Movement Skills
A combination of discrete motor skills.
What is a serial motor skill?
A push or pull, including applied, gravitational, and frictional.
What is force?
Constraints internal to the performer.
What are individual constraints?
Newton's First Law of Motion.
What is the law of intertia?
The first stage of learning a skill, categorised by frequent mistakes, direct coaching, and rapid improvement.
What is the cognitive stage of learning?
Categorised by size: throwing a dart.
What is a fine motor skill?
A biomechanical term for rotation.
What is angular motion?
Constraints including rules, equipment, required speed, and accuracy.
What are task constraints?
What is the law of acceleration?
The third and final stage of learning a skill, characterised by mastery, the ability to self-detect and correct errors, and slow, minor improvements.
What is the autonomous stage of learning?
A category of fundamental movement skills like walking, running, dodging, etc.
What is a locomotor fundamental movement skill?
The biomechanical principle stating that the total momentum of a system before a collision equals the total momentum after a collision.
What is the conservation of momentum?
External to the individual—gravity, for example.
What are environmental constraints?
Newton's Third Law of Motion.
What is for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?
The second stage of learning, characterised by slower progress, greater consistency, improved timing and coordination, and decreased attentional demand for the skill.
What is the associative stage of learning?
What are manipulative motor skills?
When a force causes an object to rotate or turn.
What is a torque?
A category of individual constraints concerning the body structure of an individual.
What are structural constraints?
A basketballer jumping off the ground to sky high into the air for a rebound is an example of this.
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
A coach-centred, step-by-step, explicit style of teaching, most productive for learners in the cognitive stage of skill development.
What is direct instruction/coaching?
An environment where it is best to train open motor skills.
What is an unpredictable environment?
The perpendicular distance from the axis of rotation to the end of the rotation arm.
What is the radius of rotation?
Behaviours: attention, anxiety, information processing skills, etc.
What are functional constraints?
A tennis ball falling to the ground after being hit high in the air is an example of this.
What is Newton's Second First of Motion?
A learner-centred approach to coaching that enables participants to explore movement skills and solve movement problems with less coaching and more peer interaction, often associated with the autonomous stage of skill development.
What is a constraints-based approach?