UNIT 13.

MOTOR SKILLS Why is important that we

teach motor skills?
• 13.1. Locomotor Skills • The lack of development of fundamental motor skills in
early years can lead to a disinterest in Physical activities,
• 13.2. Manipulative skills lack of fitness, low self-esteem and health problems as
they grow older (Brown, Walkley, and Holland, 2005, as
• 13.3. Weight transfer skills seen in Ericsson, 2011).

• 13.4. Nonlocomotor skills • Ericsson (2011) calls it the “downwards spiral”:

“Because they do not participate in physical activity they
• 13.5. Shape Movement Concepts have poor motor skills, and because they have poor
motor skills they do not participate in sport and other
• 13.6. Planning physical activities; their motor skills further decline.”

13.1. Locomotor Skills 13.1. Locomotor Skills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=_pWg9xFsNAk
• Skills used to travel on your feet, such as
skipping, walking, running, hopping, galloping,
sliding, jumping and leaping.

• Are used in games, dance, and gymnastics.

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

 13.2. Manipulative skills
• Manipulative skills include skills such as
throwing and striking, in which the body
manipulates equipment such as balls and bats.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6wGoWm6x9pg
(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)
13.3. Weight transfer skills
• Rolling means transferring weight onto adjacent
body parts, such as lying on your belly and
transferring weight to your side and then to you
back in a roll.
13.3. Weight transfer skills
• Weight transfer skills include skills such as
rolling and step-like actions (e.g., cartwheels) in
which the body travels and is supported by a
sequence of different body parts
(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)
13.3. Weight transfer skills
• Rolling can also mean transferring weight onto
body parts that can be brought close together to
be adjacent.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhBhbC-lxAc
13.3. Weight transfer skills 13.4. Nonlocomotor skills
• Nonlocomotor skills are skills in which the body
• Rocking is another foundational skill that is so remains in one place, such as balancing, turning,
closely related to rolling that we typically teach twisting, and stretching.
these two skills together.
• Nonlocomotor skills can also be elements of other
skills such as stretching to catch a ball.
• Rocking means to transfer your weight in one
direction onto an adjacent body part and then to • Difference between locomotor and non-locomotor
transfer your weight back to the original position skills:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx806TMLLH4 • https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=GN1cjZwqS8Y (Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

13.4. Nonlocomotor skills

• Jumping and balance skills:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=VFTpSxSn8Ps

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

 13.5. Shape Movement
Concepts:
• Its includes the following shapes:

1. Straight shapes, which are typically narrow

or pin-like

2. Round, curled, tucked, or ball-like shapes

3. Angular or pointed shapes

4. Twisted shapes

5. Wide, wall-like, of flat shapes

6. Symmetrical shapes, in which the shapes of the both sides of the body are
the same.

7. Asymmetrical shapes, in which the shapes of the both sides of the body differ

(Rovegno & Bandhauer, 2017)

 13.6. Planning 13.6. Planning

• The motor capacities are natural movements used • The basic skills will be the actions that are not
by humans in everyday life (for example to walk, to adjusted to a determined technique and are
run, to throw…) carried out with efficacy and economy.

• During the infancy, these abilities are fundamental • Specific skills for sports, are also carried out with
in spacial and temporal perceptive capacities, with efficacy and adjustment to a determined technique
a general understanding and acknowledgement. (technical) of the concrete sport.

13.6. Planning
• Basic skills will be programmed in the first and
second cycle of the Primary Education

• Once students have a management of these skills

they will work on specific skills and abilities.

• For example: Four Basic specific Skills in

Volleyball

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=tJ9Z6N0xy8g