1. Skill and Ability What is skill? and how do you recognise it?
What is the difference between skill and ability?

2. Recognising skill
Sports performer are often described as ‘skilful’, but what exactly does that mean?
Physical performance uses combinations of three different types of skill…
Cognitive
Perceptual
Psycho-Motor
The balance which these are used in depends on…
Objectives of the movement
Situation it is used in.

3. Characteristics of a skilled performer
Actions are consistently successful
Actions are efficient and minimise time used
Actions are economic in energy output
Actions are goal directed
Actions are aesthetically pleasing
Actions are adaptable
Actions are co-ordinated and controlled
Michael Jordan

4. Difference between Skill and Ability
Inherited and Innate
Unchanging- Stable
Determines someone’s potential to acquire a skill
Learnt
Changing- Unstable
Dependant on you ability
Innate Ability
Changing skill level
Level of performance