Skill Acquisition
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Skill Acquisition
Discuss the differences between skill, ability and technique and explain how you would structure practices to enhance these components of fitness.
Skill is an athlete's ability to choose and perform the right techniques at the right time, successfully, regularly and with a minimum of effort. Athletes use their skill to achieve athletic objectives such as running a 10.0 second 100 metre sprint. Skill is acquired and therefore has to be learned. There are three different types of skill. These are Cognitive, Perceptual and Motor Skills. Cognitive Skills are also often known as intellectual skills and involve thought processes. An example would be the adding up of judges' scores in ice skating, the measures of length of a long jump or the calculation of batting averages at the end of a cricket season. Perceptual Skills involve interpretation of stimuli...