2. Technical Development
In this section we investigate:
•What is a skill and how skills differ from abilities
•How the brain learns movement Skills
•Theories involved with learning Skills
•How we can best teach different sorts of skills

3. Understand the role skill acquisition plays in participating in physical activity

4.  Write down 5 words your associate with skills
and 5 you associate with abilities
 What’s the difference?

5. ‘Skill is said to be gained through
learning. Skill is said to be learned
behaviour’
(B.Knapp)

6. Skills are:
•Learned: You are not born with them
•Permanent Changes in Behaviour
• Goal Directed: Used to achieve something
•Efficient: Minimum effort
•Fluent
•Aesthetic

7.  Little Pinky Green Expensive Ferrari Admirer

8. The word ‘Skill’ can be used in two main
ways:
•To relate to an act or task (taking a
penalty kick)
•As an indicator of the quality of a
performance (a well executed shot may
be said to be skilful)
Skills usually need to bring together a
number of our Abilities

9.  We are not born with the skills of catching,
kicking and throwing etc they have to be
learned
 But we are born with underlying factors that
allow us to perform those tasks

10.  Natural
 Innate or inherited
 Tend to be enduring traits
 E.g.
 Strength
 Co-ordination
 Quick thinking
 Agility
 Speed

11. These are ABILITIES

12.  Catch a ball?
 Hand eye coordination
 Accuracy
 Balance
 Fine motor control
 Combinations of abilities are needed to
perform most skills

14.  Psychomotor abilities
 Gross Motor abilities

16. When we say a Gymnast has performed a skilful
back somersault we mean that:
Despite her early performances being unsuccessful or
needing her coaches support she has:
Learned to do the skill and can now do this every
time,
Would gain a good mark in a competition
Performs with minimum effort and so efficiently
Performs the movement fluently and with confidence
Looks good in the performance and generally is close
to the technical model

17. There are 3 different Types of Skill
Intellectual Skills or Cognitive Skills
Skills that involve the use of a persons mental
powers like problem solving and verbal reasoning
Perceptive Skills
Interpreting and making use of information
coming in via the senses. eg. where to pass the ball or which shot
to play in Golf
Motor Skills
Smoothly executing physical movements and
responses (Voluntary Movements – eg. writing your name)

18. Cognitive Knowing
Perceptive Feeling
(Affective)
Motor Doing
Psychomotor/ Perceptual Motor Skills:
when decisions are applied to an action so
often using all 3 types of skill

19. Perceptual Skill : What can You See?

20. Classification of Movement Skills
Skills have been classified on a variety
of continuum.
A continuum is a line with two
opposing ends and gradual changes in
characteristics in between

21. There are 4 main Continuum
1) Precision of the Movement
Fine (Snooker Shot) Gross (Shot Putt)
2) Is there a Definite Beginning and End?
Continuous Serial Discrete
Running Triple Jump Badminton Serve

22. 3) Who Controls the timing of the movement?
Internal Pace External Pace
(Tennis Serve) (Return of Serve)
4) Does the Environment affect the skill?
OPEN CLOSED
(Hockey pass in Game) (Hockey pass in Practice

23. Two others could be:
SIMPLE COMPLEX
Organisational Continuum
LOW HIGH

25.  List the abilities important in your sport
 List 10 skills for your sport and classify them