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.

By Shaun Midgley

A skill is something that has been acquired by training; it is linked to technique and ability but is not the same. Skills can be a mixture of a person being a naturally good at a sport, or learning the sport and being very good at it that way. An example of a sport which needs skill is hockey, dribbling the ball down the pitch around the defenders is skill but in order to do this you need ability.

To improve our skills, we have to have some natural ability, things such as speed and coordination. Abilities can be natural or innate; and these characteristics tend to stay the same. This means that if genetically your level of sport if poor, and then you will not get much better because you don’t have the ability to but some abilities can be improved to a certain extent. All sports need ability, one sport that needs ability is badminton because you have to have good hand – eye coordination to be able to hit the shuttle at its highest point and accurately on the court.

Technique is a way of efficiently accomplishing a task in a manner that is not immediately obvious or straight forward. Technique is important in the performance of a sportsman or woman. The way in which you do something is technique and it can affect the score of something greatly by changing your technique for the better or for the worse. An activity which requires great technique is throwing a discus, you need to start off low and get higher to gain maximum distance. This is because of the shape of the discus, its needs to fly out on a side and get higher to get a longer distance on it.

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Skill allowing you the ability examples within sports

Individual skills

  1. Having a good reaction time in the 100m sprint, this gives you the ability to start very quickly after the gun has fired.
  2. If you have good muscular endurance then you will have the ability to keep going in a marathon, or you will have good stamina.

Team skills

  1. Sprinting down the pitch in a football match, this gives you the ability to beat the defenders.
  2.  Balancing after catching the ball in netball on the move, this gives you the ability to ...

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