Foundations of Skill

Unit-II Instruction
✓Three Basic Ingredients of Skill
Instruction
Topic ✓Process-Focused Approach to
Providing Sport Skill Instruction
Dr. Narendra Gangwar
Faculty AFC A License, AIFF Instructor, Assistant Professor SAI LNCPE Trivandrum
The basic ingredients of Athlete
sport skill instruction
Task or skill

The three basic ingredients of sport skill Environment

instruction are the athlete, the task or skill, and the
environment. To provide thefts instructional
assistance,
 Coaches must know the capabilities
Athlete of the athletes they are working with,

The complexity of the task or skill

Task or skill they are teaching/Coaching

The demands of the performance

Environment environment
 • A person who is
proficient in
Athlete sports and other
forms of physical
exercise.
 Task- The mechanical features of movement

Physical Technical Tactical Mental

 • To achieve or
Meet the required
Performance Demand of the
Environment training and
competition

Environmen
Athletes t

Coach
 Three Basic Ingredients of Skill Instruction..

• Coaches should realize what

dominant abilities benefit on what
• Coaches should expect tasks.
different athletes to possess
different combination of
dominant abilities • Coaches should have some idea
of creating helpful practice
experience
The three categories of elements that
make up the most sport skills are….

Sensory- Perceptual Elements,

Decision-making Elements,

Motor Control Elements

It is important to allow athletes to spend some
time practicing tasks before providing them
with feedback or additional assistance

Sometimes athletes need time to

experience the task, without assistance to
gain a sense of:-
1. What works,
2. What doesn't,
3. What happens When they try different
things.
Examples of how we can create Performance -
Focused Approach in your practice.

Coaches need to be able to ask the right questions when

deciding how to instruct your athletes (thought, feelings,
behaviors).

Good coaches know when & how to provide process-focused

instructional assistance.

❖ Every time athletes perform a skill, they are also learn

something about it as a result of that experiences (e.g.
basketball lay-up: rhythm & hand-eye coordination)
 Strategies to create effective practice.
-Rules, Routines, and Expectations
-Setting Goal: Challenging, Attainable,
Realistic, Specific

-Need to know your athletes (ego/master-

orientation).
-Top-down
-Bottom-up
-Sequence & connection
-Game-like situation.
 Examples of developmentally approach based on age levels

1. People develop at different rate and

For young athletes
consider maturation level of individuals.
(approximately 8-12 years)

2. People learn basic skill during

childhood then get better later.

3. Developmentally appropriate practices

should be created.

Emphasize foundations of skills

 Examples of developmentally approach based on age levels

For athletes in early adolescence Emphasize the continued

(किशोरावस्था) (approximately 13-17)
refinement of foundational skills &
more complex skill combination &
adaptation of movements to varying
environmental demands.
 Examples of developmentally approach based on age levels

For athletes in late adolescence & Emphasize task-specific skill &

early adulthood (जल्दी वयस्कता)
(18 to 25)
strategies for achieving optimal
performance.
 Examples of developmentally approach based on age levels

For athletes in mid to late

adulthood (दे र से वयस्कता)
Emphasize the development of
(26- up) adaptive strategies to achieve
goals in the face of declining
physical abilities &
performance
 Visual learner

learning by watching- coach need

demonstration /movements by
skilled athletes.
Visual Learner, learn by reading or seeing pictures.
 Verbal learner

Learning by listening: clear verbal

instruction needed.
Verbal-linguistic learning style refers to a person's ability to
reason, solve problems, and learn using language.
 Kinesthetic
learner

Learning by doing: need variety of

activities
An example of a kinesthetic learning experience is when a
child learns to use a swing or to ride a bike. They can read
instructions or listen to instructions, but deep learning occurs
via the process of doing.
 Information Processing

A sequence of mental events that beings with an

interpretation of the environment, followed by a
decision whether to respond, followed by a plan
for producing the chosen response

-What should i be looking for?

-What are my best options here?
-How do i need to feel and be focused?
Information Process: Depends on The
Factors influence the quality of decision
making …..

• Knowledge of the rules,

• An effective game plan,
• Possible weather conditions,
• One's own and one's opponents strengths
and weaknesses,
• Strategic options for various situations
Understanding the four principles of effective
Goal Setting.
Rule of CARS: When to set up the goal

Challenging

Specific Attainable

Realistic
 Task-relevant behaviors
Understanding the that contributed to
Performance Goals successful skill
execution.
 Results an athlete
hopes to achieve for a
Understanding the
particular performance
Outcome goals or over a period of
time.
Thank You