KINE 3020 : Mosher Readings 1.pdf
30 Dec 2014
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Topic 1: skill: the ability achieve some end result with maximum certainty and minimum time/use of energy, four important features of a skill: Achieve some desired environmental goal by moving (you can t achieve an environmental goal without moving) Meet a performance goal with maximum certainty hits the basket every time. Deciding what to do and where/when to do it. Producing organized muscular activity to generate movements: three components involved in the production of many skills: Postural components provide a platform to support the actions. Body transport components bring the body or limb to the action. Performers in a drt setting are required to respond to only one of several signals presented. Football example: the coach has instructed the qb to throw to a particular receiver even though several others are available: fractionated reaction time (frt) makes it possible to separate cognitive from mechanical processes using surface electromyography (emg). Emg is used to divide rt into two parts:
