Review the classifications of Skills.

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Review the classifications of Skills

A skill is “ability or abilities that have been used to develop a skill”(internet 1). An example of this in a team sport would be a penalty in either football, hockey or to the same extent a conversion in Rugby.  The abilities required for this skill would be being able to keep a cool or calm head whilst under pressure without losing your head and also the main ability would be the ability to kick the ball.  An example of this in a racket and individual game would be a forehand smash in either table tennis or lawn tennis both require the abilities of good hand to eye co-ordination and also to be able to keep good balance.

The difference between an ability and a skill is abilities are something that you are born with which can be developed and moulded into a skill that is specific to a certain sport or area of a sport.

Skills can be classified along continuums. A continuum is a “continuous succession of which no part can be distinguished from neighbouring parts” (Internet 2).  This can be simplified to a line at which both ends are two extremes that are opposite in all ways possible i.e. open / closed.

Skills can also be classified into groups i.e. individual, coactive and interactive this is not a continuum because there are no set points in between each of the group’s skill classification and also a skill is either one or the other it cannot be somewhere in the middle whilst continuums can.

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Skills can be classified in a variety of continuums. A few of these continuums are fine to gross, open to closed, continuous to discrete to serial and internally paced to externally paced.

A fine skill is a skill that requires little movement but extreme accuracy, however on the other end of the continuum a gross skill is a skill that requires a lot of bodily movement. An example of a fine skill would be a leg glance in cricket, as it requires little movement of the body in fact only requires a small flick of the wrist and the ...

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