Coordinative skills overview
Responsiveness: Ability to react as quickly as possible to environmental signals and convert them into motor action. Ability to adapt: Ability during a sporting activity to adapt or redefine the movement plan due to a changing situation. Orientation ability: Ability to adapt adequately to spatial conditions or changes.
Ability to differentiate: Ability to differentiate fine motor coordination during individual phases using the kinaesthetic analyzer. Coupling ability: Ability to coordinate individual partial body movements in time and space in order to achieve the target movement in the best possible way. Balance ability: Ability to keep one’s own body, partial bodies or objects in balance. Rhythmization ability: Ability to adapt one’s own physical movement to a given rhythm. This topic might also be of interest to you: Movement education
Training of coordinative skills
For the training of coordinative skills there are some aspects that should be considered. It should be noted that in childhood the training of coordinative skills clearly takes precedence over the training of conditional skills. The foundations are laid in childhood, and experiences missed there are much harder to make up for in adulthood.
In the training of coordinative skills, there is an endless variety of movement experiences and patterns that allow children to develop coordinative skills naturally. In addition, such exercises promote the ability to learn and therefore one should avoid early specialization. Independence is another point that comes into focus here.
Movement tasks and exercises used in the training of the coordinative abilities ensure that the children experience and discover many things independently and self-determined. Independence is encouraged and this also has a positive effect on motivation. The coordinative skills are the basis for later learning complex movement patterns and movements.
For this reason, it is important not to neglect the training of the coordinative abilities and instead to make sure that the coordinative abilities are kept at a good level. The advantage of training and training with coordinative skills is that even when the exercise movements are mastered, the training can continue. In addition, one complicates his coordinative exercise with an integrated fitness training (additional tasks) and thus receives a new range of variation possibilities.
It is therefore very important to train the coordinative skills especially in childhood, as this can be seen as the basis for later tasks. Children who have enjoyed a good and effective training of their abilities will have much less difficulty later in complex sports and games when it comes to learning complex sports motor movements and sports games.But even in adulthood, the coordinative skills can still be trained and thus improvements can be achieved. However one learns as an adult no longer so well, as as a child and the physical and mental conditions for mastering the task fall then more heavily to the adults, who were trained as a child not so comprehensively to the coordinative abilities, like others.
