Skill Acquisition and Biomechanics Flashcards
Skill
The ability to be able to do something well
Gross Motor Skills
Involve the recruitment of large muscles group with less emphasis on precision
Fine Motor Skills
Involve the recruitment of smaller muscles group involved with movements requiring precision
Discrete Motor Skills
Have an obvious beginning and end
Serial Motor Skills
The conmbination of multiple discrete skills
Continuous Motor Skills
No definite beginning or end point
Closed Motor Skills
Those which the performer has the greatest control over the environment
Open Motor Skills
Motor skill performed in a less predictable envrionment
Stability Skills
Involve balance and control of the body
Locomotor Skills
Enable us to run and walk through spaces
Manipulative Skills
Involces control of an object
Cognitive Stage
Performer is mentally trying to comprehend the movement requirements of the skill
Associative Stage
The performer is beginning to
refine their technique/ movement pattern. They are more consistent and make fewer errors.
Autonomous Stage
The skill is largely automatic; the performer no longer consciously thinks about the skill
Distributed Practice
Involves shorter but more frequent training session
Massed Practice
Involves less frequent training sessions for longer periods of time
Blocked Practice
Involves practising the same skill continuously without changing to a different task
Random Practice
Is the varied sequencing of different motor skills in the same
training session
Transfer of Practice
Practice that closely resembles the game will result in a greater transfer of skills from training to game.
Intrinsic Feedback
Is when performers use their own senses to assess performance,
including visual, auditory, proprioception and touch
Augmented/External Feedback
Feedback that comes from a coach. Feedback during an activity is called concurrent feedback
Knowledge of results
Refers to specific feedback about the outcome of the task, as opposed to
feedback relating to performance characteristics
Knowledge of performance
Relates to the characteristics of performing a task, as opposed to
the specific outcome of the task
External Feedback 3 purposes
1 fixing errors as a result of either knowledge of results or knowledge of performance
2 motivation through feedback that shows progress
3 reinforcement through positive feedback (e.g. ‘You’ve got the ball toss right’).
Motor Skilss
Any activity involved with moving the body to achieve a specific goal
Fundamental Motor Skills
Movement patterns that involve different body parts. They are the foundational movements to more sport specifc skills
Sports Specific Skills
Utilise a range of fundamental movement skills in a sequence
Part Practice
Breaking the skill into smaller sub-routines and practicing them individually
Whole Practice
Practicing the entire skill as an entire skill
Feedback
Feedback is the information that an athlete receives about the task that they have performed and it can have a critical effect on the skill development
Direct based approaches
Style of coaching you might be most familiar with. No matter the ability of the athlete there is a time and place for direct based approaches to coaching.
Constraints based approaches
Using boundaries or placing restrictions on the learner in order to shape the athletes self-organising movement patterns and decision making processes.
Force
A push or a pull