SKILL

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SKILL

• Ability - is what you have been given
  from birth.
• It is what you have
  inherited from your
  parents.
• Skill - is a learned ability to bring
  
  about the required result with maximum
  certainty and efficiency
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SKILL

• Skill has to be learned
• you always have a result in mind
• you know what you want to do
• should be performed with CONTROL
  and the minimum effort

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SKILL

• Skills can be BASIC or COMPLEX
• BASIC SKILLS simple things like
  throwing or jumping
• transferable between many
  different activities
• should be thoroughly
  learnt before moving onto COMPLEX
  SKILLS
  

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SKILL

• Skills can be BASIC or COMPLEX
• COMPLEX SKILLS- need a higher level of
  coordination and control
• most are specific
  to one sport and are usually
  non-transferable
• they require more practice
• to master and have more
  scope for improvement

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SKILL

• SKILLS can be
• CLOSED
  OPEN or somewhere in
  between
• CLOSED SKILLS - are not affected by
  external factors
• you usually have to make the
  same movements
• You dont have
  to change for different conditions

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• SKILLS can be
• CLOSED
  OPEN .........or somewhere in
  between
• OPEN SKILLS - are affected by many
  external factors
• movements have to be
  adapted to the situation
• you have to alter your actions
• to achieve the required
  result

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SKILL

• 
  THE SKILLS CONTINUUM
• Closed.D..PF
  ....S.....C..Open
• Most skills fall somewhere between
• D- Throwing a Dart
• P- Pole vaulting
• F- Football penalty kick
• S- Serving in tennis
• C- Catching a Cricket ball

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SKILL

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  INFORMATION PROCESSING MODEL

DECISION MAKING
OUTPUT
INPUT
FEEDBACK
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• INFORMATION PROCESSING

All the information your brain receives. What
your senses see, hear and feel.
INPUT
DECISION MAKING
This is where your brain sorts out all the
information it receives from your senses and
decides what action to take.
OUTPUT
This is the actual action you have carried out.
The result of your actions. How it felt, how
successful was the action which now adds to the
input for any future actions
FEEDBACK
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SKILL

• Qualities of a SKILLED PERFORMER
• Always seems to have plenty of time.
• Makes difficult skills look easy.
• Has a high success rate when performing skills.
• Avoids injury through skilful body movement.
• Maintains skill levels throughout.
• Makes the appropriate decisions at the right
  times.
• Is constantly involved in the action
• Has a positive influence on the proceedings
• Makes time and space for others

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• LEARNING NEW SKILLS -PRACTICE
• Practice makes permanent.
• WHOLE The skill is learned by repeating the
  full action throughout without any pauses.
• PART Requires the skill to be broken down into
  parts and practiced as separate skills.
• FIXED Practiced under the same conditions every
  time. Not changed with environment.
• VARIED Open skills practiced in conditions that
  vary that matches the changing situations of the
  game.

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SKILL

• LEARNING NEW SKILLS
• Different forms of Instruction
• Guidance
• Verbal - This is where instructions
  are given verbally by someone such
  as a coach.
• Visual - The skill is seen either on
  video or being
• performed by another person.
• Manual - The skill is performed with
  the assistance
• of the coach manually helping the
  performer
• through the actions of
  the skill.
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• MOTIVATION
• ( what drives you on / your desire to succeed)
• Intrinsic Motivation Comes from inside you. You
  play the sport for enjoyment and
  because you want to do well in the
  sport not for what you can get out
  of it.
• Extrinsic Motivation You are motivated by
  external factors such as financial
  rewards, winning cups
  or for extra publicity.

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SKILL

• GOAL SETTING
• Goal Setting means giving yourself
  targets
  that you want to reach.
• Short Term Goals are those that you can reach
• quite quickly and are steps on
  the way towards long
  term goals.
• Long Term Goals are those that are set
  to achieve in the long term future.
• Often these goals are achieved through
  success with lots of short term
  goals along the way.
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• GOAL SETTING ( S.M.A.R.T.E.R. )
• S SPECIFIC say exactly what you want to
  achieve.
• M MEASURABLE you can see if you have achieved
  it or not
• A AGREED you should agree targets with your
  coach.
• R - REALISTIC goals should be within your
  reach.
• T TIME PHASED a time needs to be set to
  achieve your goal.
• E EXCITING an exciting goal will keep your
  motivation up.
• R RECORDED you keep records to check on your
  progress

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• Feedback.
• Knowing how successful or not we have been in
  performing a skill in sport is important because
  we use that information to analyse our past
  performance and improve future performance. There
  are 2 types of feedback.
• Knowledge of Performance (KP) Performance
  rather than result
• Knowledge of Results (KR) Outcome of
  performance.
  

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• Phases of skill learning.
• Learning a new skill takes time. There are 3
  phases in the process which are sometimes linked
  and not separate.
• COGNITIVE very early stage. Need to get the
  technique right. Often make mistakes. We find it
  hard to correct ourselves because we dont yet
  know what we are supposed to be doing.
• ASSOCIATIVE in this phase we make less errors
  and performance improves a lot. We gain the
  awareness and knowledge to begin to correct
  ourselves. Practice is essential in this phase.
• AUTONOMOUS techniques become automatic, in
  tennis for example we dont have to concentrate
  all our brain on the shot itself but can decide
  where to play the shot in relation to our
  opponent, state of the game, weather conditions,
  etc.
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