Documenting and analyzing pre-reflective self-consciousness underlying ongoing performance optimization in elite athletes: the theoretical and methodological approach of the course-of-experience framework.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2024 Eric Terrien, Benoît Huet, Paul Iachkine et al. 2 citations
Elite windsurfers experience continuous performance optimization through a pre-reflective self-consciousness that includes multidimensional attentional foci and normative self-assessment. Using the course-of-experience framework, the analysis of two riders' activities reveals meaningful accompaniments to ongoing optimization, a micro-scale phenomenological description of continuous improvement, and the multidimensionality of attention and self-assessment norms. These findings demonstrate how the framework can capture the experience of being absorbed in performance optimization.