Sports skills are classified according to set criteria. This is one of the first things you might have learned in your A-level course. The inclusion of skill classification in the early part of the specifications means that you can use this knowledge in later parts of the course as a synoptic link with other topics. The classification of skills can therefore be used as a basis for later learning.
Just because skill classification tends to be taught early in the spec doesn’t mean that the questions are easy to answer. Indeed, students often make mistakes in their answers by not answering the questions fully. Let’s look at one set of criteria used for classifying a skill, the open or closed criteria, which reflect the influence of the environment, or more accurately how predictable that environment can be.
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