Evaluating the effectiveness of video feedback to improve cheerleader tumbling skills

Abstract

The current study evaluated the effectiveness of video feedback (VF) to improve tumbling skills with three high‐school cheerleaders. Researchers evaluated the effects of VF using a multiple baseline across behaviors design. Results demonstrate that VF was effective in increasing the percentage of correct steps of the target skills for all three participants. This study contributes to the literature on the use of VF as a procedure to increase sports performance.

The effects of video feedback on running form

“…Broadly, the results are consistent with single-subject experimental research showing the success of video feedback alone for improving athletic performance in other sports such as martial arts (BenitezSantiago & Miltenberger, 2016), tumbling (Snapp et al, 2023), weight training (Cochrane et al, 2022), horseback riding (Kelley & Miltenberger, 2016), rock climbing (Walker et al, 2020). Reliably replicating the effects of a given intervention across several studies is a critical component of demonstrating generality for single-subject research (Kratochwill et al, 2010;Walker & Carr, 2021), thus the current study contributes to this line of study showing a base of evidence (Walker & Carr, 2021).…”

“…This study is one more extension of the growing body of research demonstrating the effectiveness of video feedback to enhance athletic performance (e.g., BenitezSantiago & Miltenberger, 2016;Boyer et al, 2009;Capalbo et al, 2022;Cochrane et al, 2022;Kelley & Miltenberger, 2016;Snapp et al, 2023). This study adds to this literature, illustrating the implementation of video feedback in an efficient and accessible way to improve running mechanics, a novel and important target behavior.…”

“…A multiple baseline design across participants demonstrated that the video feedback intervention was effective for the trainers to teach their peers to substantially improve their deadlift form. Finally, Snapp et al (2023) provided a further replication of the effectiveness of video feedback for enhancing sports performance. They showed that video feedback improved cheerleader tumbling skills in a multiple baseline design across behaviors (different tumbling skills).…”

“…Several behavioral interventions involving video specifically as a feedback component (opposed to an antecedent component such as video modeling) have been shown to be effective across a variety of sports (BenitezSantiago & Miltenberger, 2016;Cochrane et al, 2022;Downs et al, 2015;Kelley & Miltenberger, 2016;Snapp et al, 2023;Stokes et al, 2010). A video feedback intervention comprises two aspects: (a) the athlete and trainer review of video footage of the skill performance, and (b) the trainer supplements the video review with praise and corrective feedback to the athlete for the purposes of improving performance levels.…”