1. STARTER ACTIVITY Answer the following question.
What are the advantages of using model performers to help you improve your own performance? (3 marks)
You have 5 minutes under exam conditions.

2. STARTER ACTIVITY Mark either your own or a partners homework using the highlighted words as an example.
What are the advantages of using model performers to help you improve your own performance?
Model performers can show me the detail required to help me improve. I can use video to help me see good performance over and over again. If I need to I can watch it in slow motion if the action is too fast for me to see, for example, a smash in badminton. If I pay close attention I can see what they do well in a game, and also how they perform specific points of technique. I think this is helpful because model performers seem to make their performance look so easy, often showing that they have ample time in between shots. I want to be able to copy this. By comparing my performance to a model performer, I can identify my strengths and weaknesses. I definitely find that watching model performers motivates me to try harder.

3. To use movement analysis of your serve
Lesson focus:
Key concept 1, key feature 2 – the classification of skills
Learning Intentions
To explain the classification of skills in badminton to a partner (KC 1, KF 2).
To use movement analysis of your serve

4. SKILL CLASSIFICATIONS
Classifying a skill helps us determine which type of practice are most likely to improve a specific skill. No two skills are the same so they exist on a continuum (line).

5. SKILL CLASSIFICATIONS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH TAKE PLACE IN A CONSTANTLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENT AND ARE CONSEQUENTLY AFFECTED BY IT
OPEN SKILLS
CLOSED SKILLS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH TAKE PLACE IN A FIXED ENVIRONMENT
The skill of driving in golf is essentially a closed skill but when you apply it to a round of golf it involves certain open demands e.g hazards, bunkers, rough, wind etc.

6. Performer is not in complete control of the game-unpredictable
Participants have to constantly make decisions on how to react/act
Affected by the ‘environment’
E.g. weather/ opponents/playing surface
OPEN SKILL
Examples of sports activities which use open skills are games. E.g. football/ rugby/netball/ basketball/ hockey etc…
These types of sports/ games contain a great deal of uncertainty

7. Performer in complete control of the activity with few distractions
E.g. Gymnastic activities like a forward roll/diving
CLOSED SKILL
No outside influences from weather/opponents, etc…
Pre-learned movement patterns

8. Badminton example!
What about a you as a server in badminton? What about you returning a serve?

9. SKILL CLASSIFICATIONS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH REQUIRE LITTLE DECISION MAKING AND ONLY BASIC MOVEMENT PATTERNS E.G.RUNNING, JUMPING ETC.
SIMPLE SKILLS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH REQUIRE THOUGHT AND DECISION MAKING E.G BADMINTON SERVE, HIGH JUMP ETC.
COMPLEX SKILLS

10. Factors affecting whether a skill is simple or complex
The number of decisions to be made
The amount of information to be processed
The speed at which information is processed and decisions made
Factors affecting whether a skill is simple or complex
The accuracy involved
The amount and type of feedback
Different parts – subroutines?
Examples:
SIMPLE: To run the 100m in a fast time requires considerable speed (physical fitness) and visualisation (mental fitness). The skill is relatively simple as it involves the straight forward repetition of movements with low level co-ordination and decision making.
COMPLEX: A handspring vault is made up of different subroutines.

11. SKILL CLASSIFICATIONS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH HAVE A CLEAR BEGINNING AND END E.G BADMINTON SERVE.
DISCRETE SKILLS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH ARE MADE UP OF A NUMBER OF SKILLS WHICH ARE PUT TOGETHER IN A SEQUENCE OR SERIES E.G JAVELIN THROW.
SERIAL SKILLS
…ARE SKILLS WHICH HAVE NO CLEAR BEGINNING OR END AND ARE REPITIOUS E.G FRONT CRAWL, CYCLING.
CONTINUOUS SKILLS

12. Place the following sports on a skill classification continuum
TASK IN 2’s.
Place the following sports on a skill classification continuum
Simple
Complex
Badminton serve
High jump
Running
Jumping
Closed
Open
Soccer interception
Rugby Hook
Tennis serve
Tennis volley
Forward roll
Saving a goal
Golf swing

13. Place the following sports on a skill classification continuum
TASK IN 2’s.
Place the following sports on a skill classification continuum
Simple
Complex
Badminton
serve
Jumping
High jump
Running
Closed
Open
Rugby Hook
Soccer interception
Tennis volley
Forward roll
Saving a goal
Tennis serve
Golf swing

14. HOMEWORK
Memorise the characteristics of a skilled performer.
Your homework is to answer the following question.
Explain 2 different methods you could use to investigate the movement factors required when playing a game of singles.
5 marks.