Characteristics of skilful movement
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can explain with practical examples the characteristics of skilful movement.
Key learning points
- Skill refers to the learned ability to bring about predetermined results with maximum certainty.
- A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task.
- Skilful movement is efficient, pre-determined, co-ordinated, fluent and aesthetically pleasing.
Keywords
Motor skill - a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task. These tasks could include walking, running or riding a bike
Skilful movement - a fluent and co-ordinated movement which is efficient, technically accurate and aesthetically pleasing
Aesthetically pleasing - something that is visually attractive or appealing to the senses
Common misconception
Performance in sport is entirely down to physiological capabilities such as speed, strength and technique.
Psychological factors such as confidence, motivation and learned behaviours from similar experiences in the past, have as much impact on performance in sport, as the level of skill that players have.
Teacher tip
This is a shorter lesson and as such, a nice opportunity to unpick some recent examples from elite sport about how psychology has played an important part in the result, or to set a short research / feedback task for pupils to investigate and present to each other on different aspects of psychology.
Equipment
Laptops/computers if you set a research task to discover different aspects of sports psychology and feedback. Perhaps steer pupils using the lesson titles/headings for the sports psychology units.
Licence
Lesson video
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Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.Sports psychology is the study of ...
Q2.Which of the following is not an area of psychology?
Q3.A warm up before competition helps our psychological state by ...
Q4.Which of the following are examples of skills from different sports?
Q5.Place the following in the correct logical order from least to most experienced performer.
Q6.Which of the following would you expect to see in the skilful execution of a sporting movement or technique?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What part of your body is responsible for decision making?
Q2.Which of the following key terms are characteristics of a skilful movement?
Q3.When a performance looks beautiful, it is known as pleasing.
Q4.Match the following examples from golf to the 5 characteristics of skilful movement.
smooth golf swing
the ball goes where intended
the swing looks beautiful/stylish
both arms, the torso and legs combine to produce the swing
the ball goes a long way without wasted effort
Q5.Match the following definitions.
a function that involves specific movements to perform a certain task
fluent, co-ordinated, efficient, accurate and aesthetically pleasing
something that is visually attractive or appealing to the senses
using multiple body parts effectively
Q6.It is known as when you experience a catastrophic drop in performance in a big competition.
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