Philip Dawid 4H

AS PHYSICAL EDUCTAION COURSEWORK

Acquisition of skill

A skill is the ability which is used to bring out pre-determined results with maximum certainty and minimum use of time and energy. (Knapp’s definition of skill)

Individual skill – are those performed in isolation. e.g. Figure Skating, high jump

Co-active skill – coordination of movement

Interactive skill – responding within your environment

Climbing dancing and serving in tennis are clearly different types of skill. Each of these skills has to be learnt in different ways. All people involved in sport find it useful to be able to classify skills so that different characteristics can be taken into account of.

Classification is the process of grouping similar skills together then giving them each a generic label.

The classifications are listed in these types of skills

  • Body involvement
  • Duration of movement
  • Pacing conditions
  • Cognitive involvement
  • Feedback availability

- Singer (1982) Physical education and the study f sport third edition

        Davis, bull, Roscoe, Roscoe.

  • Continuity
  • Coherence
  • Pacing
  • Environmental conditions
  • Intrinsic feed back

- Stallings (1982) Physical education and the study f sport third edition

        Davis, bull, Roscoe, Roscoe.

I will now list all types of classification continuums

Body involvement continuum

Fine skills are defined as small movements of specific parts of the body for example shooting a rifle (you would use your index finger)

Gross skills involve large muscle groups and movement of the whole body. An example of this would be the high jump.

Rifle shooting                        basket ball free shot                        high jump

Fine                                                                        Gross

In between the two extreme skills are skills which need greater or less body involvement.

Continuing Continuum

This continuum is concerned with how well defined the beginning and end of the skill are - discrete, serial and continuous skills.

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Discrete skills - are brief, well-defined actions which have a clear beginning and end. They are single, specific skills, which make up the actions involved in a variety of sports such as hitting and throwing. Hockey. i.e. a penalty flick in

Serial Skills - are a group of discrete skills strung together to make a new and complex movement. i.e. the sequence of skills for the triple jump.

Continuous skills - have no obvious beginning or end. The end of one cycle of movements is the beginning of the next, and the skill is repeated like a ...

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