Types of skill
- 1. BA (HONS) SPORT Unit 27 – Skill Acquisition in Sport
- 2. UNIT OUTCOMES 1. Understand the Nature of Skilled Performance 2. Understand information processing models
- 3. TASK – 10 MINS Plan a skill development session for a skill of your choice that lasts 15 minutes
- 4. Questions: Who can juggle? What skills are involved in juggling? Can you learn to do it?
- 6. SKILL IS DEFINED AS…. What is this on about? ‘The Learned ability to bring about predetermined results with maximum certainty, often with the minimum outlay of time or energy or both.’ Knapp 1963
- 7. ‘The Learned ability to bring about predetermined results with maximum certainty, often with the minimum outlay of time or energy or both.’ • Learned Ability • Predetermined Results • Maximum certainty • Minimum outlay
- 8. CHARACTERISTICS OF SKILL Objective Consistently successful Learned Skill Flowing and aesthetically pleasing Movements are efficient
- 9. TASK Get ball in the bucket Ball has to bounce once Cant hit anything else on the way into the bucket Must stand 5m away
- 10. DID YOU NEED SKILL TO COMPLETE THE TASK? Objective Consistently successful Learned Skill Flowing and aesthetically pleasing Movements are efficient
- 11. DARTS 3 darts each 1 dart each Top score wins Closest to the bulls eye wins
- 12. DID YOU NEED SKILL TO COMPLETE THE TASK? Objective Consistently successful Learned Skill Flowing and aesthetically pleasing Movements are efficient
- 13. COMPARISON Which skill was harder? Why? What things did you have to think about? What was the technique? Did it matter?
- 14. TYPES OF SKILLS For us to acted in a skilled way we must receive information from our surrounding environment, select important information, we then respond with the relevant skill. This uses a combination of: Cognitive Skill Perceptual Skill Psycho-motor Skill
- 15. COGNITIVE SKILL Our cognitive skill develops as we learn from experience. Selecting what to do When to do it Decision making and reasoning
- 16. PERCEPTUAL SKILLS How well we select, organise and recognise information from our senses. This will be built on our perceptual abilities and they are developed through maturation
- 17. PSYCHO-MOTOR SKILLS This is our physical movements, controlled by the brain, towards pre determined results or objective. To be able to co – ordinate your body to achieve the pre determined results
- 18. What cognitive / perceptual /psychomotor skills do I need to use?
- 19. Cognitive Skills – Strengths and Weakness of opponent What shot to play Predict where the ball will go Perceptual Skills – Foot position Body position Arm action Previous games you have played against him Psycho-motor skills – Move towards the ball Feet & body in correct position Forehand / backhand Spin?
- 20. TASK In pairs, for your given skill: • Passing a football 30m Write down all the things that the person carrying out the skill has to think about? Can you place them in cognitive, perceptual or psycho – motor skill • • • • • • • • • Making a pass in Rugby Driving the ball in golf Free throw in basketball Facing a face bowler in cricket Putting a 10m shot in golf Making a tackle in Rugby Taking a penalty in football Centre pass in netball Lay up in basketball
- 21. IMPORTANCE OF SKILL ACQUISITION FOR COACHES Do you think this information is important for coaches? Do coaching sessions work on all the types of skill? Are some sessions just focused on technique rather than skill?
- 22. KEY POINTS TO REMEMBER….