Skill in Sport

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Skill in Sport
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What is Skill?

• Skill is the learned ability to bring about a
  pre-determined result with maximum certainty and
  efficiency.

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Other Meanings

• Used in two ways in sport
• The sport itself
• or
• A particular movement or action.
• Some skills are common to most sports (running)
  and some are specific to one sport (front crawl).

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Basic or Complex Skills

• Basic skills are running, jumping, floating on
  your back.
• Complex skills are that of the tennis serve,
  frontcrawl.

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Open and Closed Skills

• Open skills are when your body movements vary,
  depending on what is going on around you
  (environment).
• Closed skills are when the movements are always
  exactly the same and do not depend on the
  environment.

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Skill and Performance

• Each attempt at a skill is a performance.
• The more skilful you are, the better your
  performance is likely to be.
• It can be affected by external factors such as
  nerves, tiredness and the environment.
• As open skills depend on what is going on around
  you, they are more affected than closed skills.