Practice

• Whole practice

  A skill taught in its entirety

  Not broken into subroutines

  Example- forward roll
• Part practice

  Skill broken down into subroutines to learn in isolation

  Example- tennis serve
• Progressive part practice

  Breaking the skill down to be put back together in a specific order

  A-B-AB-C-ABC

  Example- triple jump
• Whole part whole

  Initial whole skill is attempted to gain feel

  Areas of weakness can be identified, practiced and broken down

  Example- tennis serve
• Massed practice

  Practice that involves very short or no rest intervals during a training session
• Distributed practiced

  Relatively long rest between trials
• Fixed practice

  Practice taking place in stable, predictable environment, with conditions remaining unchanged
• Varied practice

  Practice conditions change so the performer has a range of experiences, like a true life situation