Fundamental Movements Flashcards
are basic physical skills that are essential for a person’s physical development and ability to engage in various physical activities and sports.
Fundamental Movements
FMS form the foundation for more complex and specialized physical activities. Mastering these skills helps in the overall physical development of a student. It improves their strength, coordination, balance, and flexibility, which are essential for a healthy and active lifestyle.
Physical Development
Proficiency in FMS contributes to better physical fitness. It enables students to engage in a wide range of physical activities and sports, promoting cardiovascular health, muscular strength, and endurance.
Physical Fitness
As students acquire and improve their FMS, they gain confidence in their physical abilities. Success in these basic skills can boost self-esteem and self-confidence, which can extend to other areas of life.
Confidwnce and Self-esteem
FMS are the building blocks for sports and recreational activities. Learning these skills opens up opportunities for students to participate in team sports, individual sports, dance, gymnastics, and other physical activities, fostering a lifelong interest in staying active.
Participation in sports and activities
FMS are fundamental motor skills that lay the groundwork for more advanced motor skills and coordination. These skills are transferable to a wide range of activities and can improve fine motor skills as well.
Motor skills development
Types of Fundamental Movement Skills
- Locomotor Movement
- Non Locomotor Movement
- Manipulative
sometimes called traveling skills, transport the body as whole form one point to another.
Locomotor Movements
movements performed in place, usually while standing, kneeling, sitting, or lying. Sometimes called axial movements, they involved the axis of the body rotating around a fixed point. Some textbook authors label them non-manipulative skills, and others call them non-traveling skills.
NON-LOCOMOTOR MOVEMENTS
Manipulative skills, in the context of physical education and motor development, refer to the ability to control and manipulate objects using various body parts, such as the hands and feet. These skills involve precision, coordination, and dexterity and are essential for activities that require interacting with objects. Manipulative skills are categorized into several subskills, including throwing, catching, kicking, striking, dribbling, and rolling, among others.
MANIPULATIVE SKILLS
The posture or stance of the body, such as standing, sitting, lying down, or being in a specific pose.
BODY POSITION
The path in which a movement occurs, such as forward, backward, sideways, upward, or downward.
direction
lThe strength or intensity of a movement, which can be gentle, moderate, or forceful.
Force
The extent to which a joint can move, such as flexion (bending) and extension (straightening).
Range of Motion
The strength or intensity of a movement, which can be gentle, moderate, or forceful
Force