today's session is both a gccp session and an a level session because if you're doing a level pe this could be useful for you as well because this topic is covered in a level p in a similar way we look at the classification of skill now the word classification is one of those ones examples love to use and what they really mean is how something is divided up or grouped in some way so the first one is called open and closed skills the next one's called basic and complex skills and then you've got high and low organization skills so in this video we'll look at how to be able to know the difference between all of that look at the first classification is called open skills and closed heels and they fall on what we call a continuum which is basically a line so one end you've got the most open of skills and at the other end you've got the most closed skills i'll show you one of those in a minute on a little clip so let's look at open skills first so open skills occur in open play so open players when a game is going on it's in full flow you've got to adapt to what you're doing people and your team are moving around people on the other team are moving around you've got to adapt to that scenario so each time you do that skill it might be very slightly different because you've got to play the pass if you're doing football pass at a certain speed to be able to reach that person or you've got to play over the top or you've got to make sure you avoid it being intercepted so we call open skills occur in open play because everything is changing around you you've got to adapt those skills they're almost never completely identical you might think they are but you're always taking something into account now at the other end you got closed skills now the most closed skills are skills that you can perform any time and you have to do it in exactly the same way so for example something like a free throw in basketball where it's like a penalty shot in basketball you go to the line that line is always the same distance from the basket no matter what court you play on nobody can stop you taking that shot because it's a free shot you can take your time and set yourself up and go for a routine and you decide when you make that shot nobody else okay now within closed skills there is often like a kind of a time sequence you've got to have done it in but that's normally plenty of time to have achieved that skill so closed skills are self-paced nobody can stop you doing them and they're always from the same area now somewhere between those open skills and closed skills you've got other ones slightly in between so a closed skill could also be seen as a rugby penalty kick now those who know a lot about rugby know that a penalty kick's not always taken from the same spot but what the kicker will try and do he'll try and imagine that it is and he'll go through sub routines and practice to make sure all of his kicks are actually very very similar depe regardless of where that is on the page let's look first at open and close girls now this blue line you can see that's what we call the continuum and this is our open and closed continuum it's basically like a scale from one extreme to the other so one extreme we've got open and the other end we've got closed skills okay now some skills will fit in between we're going to primarily look at ones that fit nearer to those extremes above the closed skill end of the continuum you've got a basketball player and they're taking a free throw which is like a penalty shot each worth one point you can see that there are players there but they can't do anything to distract the player they can't get in his way he has got time to take the shot to set himself up now that's something he can practice in training because the line is the same distance away the basket is always the same height so that really is a good example of a closed skill now at the far left are our open skills we've got a player trying to make a pass between maybe two defenders into the path of an ongoing player now there's lots of things going on the past has to be the right speed it has to be the right uh curve on it maybe to get around the player so there's lots of things that player has got to do to make sure it meets that player it'd be really hard for him to practice that exact situation in practice he might practice similar situations by doing mini condition games or 3b1 but to actually do the identical scenario would be almost impossible now they'll practice loads and loads and loads doing open skills and open kind of open play situations so when it comes to this situation he can recall something that's really really similar and hopefully his pass will meet the player on his run so let's look at the closed skills so another example as i mentioned earlier is a rugby penalty kick it's not as closed as the basketball free throw because that could be taken from any part of the pitch it's not always straight in front of the post it could be side to side now a football penalty kick might be as seen as a bit more closed but there is a goalie in front the goalie is also a factor but what a football penalty taker will try and do when they practice they're ignoring the goalie they're just thinking if i hit it into that spot in the goal i should score the keeper makes a save the keeper's done really really well so a penalty taker won't always practice with a football goalie and goal because they're literally trying to hit the same spot in the goal every time a good penalty taker probably has two penalties that they practice to go in two separate areas of the goal so they can recall that type of closed skill that's one of the reasons they practice lots of rugby penalty kicks after training and football pendants kickstarter training a netball shot is also relatively closed because if the player catches it often they're going to shoot probably within one to three meters from the the goal their defender has to be under normal circumstances around a meter away during the pandemic slightly more so they've got a chance really of shooting and under little pressure it's unlikely that the goalkeeper or gold defense are going to put her under enough pressure to stop them taking that shot and they've probably practiced lots and lots from different spots between one and three meters around that area so pretty much is closed because they've got three seconds to take it that's quite a long time you've got the ball in your hands they'll set themselves up and they'll go back to something they did in training and try and replicate that now the other end you've got so that's more open would be an interception in netball so the player's got to time their interception it won't always look the same there might be different height speed on the ball the player they're marking may be doing islamic slightly different to normal so they've got to judge everything that's going on it'd be impossible to practice that exact situation now they'll practice similar situations and hope that during the game those similar situations will arise and they can adapt in that moment to make the interception a passing move in rugby so it's again slightly less open because they've got an idea of what they're going to do they've got a pattern that they're going to do but the difference is the defenders on the other side might do something different to how it's happened in practice and so that they may have to slightly adapt hold the ball slightly longer make the path slightly higher make the pass slightly earlier make the path slightly faster so there are slight differences when it comes to that although it's a set move it's still relatively open because the defense have a factor in that play next one's called basic and complex skills so let's talk about basic at this end first basic skills are ones that are relatively easy to do often you'll talk them first when you're learning a sport so you might learn how to stop the ball in football use the inside of your foot you'll then probably learn how to do a simple instep pass in football in netball you might learn how to do a chess pass from standing still so they're relatively simple basic skills there's not there's not a lot of moving parts to perform those skills and you're not under a lot of pressure to often complete those skills so the pressure in the scenario during the game is often quite low and therefore you can complete the skill relatively easy now at the other end you've got skills that are difficult to perform require lots of body part movements they're done quite quickly and you might be under quite a bit of pressure when trying to perform those skills basic and complex skills okay so there's a continuum got basic skills at one end we've got complex skills at the far side now for an experienced performer some skills will come really easy because they've done them so much but you almost need to think okay when i'm learning the skills in that sport which ones did i learn first which ones are maybe slightly easier all the way up to the ones that are more difficult then maybe you can't really do that well so it's probably likely that they're the more complex skill so in our basic end we've got simple standing chest pass in basketball quite simple there's nobody in the way we can get the ball straight to our player it should be relatively easy to do if we're doing a standing one we're only really using our arms to propel the ball now on the far side we've got a football overhead kick now the ball is probably moving fast through the air the players got to move their feet to get into position they've got to adjust how they're going to jump they've got to judge the flight of the ball they've then got to get into a good takeoff position they've got to use their arms to gain momentum to get up they've got to get to the right height and then they've got to use their agility to move quickly to change direction to be able to go into that position to play an overhead kick and then still try and get accuracy because it's normally a shot on goal so that's why that one is a complex skill now our far end we've also got running a young age in a toddler it looks really complicated but then you soon get groups of it and running essentially becomes quite a natural skill of moving your legs and arms sighting is another one again people have to learn how to cycle and it can seem pretty tricky if you can remember that far back when you learn to cycle it's not that simple to learn but as soon as you can gain your balance the actual skill of turning the pedals over and steering are relatively basic and at the far end our complex we've got this overhead kick we've got an indian dribbling horse and moving the ball from side to side quickly maybe moving in and out of players it's a really quite tricky skill to do because you're moving quickly with your legs you're having to use both hands to manipulate the stick and to be able to direct the ball in and around people and then the smashing tennis because you've got to get your feet right a bit like an overhead kick the first thing you've got to do is going to get really into the correct position you've got to set yourself the ball's probably coming out of the air the wind might be affecting the flight of the ball so you've got to keep doing small adjustments and you've got to time the swing of the racket perfectly to hit the ball and hit it into the correct part of the call now the last continuum is called low organization and high organization skills now this is probably the most tricky so when it comes to an exam you've got to know certain things you've got to use the word subroutines and i'll explain those in a minute and you've got to know about a little bit more about coaching because these really come down to how a skill is coached now low organization skills at one end they're really simple for a coach to teach because they can teach a little bit of the skill on its own so for example in swimming when you're learning front crawl as a beginner or even as an advanced if the coach wants to work on one little bit let's say the arm action they could isolate one arm using a float they could isolate the legs using a pull buoy and just literally work on one arm coming over the top focusing on maybe one part of a weakness now in a beginner they're going to work on just trying to hone the skill in an advanced person they can isolate it and really work on one bit of the weakness now just by doing one arm action the person can propel themselves in the pull still and still be doing some swimming they can do part of the technique and just focus on that now at the other end of the scale you've got high organization skills now these ones have what we call very few subroutines they almost have to be performed all at once so for example if you're doing a trampolining and you were doing a somersault and trampolining it's very hard to do a half a somersault or a quarter because you're gonna land really awkwardly you've almost got to do the whole thing all at once and each time you practice to improve you've got to do that whole thing each time and change little bits on your own while you're in the air if i go back to my swimming example the person the coach could develop different parts of the skill lesson to lessen and work on arm action you could work on breathing they can work on legs all separately now to do a forward roll or a somersault you've almost got to work on the whole skill all at once which makes it a lot more difficult to teach so this is the low and high organization skills continuum low organization skills at one end and we've got high organization skills at the other so low organization skills are easy to break down they've got sub routines that are clear and can be practiced in isolation whereas high organization skills their sub routines can't be broken down as easily and often need to be practiced as a whole skill so we've got swimming has a low organization skills because you can isolate different body parts and practice one part in isolation you can practice one arm in isolation by holding a float you've got a set shot in basketball where you can use and practice different sub routines so you could practice the one arm action you could practice two arm action you could do it from no knees bent you could add the knee bending you can get your stance correct you can break that down quite easily and then triple jump although just quite a difficult skill overall to complete actually it has distinct sub routines the run up the hop the step and the jump and each bit can be practiced in isolation so you could just practice hopping on its own you could practice your rub into your hop you could practice just hop and then step it's really easily broken down and then you can put it back together all just one hole at the other end you've got high diving now because it's fast moving and the whole skills don't have many sub routines it's really hard to practice bits in isolation it's hard to practice half a somersault for example cartwheels also would look a bit messy if you practiced a small part of a cartwheel it could result in injury so you've got to learn the skill as a whole and the last bit is golf swing now the golf swing although you possibly could do it slowly and you could break down maybe the back swing actually to practice the whole swing from the backswing and through the ball it's very hard to chop it into pieces and cut it into subroutines you've always got to practice the whole thing all at the same time so in an exam the kind of questions they're going to get asked you they're going to give you maybe an example of a skill and you're going to have to decide where it is on those continuums they might ask specifically is it a basic or a complex skill is it an open or a closed skill they might ask is it a low or a high organization skill they might leave it a bit more open-ended than that they might ask you to try classifying it using two or three of those continuums okay that'd make it a little bit more tricky but each skill could be put on all three of those lines in a longer answer question you might get asked a little bit about the coaching of those skills how a coach might use things like feedback and guidance as well to kind of coach these skills but also taking into account whether they're a basic or complex whether a high or a low organization so if you want to learn a bit more about feedback or guidance check out the video one on feedback and one on guidance check those out and i'll leave a playlist at the end so you can you can have access to those as well i hope you enjoyed this best of luck i'll try and get another video as soon as possible