Topic #5: Skills in Sports

Consistent production of goal-orientated movements, which are learned and specific to the task.

Is learned, has an end result, results in economic and efficiency movement, and skilled performers achieve their goal consistently.

Intellectual skills/cognitive skills, perceptive skills, and motor skills

skills which involve the use of a person’s mental powers, e.g. problem solving, verbal reasoning (verbal skill).

Interpreting and making sense of information coming in via the senses

Smoothly executing physical movements and responses.

to help determine how specific skills can be learned, as well as providing coaches with information about how to teach that particular skill.

• the environment • the amount of physical force required -type of movement required to execute skill

• Gross & fine motor skills -Open and closed motor skills -Discrete, Continuous, & Serial Skills -External & internal Paced Skills Interaction continuum (individual, co-active, & interaction)

Refers to a general trait or capacity of the individual that is related to the performance and performance potential of a variety of skills or tasks.

Work of Fleishman (1972), one of the better-known pieces of research, developed a taxonomy of human perceptual motor abilities.

Limb coordination Control precision Response orientation Reaction time Speed of arm movement Rate control Manual dexterity Finger dexterity Arm hand steadiness Wrist finger speed Aiming

Fleishman identified nine physical proficiency abilities. These differed from perceptual motor abilities in that they are more generally related to gross physical performance.

Static Strength Dynamic Strength Explosive Strength Trunk Strength Extent Flexibility Dynamic Flexibility Gross body coordination Gross body equilibrium Stamina

Techniques are the basic movements of any sport or event

Skill = Ability + Selection of an Appropriate Technique

Consistency of performance Accuracy Control Learned Efficiency Certainty Goal Directed Fluency

What is Information Processing? Information processing is the system by which we take information from our surrounding environment, use it to make a decision and then produce a response

• Stimulus identification stage/input stage. • Response identification/selection stage/central stage • Response programming stage/the output stage

Sense organs Perception Short-term memory Long-term memory Decision-making Effector control Feedback

Exteroreceptors, Proprioceptors, Interceptors

Sensory Organs responsible for detecting information from outside the body i.e. the traditional five senses.

Sensory Receptors that give detailed and continuous information about the position of the limbs and other body parts in space.

Sensory Receptors that detect stimuli coming from the internal organs and blood vessels.