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

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

             Skill is a very important concept in sport for both the participant and the coach as well.  A Skill is “ An organised co-ordinated activity in relation to an object or situation which involves a whole chain of sensory central and motor mechanisms”(Welford). However a performance in sport which is seen as skillful has to include some of these qualities.

-Consistency

-Accuracy

-Control

-An intention

-Fluidity

 

Skill is usually misunderstood and confused with ability and technique but is completely different, ability is what you are born with and how you have grown up to link concise movements. It is learned from an early age, like walking, this is needed to carry out a particular skill fully and also technique is needed to perform the skill.

 Skills are important to performers and there are many types of skill, which occur in sport today and In this essay I am going to review them linking the to individual sports and activities.

Different types of Skill

Cognitive skills- these include intellectual skills such as the player being able to think within a game and to be able to work out scores and other various situations where thinking is required.

Perceptual skills- this is basically how participants interpret a situation which arises in sport, as the same information may be given to another but our brain interprets it slightly different depending on our level of experience within situations like it.

Motor Skills- these skills are linked with the muscular movement of the body such as being able to run and walk in sport.

Perceptual motor skills- these are basically a combination of the three skills above as sport involves is not just one skill.

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 Thought

 

Skills can be placed on a classification continuum depending on their requirements. Barbara Knapp developed a continuum for open and closed skills where, certain skills in sports, which occur, can be placed on a continuum scale. Open and Closed skills are basically the degree to which the skill can be repeated. If the skill can be repeated every time then it is a closed skill. Open skills are different every time, as they might have to be adapted to the situation in which they occur in such as the numerous environmental factors which can effect ...

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