Motor Skills

• A motor skill is any activity involved in moving the body to achieve a specific goal
• The motor skills are Gross, Fine, Discrete, Serial, Continual, Closed, Open, Fundamental, Sport Specific motor skills
• Gross motor skills are:

  Skill utilizing lots and large muscle groups

  eg: Sumo Wrestling
• Fine motor skills are:

  Delicate and precise movements using small muscle groups

  eg: handwriting, darts
• Serial Motor Skill are:

  series of discrete skills done in a set

  eg: Acrobatics, Triple jump
• Continuous Motor Skills are:

  Movements repeated, no distinct start or end

  eg: Long distance activities (marathon)
• Closed Motor Skills are:

  Performed in a predictable, controlled and self paced environment

  
  

  eg: vault in gymnastics, bowling
• Open Motor Skills are:

  In a unpredictable, externally paced environment

  eg: AFL, Surfing
• Fundamental Motor Skills are:

  Movements learnt at a young age, is basic

  eg: throwing, running
• Sport Specific Skills are:

  Skills used in specific sports

  eg: kicking, tackling
• Categories of Fundamental Motor Skills?

  Object Control: kicking and throwing

  Locomotive Skill: running and jumping

  Body Control: Balancing and tumbling

  Aquatic Skills: Swimming and floating
• What is Familial Advantage?

  The influence that parents and/or siblings can have on movement skill development.
• What is the link between motor skill development and participation and performance?

  If your fundamental motor skills are underdeveloped, then you are less likely to engage in sports that require those skills and develop sport specific skills and participate in sports later in life.
• Discrete Motor Skills:

  Skills with distinct starts and ends