Mastery in sports and game performance hinges on various skill types, each playing a crucial role. Perceptual-cognitive skills enable athletes to process and respond to environmental stimuli, facilitating actions like anticipation, where a player can prepare for an opponent'
the capacity of a player to prepare or begin a response in advance of an opponents action that occurs due to perceptual-cognitive processes
decision-making skills
skill of quickly and accurately selecting the correct option from a variety of alternatives
perceptual-cognitive skills
skills used to perceive and understand environmental information
perceptual skills
skills where detecting, discriminating and interpreting sensory information is imperative for successful performance
cognitive skills
skills where understanding, knowing, and thinking are the main determinates of successful performance
modified with practice
developed with practice
organisation of the skill
continuous
typically longer in duration
repetitive movements
arbitrary beginning and end
serial
specific order
linked together
several discrete actions
discrete
typically short in duration
one distinct movement
clear beginning and end
strategic skills
understanding ways of playing the game or sport that involve a plan of action
tactical skills
decisions and actions in a game or sport made in response to an opponent to gain an advantage
specialized motor skill
advanced version of fundamental motor skills
that we apply to a specific sport
fundamental motor skill
skills learnt when we are young that provide basis of development of specialized motor skills
manipulative skills - control of an object
locomotor skills -move an induvial through space
stability skills -control of body (balance)
depend on abilities
influence performance of skills
stable and enduring
inherited traits
technique - movement pattern used to successfully perform an action or outcome
style - what the movement pattern looks like
functional skills
Producing a movement pattern or solution to accomplish a specific task goal
able to flexibly organize movement to match the performance context
skilled performers in open skill games are not rigid or locked into specific movement patterns
contextual use of movement in a game to produce a desired outcome
adapting and matching movement to the performance context
definition -A voluntary goal-directed activity that we learn through practice or experience that requires movement of the body or a description of the quality of performance
