Coaching for Performance

What is a skill?

• ability to produce a combination of movements using a variety of muscles and joints to produce a coordinated action.

• ability to produce technique is the way an athlete performs a skill.

• ability to produce Tactics are the skills a player uses in any type of sport to be able to win

• ability to produce a skill, technique, tactic

What is a technique?

• ability to produce a combination of movements using a variety of muscles and joints to produce a coordinated action.

• is the way an athlete performs a skill.

• the ability to make tactics

• isolated practice

What is isolated practice?

• A practice that is often a drill or exercise that is completed as a whole.

• A practice that is in a competitive situation

• A practice that is often a drill or exercise which breaks each down into parts.

• A practice that the drill or exercise that recreates elements of specific competitive situations during coaching sessions.

What is an example of isolated practice

• line-out in rugby and the subsequent moving of the ball back into aggressive play.

• Volleyball serve that is not returned.

• half a basketball court and play three attackers against two defenders.

• a competitive situation in a game.

Which of the following is an example of a defensive tactic in sport?

• tackling

• zonal marking

• moving a shuttle around the court

• a serve

What is an example of a conditioned practice?

• a serve in badminton without a return.

• a breakdown of a golf swing.

• a 5 a side pitch in football with specific rules for a 3v2.

• man to man marking in a competitive situation.