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Skill in Sport

By the end of the lesson…

ALL of you will understand what a skilful performance is, and know what open and closed skills are

MOST of you will understand the skill continuum and be able to accurately place skills on a continuum

SOME of you will consider skills from your own sport and be able to apply the knowledge gained in this lesson to demonstrate a greater understanding of the skills necessary in your sport and the consequences it has on training.

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Who is the most skilful?

• Explain your reasons

• Can you identify what skilful performance is? Write down what you think skilful performance is.

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OK, how can you tell if somebody is skilful?

Definition of skill…1. “Skill is the ability to bring out a pre-determined result, with maximum

certainty and with minimum outlay of energy or time or both”

A skilful player is consistent, adaptable and efficient with both their energy and time when performing.

A skilful person is: Consistent Efficient

Time Energy

Adaptable

Are you skilful? Could you prove it?

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There are different types of skill

Open

Different each time

Constant reference to environment

Closed

Set pattern of movement

Initial or no reference to environment

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Which of the following are open skills? (a quick recap!)

OPEN

OPEN

OPEN

OPEN

OPENCLOSED

CLOSED

CLOSED

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Skill in Sport (lesson 2)

By the end of the lesson…

ALL will understand what ability is how six different abilities contribute to skilful performance and how we learn new skills

MOST should be able to explain which abilities are contributing to skills within your sport and how you have learnt the skills

you can performSOME might learn a new skill today or create a plan to learn one

(wait and see!)

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The abilities that form the basis of skill.

Speed – the ability to move parts or the whole body over a specified distance in the quickest time possible

Agility – the ability to change direction at speed quickly

Co-ordination – the ability to link up the movement of different body parts and co-ordinate them with the eye

Flexibility – The range of movement allowed at a joint or series of joints.

Balance – the ability to control bodily movement

Reaction time – the ability to make decisions and start movement quickly

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4 main ways of learning skill

Practice On your own With others

Copying Older relatives People at school People on TV

Trial and error Learning by your mistakes

Role models Your idols People you want to be like

For each of these main ways of learning skill, come up with your own examples. How did you learn your skills?

How did you learn the skills that you have?

How long did it take?

Who helped?

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Information Processing Model – catching a ball

Input.

The display, sights, sounds etc. ples the feedback from last

attempte.g. ball travelling to

your left

Decision making

Your brain works out what to do

eg. move quickly to left and put out

hands

Output

Moving to the left to catch the ball

Feedback.

Intrinsic – muscle receptors tell you whether you have caught itExtrinsic – e.g. coach information

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How do you know if you have produced a good performance?

Feedback

Internal This comes from inside the body

Muscles give the brain information telling it what happened

Have you ever hit a ball really sweetly? How did you know? I bet it felt good

External This is feedback from outside the body

What you see as a result of performance The ball going in the back of the net

What others tell you The coach Team mates

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Feedback continued..

Knowledge of results (KR) This tells you what happened

You won the game You hit the bar You came third in the race

It isn’t that effective as a form of feedback

Knowledge of performance (KP) This tells you how it happened

How you performed What you did well Where you can improve

It is a much more effective form of feedback