Skill

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When doing the Triple Jump what kind of skill is it? Is it open, Closed, self Paced, discrete, serial or continuous

-- Carla Booty (101370.3016@compuserve.com.), December 23, 1997

Answers

surely it would classed mainly as a serial skill. A skill made up of many discrete elements, the hop, step and jump. But it also can be classed , but not to the same extreme, as a self paced skill as the performer decides when the skill starts and stops.

-- meurig cundy (mocundy@hotmail.com), February 19, 1998.

I would question the notion that an athlete dictates when a triple jump ends. Surely, gravity dictates when the skill ends.

-- Jonathan Daniels (jonathan.daniels@ccta.ac.uk), July 02, 1998.

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