Classification of Skills
- Created by: DanTstudy
- Created on: 29-09-19 14:26
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- Classification of Skills
- Difficulty
- Simple - a sprint start in swimming, where there are very few decisions to be made
- Complex - midfielder in hockey, a person has to make a lot of decisions
- Environmental
- Open - skills affected affected by the environment, tend to be externally-paced [e.g. pass in football]
- Closed - skills not affected by the environment, tend to be self-paced [e.g. basketball free throw]
- Pacing
- Self-paced - performer controls the rate at which the skills is executed [e.g. javelin throw]
- Externally-paced - environment / opponent controls the rate of performing a skill [e.g. receiving serve]
- Muscular Involvement
- Gross - skills with large muscle movements [e.g. shot put]
- Fine - skills with intricate movements and small muscle groups [e.g. dart throw]
- Continuity
- Discrete - skills with a clear beginning + middle + end [e.g. hockey penalty flick]
- Serial - skills with several discrete elements which are put together to make a sequence [e.g. skills in triple jump]
- Continuous - skills with no obvious beginning or end, the end of one cycle is the beginning of the next, repeated as a set pattern [e.g. cycling]
- Organisation
- High - has elements of subroutines that are difficult to separate [e.g. basketball dribbling]
- Low - if skill is split into subroutines that are identified as separate movements [e.g. tennis serve]
- Difficulty
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