Review The Classification Of Skills To Include The Differences Between Individual, Co-active And Interactive Skills

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Review The Classification Of Skills To Include

The Differences Between Individual,

Co-active And Interactive Skills

Introduction:

        There is a large range of sporting activities each requiring a set of skills.  have many characteristics that can change in different situations, which makes classifying them difficult. Accepting that skills cannot be neatly labelled, we place them on a continuum.

Most skill classification systems are based on the view that motor skills are affected by three factors:

  • how precise a movement is
  • whether the movement has a definite beginning and end
  • whether the environment affects the performance of the skill

SKILL = ABILITY + TECHNIQUE

        A skill is the performers ability to choose and perform the right techniques at the right time, successfully and at the right time with minimum effort. Performers use their skill to achieve certain objectives for them. E.g. sprinting a 10.0 second 100m. Skill is acquired and therefore has to be learnt.

        There are three types of skill:

  1. Cognitive (involves thought processes)
  2. Perceptual (involves interpretation of information)
  3. Motor (involves movement)

Techniques are the basic movements of any sport or event e.g. the block start in a 100m race is a technique. We combine a number of techniques into a pattern of movement e.g. triple jump – running and then the hop, skip and jump phases.

        Ability is the make up of a performer, which we inherit from our parents. Abilities underpin and contribute to skills. Abilities can be essentially perceptual, essentially motor or a combination of both. Most abilities to do with action are a combination and are referred to as psychomotor abilities. At the present time there is no definitive list of psychomotor abilities.

Stallings L M (1982) identified the following psychomotor abilities: Muscular power and endurance, flexibility, balance, co-ordination and differential relaxation (selective adjustment of muscle tension).

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Fleishman E A (1972) identified the following nine psychomotor abilities (referred to as gross motor abilities): Extent flexibility, dynamic flexibility, explosive strength, static strength, dynamic strength, trunk strength, gross body co-ordination, gross body equilibrium and stamina.

If you are of average height, strong, good co-ordination and have an abundance of  in your legs then you have the natural ability to be a sprinter.

        All of these skills have different performance requirements. Individual and co-active skills require concentration and often performance of a pre-learned routine/sequence of movements. Interactive skills will require interpretation and variation depending on the situation. An obvious link ...

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