Learning skills

• Motor Skill


  Learned ability to use movement to bring the result you want
• EFFICIENCY

  • Being efficient and getting the best out of strategy and technique can help you win faster and for longer
• Pre-determined movement


  • With any skilled movement, you always have a predetermined it in mind - you know what you want to do before you start
• Coordinated movement


  • Uses two or more parts of the body together to get the main effect
• Fluent movement


  • Able to move confidently from one skilled movement to another, such as in dance combinations
• Aesthetic movement


  • Skilled movements are controlled and look good, as in figure skating where skill is judged by the appearance of movements
• Ways to classify skills

  • Open vs closed
  • Simple vs complex
• Open skill


  Performed in changing environment where performer has to adapt and react to total context
• Closed skill


  Performed in the same stable environment - not affected by external factors
• Simple skill


  One which does not need much concentration or complex processing to do
• Complex skill


  One which needs lots of concentration or levels of coordination to do