Gerard Markes 12PR        Miss Chandler,        P.E ESSAY- Classification of Skill

SKILL ACQUISITION

“Review the classification of skills to include the differences between individual, coactive and interactive.”

My definition of skill is a coordinated, consistent and controlled movement that is aesthetic (good to watch). Skill is learned and is predetermined used with good technique. This is a definition of skill itself according to ‘Bull’:

‘Skill is learned; it is the efficient attainment of a pre-specified goal; it involves speed, accuracy and the adaptation of movements to the requirements of the task.’

‘Roscoe Textbook’ defines the classification of skills:

‘Classification is the process of grouping similar skills together and giving them a generic label.’

Skill is split into 3 categories: Motor, Perceptual and Cognitive. Motor Skills are skills that use the muscular system to initiate movement and muscular control e.g. running or swimming. Perceptual Skills are skills that involve the interpretation of information received from the surroundings (stimuli) e.g. snooker. Cognitive Skills are those which your intellect is involved in thought e.g. adding/subtracting score in darts.

Within skill there are many types, each needing different attributes for them to be executed perfectly, for example, the free throw in Basketball, if you have your hands in the wrong position, the shot ends up being wayward of the hoop. Individual skills are skills performed in isolation (e.g. Trampolining). Coactive skills are those performed at the same time as others but without direct confrontation (e.g. Golf). Interactive skills are those where other performers are directly involved (e.g. Lacrosse).

Because there is such an amazing diversity of skills, it makes, classifying them quite hard. Because it is hard to specifically classify skills, to be able to show the differences within skills, we compare the skills on a continuum. We place the skills on the continuum between opposite classifications, for example, ‘closed’ an ‘open’. This is to give me a better knowledge of the skills I am going to be analysing.

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To gain a better understanding between the differences of interactive, coactive and individual skills I am going to compare 6 different skills in sport, 2 from each category and place them along 4 continuums of varying types of skill.

OPEN   5 6                                                                                       4 3  1  2  CLOSED

Open skills are those affected ...

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