Skills for football and Futsal

A skill is the ability to produce a combination of movements using a variety of muscles and joints to produce a co-ordinated action.
"The learned ability to bring about pre-determined results with the maximum certainty often with minimum outlay of time or energy or both"
-Skills are learned

• Continuous skill- Has no clear beginning and end. (cycling)
• Discrete skill- Has a clear beginning and end. (Shotput)
• Serial skill- A series of discrete skills. (Triple jump)
• Open skill- A skill affected by a changing environment. (Pass in football)
• Closed Skill- A skill that you are in control of and is not affected by the environment. (Forward roll)
• Self-paced skill- Where a performer controls the timing of the execution of the skill. (Tennis serve)
• Externally paced- Where the timing of the skill is determined by what is happening in the environment. (Pass in rugby)
• Gross skills- Involves large muscle groups and movement from the whole body. (Slam dunk)
• Fine skills- Involves small movements of specific parts of the body. (finger tip save in football)