The text explaines some of the key concepts underpinning the emerging field of coordination dynamics. This chapter overviewes a number of studies using sports performance as vehicles to reveal the coordination dynamics of athletes. Coordination dynamics exist across multiple timescales and as such a range of analysis tools may be required to uncover their characteristics. Sports scientists have begun to reveal that coordination dynamics has the potential to unlock new enhancements in performance in a range of different sports. Modifications to athletic techniques can be brought about through coordination training as performers develop metastable characteristics. Finally, coordination dynamics may also play an important role in sports medicine, as clinicians seek to prevent injury and rehabilitate athletes who must balance heavy training demands with the need to optimize performance in competition.
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