What are the specific sports skills?

Judging from the practical implementation of sports training and education, the essence of specialized sports skills is an exclusive ability that is deeply bound to specific sports and cannot be directly transferred across sports. It covers the entire process of perception and judgment, action execution, and tactical decision-making. There is no unified fixed list and it completely follows the specific project.

Many people used to think that special skills meant doing specific standard movements, such as table tennis loops and gymnastics somersaults. In fact, this is only half correct. There is still some controversy over this category in academic circles and first-line training circles. In the traditional classification logic of sports skills, only technical movements unique to the event are considered special skills, and the rest of perception, decision-making, and adaptable physical abilities are classified as general abilities. ； But the practical coaches of the past ten years have long since stopped being so stuck. Those soft abilities that are deeply tied to the project have long been included in the category of special skills. After all, even if you practice the badminton swing to a standard, you will not be able to judge the rotation and landing point of the ball. You will still not be able to catch the ball when you get on the court. This ability to judge the path of the ball is simply not useful in playing tennis. Why is it not considered a special skill?

I encountered a typical example when I led youth basketball training before. There was a kid who was transferred from the sprint team. He could run 100 meters faster than his teammates of the same age by more than 1 second. No one could catch up with him in fast break, but when it came to positional battles, he was stuck when he had to change directions in front of others. Shell, even the side sliding step when defending often steps in the wrong rhythm. This is because the general body can be used, but the special perception and movement skills have not kept up. To put it bluntly, these abilities are unique to basketball and cannot be touched at all when practicing sprinting. They are just special skills.

If you want to make the distinction easier, you can look at the curriculum standards for physical education and health in compulsory education and you will understand. Among the special sports skill categories listed in it, under the major categories of football, basketball, volleyball, track and field, swimming, ice and snow, and martial arts, each corresponding exclusive ability is a special skill, such as tumbling and turning in swimming, lunging and punching in martial arts, and carving and turning in skiing. There is no unified template, and the contents of different projects vary greatly.

Many people tend to confuse special physical fitness with special skills. In fact, front-line training is not so difficult now. For example, marathon runners specialize in uphill cadence control. Would you say it is physical fitness or skill-based? In fact, there is no need to explain it so clearly. As long as it is the core ability that can only be used in this project, it basically falls into the category of specialized skills. After all, training is ultimately for performance on the field, not for academic classification, right.