weaknesses on the performance which will have the biggest impact on the response overall. For instance, I believe I was not sucessful in breaking the gain line because I didn't time my run correctly, so working on that during training would mean