skill

• ACEFLAG


  • Accurate
  • Consistent
  • Efficient
  • Fluent
  • Learned
  • Aesthetically
• Closed skills


  • Consistent environment
  • Predictable
• Learned, self-paced skills


  • Performer controls and initiates the start of the movement
  • Performer controls the speed of the movement
  • Closed skills
• Open skills


  • Movement based on the actions of others
  • Changing environment
• Discrete skills


  • Have a clear beginning and end
  • Have to restart the whole movement
• Serial skills


  • A linked series of discrete drills (routines)
  • The end of one movement is the start of the next
• Complex skills


  • Many stimuli
  • High perceptual load
  • Many decisions
  • More feedback
• Highly organised skills


  • Skill can be separated and practised as sub-routines
• Learning of one skill

  Can cause positive transfer, pointing out similarities, reaching similar skills
• Learning of one skill

  Can cause negative transfer, inhibiting the learning of another skill
• Learning of conflicting skills

  Taught together can be problematic
• Zero transfer: learning of a skill has no impact on learning another
• Bilateral transfer: learning a skill on one side of the body transfers to the other side