Skill Classification Recap

A skill is ...

• innate

• learned

What is the acronym used to remember the characteristics of skills?

What 2 characteristics are on either end of the difficulty continuum?

• Open and Closed

• Simple and Complex

• Fine and Gross

• None of the above

What 2 characteristics are on either end of the environmental continuum?

• Open and Closed

• Simple and Complex

• Fine and Gross

• None of the above

A skill can be placed anywhere along the continuum

• True

• False

What type of skills are not affected by the environment and are self-paced?

• Open

• Closed

What type of skills have to process lots of information and make lots of decisions to perform?

• Simple

• Complex

Where would you place sprinting on the difficulty continuum?

• A

• B

Where would a penalty in football go on the environmental continuum?

• A

• B

Which of the following skills are classified as complex ?

• A scrum in rugby

• Running with the ball in a straight line in rugby

• Swimming

• Backhand smash in badminton

• High Jump