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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. ... Skill is acquired and therefore has to be learned. There are three different types of skill. ... It does not just involve one type of skill, but several. ...
In order to be able to learn and perform any skill, especially in sport, we must have the abilities required. ... Without the basic building blocks or movement vocabulary, we will never be able to develop skill further. ... There is a difference between skill and ability. Skill is a commonly used word which has a variety of interpretations. In sport, we tend to use skill more as a concept than a word. Skills can exist within a sport {for example, a serve in tennis} or the sport itself can be a skill. There is a strong relationship between the three terms: skill, ability and technique, basically in order to learn the techniques we need to have the basic abilities. SKILL = ABILITY + TECHNIQUE.
In order to be successful in enhancing these components of fitness in practices it is essential that the classification continuum is taken into account as every sport requires a different type of skill and so each has very different requirements.
Approximate Word count = 1197
Approximate Pages = 4.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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