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Skills & Techniques Task

Before your start completing your answer Rocky has a few inspirational words for you all.

This question is to be completed and handed in on Monday 12th.  Please use your workbook to aid you with your answer.

Choose an activity and a skill or technique.

(a) When learning and developing a skill, it is important to work through the three stages of learning.  These are the preparation, practice and automatic stage.  Explain what you understand about each stage.   (6 marks)

(b) Discuss why it is appropriate to use different methods of practice at two stages of learning.  Give examples from your programme of work to support your answer.  (6 marks)

(c) Describe how you monitored your progress as you worked through your development programme.  (4 marks)

(d) Having developed this skill/technique, discuss the effect that this has had on your whole performance. (4 marks)

January 6, 2009 - Posted by Mr P | Homework, Skills & Techniques | | 1 Comment

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  1. A) In the cognitive stage of learning the performer is gathering information on what to do and how it should be done. Most of the information is gathered through visual performances either by your techer or a model performer, others are gathered through verbal instructions. In this stage the performer will have many faults and the performance will lack control. Durng the skill it will be broken down in smaller, simpler subroutines, so that t is easier for the performer to learn and perform. Drills and excersies that are suitable at this stage are, shadowing drills and fan drils. I the practise stage of learning the movement will all be put together for the first time. This practise will allow the performer to gain familurality with the sequence and timing of all the subroutines that are involved. At this stage small faults will be corrected and improved, and the skill will be repeatedly performer over and over again. At this stage the performance still has to think about the skill but also think about how to amke it more automatic when performed at speed. When the performer reaches the automatic stage of learning the performer can carry out most of the key subroutines without thinking how they can execute it due to the skill level now being higher errors are less likelyto be made, therefore in this stage the performer can pay more attention to parts of the whole skill.

    B) Methds of practise are very important during these stages of learning as they determind how easy it is for the performer to learn and develop the skill they have chosen to improve. These two methods are gradual build up and whole part whole.When in the earlier stages of learning try to make the skill more open as they are easier to learn. do this by using gradual build up in order to progress to the next stage. Whole part whole is used on skills that are found as easier as the perofmer only needs to perform the whole skill then identify a specific part of the skill that needs improved, and work it. Then the performer places the part of the skill back into the full performance and performs the skill as a whole once again.

    C)I monitored my performance whilst carrying out my training programme by doing simple things such as timing different drils, but performing them everyday to see whether or not your performance has improved during each dday of your training programme. also take notes on work to rest ratios. if the drill is to physically demanding for the ret period allocated then it needed to be changed in order to fit the performers requirments.

    D)Now that my overhead clear has reached a good skill levl in terms of my ability. I was able to see from my performance what effect this was having. I noticed that when using the overhead clear i was forcing my opponent much further back than before. My overhead clear has become more consistant whereas beofre the skill was very unpredictable and was just a hit and hope. As i can now forcing my opponatn further back this is opening up space at the fornt of the court to play my next attakcing shot in order to win the point. This depends on how well i can dusguise my deception in order to play an effective drop shot.

    Comment by Liam Collie | January 12, 2009 | Reply


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