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)

Skills & Techniques Task – Due 8 December

Remember to use your plan and your workbook to help you answer the questions.  Take your time and aim to produce your best piece of work to date.  If you have any questions please ask before Monday.

(a) From an activity of your choice, describe and explain one method that you have used to analyse your performnace of a technique.  Explain why thismethod was appropriate for you. (5)

(b) From your analysis in part (a) describe in detail the strengths and weaknesses of your technique.  Explain how this affected your overall performance. (4)

(c) Describe in detail a plan of improvement to correct the weakness you identified in part (b).  Your answer must include consideration for the principles of effective practice.

(d) Discuss the changes that occurred within your performance when following your programme of practice as you progressed from one stage of learning to the next. (5)

Skills & Techniques Tasks – Due 31-10-08

In order to complete the folowing questions you will have to read Chapters 1 & 2 of your workbook.

Homework One

1. Explain in your own words what a skill is.
2. Define what an open skill is an give an example to support your answer.
3. Define what a closed skill is and give an example to support your answer.
4. Place the skills below on the open/closed continuim then place the skills on the internally.externally paced continuium.
5. Using the same list of skills indicate whether you think they are continuous, serial or discrete

Football volley, hockey penalty flick, golf drive, basketball free throw, badminton smash, forward roll, rugby tackle, long jump, cycling and the pole vault.

Homework Two

Select an activity of your choice and describe in detail what you would expect to see in the performance of a highly skilled player, giving examples to back up your answer.

Due 1st October

You have two pieces of homework due for next Wednesday.  Firstly i would like you to redraft the exam questions that you were given last week (for some of you this will not be a redraft but a first attempt, remember i know who you are!!!).  This time i would like you to use the example I gave you on Thursday as well as the comments I made on your first attempt.  Read the question carefuly, split it into 2 or 3 sections and attempt to answer all the sections.  If you have any queries please see me before Wednesday.

The second piece of homework that i would like you to complete is homework 8.  It can be found on page 62 on your workbook or below.

Homework 8

State which aspect of fitness is the main weakness and suggest appropriate methods of training for the following performers.  Explain why you made your choices.  If you fail to identify the correct aspect of fitness no marks will be awarded.

1. A swimmer whose backstroke is poor becasue her arm enters the water far too wide.
2. A hockey player who is unable to make repeated sprints towards the end of the game.
3. A footballer who is unable to maintain a high work rate, touch and control decrease and he is breathing heavily in the second half.
4. A rugby player who is unable to lift the jumper in the line out.
5. A volleyball player who is unable to get height in his vertical jump to block effectively at the net.
6. A tennis player who is slow at getting to the net.
7. A badminton player whose legs become tired and heavy in the latter stages of a game.

Exam Question & Homework 7

Exam Question

(a) Choose one activity.  With reference to your own fitness levels, discuss the specific fitness demands of this activity.  (6 marks)

(b) With reference to two of the fitness demands you identified in Part (a), describe, briefly, the methods you used to assess your fitness.  (4 marks)

Homework 7

(1) Write 3 or 4 sentences for each answer to explain what the following principles of training mean.

•  progressive overload
• frequency
• duration
• reversibility
• specificity
• rest
• intensity adaptation

(2) Explain what is meant by the term AEROBIC exercise.

(3) Explain what is meant by ANAEROBIC exercise

(4) Which of the following activities are aeroci and which are anaerobic and state which of the 3 main energy systems is used to supply the energy needed in each activity.

• 100m sprint
• 25 minute run
• 400m sprint
• a bench press
• handspring vault
• 800m swim

Please use your workbook to help with your response.  Any questions just post a comment or see me in class.

Homeworks 5 & 6 Due 17th Sept

Homework 5

When we gathered data on our performance in football we used video, ticksheets and a personal thoughts and feelings sheet.  Your task is to explain in detail why these methods were appropriate.

Your answer should be about a page in length and will be marked on a pass/fail basis.

Homework 6

From the data you will have highlighted a specific fitness weakness.  For the purpose of this homework it will be CVE.  Your task is to select one method of assessing this specific aspect of fitness, name it and explain in detail why this method was appropriate.

Your answer should be around a page in length and will be marked on a pass/fail basis.

Homework 4 – Due 10th September

In order to complete this homework you will be required to analyse the data you collect on your football performance.

You will now have to analyse your data in detail so that you can identify your strengths and weaknesses. In your POB jotter write up your detailed analysis. Compare your first half performance to your second half performance on your movement analysis sheet and work out how much work you did and how effective it was. Was there a particular area of strength or weakness? Was there an area that dropped of in the second half? Use figures from your sheets to back up your analysis. For example my long sprinting was very effective at the start of the game as I completed 5 successful sprints an no ineffective ones however towards the end of the second half my sprinting dropped I only completed 2 successful sprints out of 6 in the 36-40 min period.

You will also have to compare your first half performance to your second half performance on your skill analysis sheet and work how effective you were. Was there a particular area of strength or weakness? Was there an area that dropped of in the second half? Yet again you will have to back up your analysis with figures from your sheets. Compare your thoughts and feelings as the game progressed. Is there a link to the movement and skill analysis sheets?

Your answer should be about 1 page in length and will be marked on a pass/fail basis.

 NB The more detail and time you spend on making a good analysis the better your answer will be for the internal assessment.

 

 

Homework 3 – Due 3 Sept

    

Choose an activity of your choice and describe the fitness requirements to participate in that activity and explain in detail how these fitness requirements influence your performance. If you select a team game such as football you must tailor your answer to a specific playing position.  Your answer should include the following information.

• The activity and your specific role if appropriate
• Reference to aspects of fitness ( from the 3 areas of physical, skill and mental fitness) with an appropriate explanation of each aspect. eg in rugby strength is important for a prop forward.  Strength is defined as the maximal force that a muscle can develop.  Static strength is particularly important when scrummaging to be able to hold the scrum steady.  by locking out my legs I can help prevent the opposition pushing our scrum back.
• An explanation of how each of these aspects of fitness influenced your performance in your selected role. eg it is important for me to be aggressive to win challenges, however, I have to control my level of aggression so that my level of arousal does not become to high and my performance drops because I become too aggressive and give away fouls or get booked.

Your answer should be around 1-2 pages in length and will be marked on a pass/fail basis.  To aid you with your answer ready pages 1-7 of your workbook.  Any problems see me asap.