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Intrinsic feedback

Serena Williams resting between games

Intrinsic feedback is the physical feel of the movement as it is being performed.

It is what is felt by the performer as they execute a skill or performance. Intrinsic feedback can be very useful across the four factors.

Thoughts and feelings on how a performance went are crucial to some aspects of mental and emotional factors.

For mental factors such as anxiety and emotional factors like happiness, there is no way for a coach to measure these factors without taking the thoughts and feelings of the performer into consideration.

This is the reason a large number of data collection methods for these factors use to provide data.

During a performance, thoughts of fear and anxiety may occur, such as:

I feel scared before taking this second serve

This is intrinsic information telling the performer that they are struggling to control their anxiety.