Sport Unit 8- Assignment 2
Topic of assignment: Explore practices used to develop skills, techniques and tactics for performance.
Distinction grade achieved for this assignment.
Unit 8- Assignment 2: Investigating coaching practices to develop sporting skill, technique and
tactical ability.
Skill development strategies refer to the capacity and ability obtained through systematic,
sustained and deliberate plans to enhance the production of movements using the varieties
of muscles and joints to construct coordinated actions. Enabling of progression and
encouragement of participants in sport are the main purpose of skill development
strategies. For example, a session plan guarantees the overall layout of a session or game
and gives a prediction of how the session may play out. Organisational skills benefit
performers and allows the display of good coaching abilities.
Technique development strategies signifies the scheme of improvement for the methods in
which skills are presented by athletes. Technical development strategies are beneficial in
promoting high performances and the reduction of injuries. For example, when a football is
dribbled with the correct technique in football, the risks for injuries will be decreased.
The plan for the successful use of skills needed by players for achievement is conveyed as
tactical development strategies. Tactical development strategies are play an important such
as opposition strengths and weaknesses, systems of play and the player’s weaknesses and
strengths. These need to be considered if a positive outcome considered if a positive
outcome is to be pursued for the improvements of performance by the participants. For
example, communication skills. The use of verbal communication can be used in netball
when agreeing on who receives the centre pass. Non-verbal communication such as
nodding or pointing can be used in basketball when deciding whom to guard on a fast break.
Section 1 and 2:
Isolated practices enable individuals to focus of on a specific skill or technique at a certain
time before progressing onto another. These practices are used and conceived for the
development of tactics, techniques and skills during coaching sessions. Used by coaches
with the intent of introducing techniques and skills that have not fully been conquer. This is
mainly for intermediates and beginners but can later be used to rehearse and refine the
technique and skills of the performers as their ability amplifies. An isolated practice for
skills, techniques or tactics are often drill or exercise which breaks the sessions techniques
or tactics into parts. An example might be in volleyball when a coach is trying to improve a
long serve. The coach might ask an athlete to repetitively serve to a specific area over the
net while giving feedback. The practice is therefore deemed as ‘isolated’ because the serve
is never returned. The skills and techniques of performers are developed with isolated
practices when a coach continually work with groups of players to ensure that they
understand the tactics to use during situations. When a team has mastered a tactic, the
isolated practice may be used further to refine the tactic’s application. The coach may then
progress the coaching session by asking the performers to apply the tactic in a conditioned
practice. For example, in team sports such as rugby union a coach will replicate a particular
component of the game like a line-out.
In my past coaching session, isolated practices were used during the warm-up drill which
was hitting balls against the wall. The practice developed footwork skills. The development
, is important in the use of effective and organised footwork to provide superb speed and
agility which enables the player to move around the badminton court swiftly and return
every shuttlecock. The shuttlecock can move extremely fast, so the player must move faster
than the shuttlecock to be able to hit it.
Conditioned practices are used by coaches to recreate elements of specific competitive
situations during coaching sessions. These practices are for performers to master correct
applications of skills, technique and tactics after rehearsing them. The performer can apply
the skills, technique and tactics in specific competitive situations. For example, practicing a
line-out in rugby and the subsequent moving of the ball back into aggressive play. This
means the coach might want to split the team into teams with defence and attack players
and play a game for a minute after each line-out. Each time the players can practice with
different scenarios. During conditioned practices, a coach will often stop the practice to
coach the performers providing specific guidance feedback and reinforcement to shape
their behaviour should the situation arise in a competitive situation. A coach would normally
only use conditioned practices for performers who already have a good understanding of a
sport and who have mastered all or most of the sport’s skills and techniques. Often these
practices are used to shape tactics and refine a performer's knowledge of when a player
should use a particular skill to support a particular tactic. Conditioned practices often have
special rules or restrictions to support development in a natural, game-like scenario. For
example, in basketball a coach may only use half a basketball court and play three attackers
against two defenders. This practice is used when coaching an attacking play to
demonstrate to the attackers how to apply appropriate skills techniques and tactics in a
particular situation.
Competitive situations are caused by coaches in coaching sessions to rehearse the tactics
the coach has taught the sports performers throughout their coaching sessions. Real-life
competitive situations are mimicked which means following the usual rules or laws and
regulations of the sport. Competitive situations are used by coaches to provide performers
with the opportunity to apply skills and techniques developed and previously mastered in a
competitive situation and further challenge performers in coaching sessions. A coach will
often use a competitive situation to observe components of a performers or team’s
performance and observe their offensive and defensive ability.
When a performer is attacking, they are classed as using skills and techniques and applying
tactics offensively. The offensive team or performer is attempting to attack their opponents
to gain advantage in a competitive situation. In team sports designated players are given
positions to focus on attacking their opponent’s play in an offensive attack. The offensive
performers or teams will use variety of tactics to attack their opponents.
Defensive play is the act of resisting an attack from an opponent. A sports performer or
team will have several skills, technique and tactics which focus on depending in these
situations to overcome the attack. For example, in hockey when defending an attack,
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