Foundational/Fundamental Movement Skills

To get athletes physically literate

Take advantage of the “Skill Hungry Years”

Get the athlete’s excited & confident in their bodies & competent in basic movements

Link fundamental movement skill to fundamental sport skills – If you can … you will

FMS Goals

Understand fundamental skill

Identify movement skills and design developmental age appropriate progressions

Understand progressions for each component

Identify key teaching points and appropriate cues

Goals - FMS Workshop

Coaching Excellence

Expect Excellence

Demand Excellence

Never Forget

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but

a habit." Aristotle

Make Excellence A

Habit

The Coaching ProcessThe process of coaching is principle driven, has a foundation in pedagogy, it is supported by science , forged in experience, proven & tested in the competitive arena.

“A great teacher is one who realizes that he himself is also a student and whose goal is not to dictate the answers, but to stimulate

his students creativity enough so that they go out and find the answers themselves.”

Herbie-Hancock

Systems can

not be understood sim

ply by understanding the parts

-

the interactions am

ong the parts and the consequences of these

interactions are

equally significant.

Connecting the Dots

Periodization

Progression

Motor Learning/Skill Acquisition

Theory

CreativityBiomotor Ability

Development

Fundamental Skill Development

Postural InfluencesAsymmetry & Dominance

Sport Specific Adaptations

Lifestyle

Physical Literacy

The ability to express levels of force production, force reduction and stabilization in general movement – Walking,

Running, Lunging, Bending, Pushing, Pulling, Climbing, Rotating, Reaching, and Bracing

Physical Literacy

Physical Competence

Specific Sport Skill/Technique

Sport Performance

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Physical Literacy (Movement Vocabulary)

Fundamental Movement Skills Before Specific Sport Skills

What shapes can you make?

What shapes do you need to make?

Body is a Dynamic System

The coach is the facilitator instead of the informant

The coach identifies & manipulates key constraints to guide the athlete’s search for

optimal movement solutions

What - FMS

Why - Provide a deep Solid Foundation of Movement Skills

How - Honor 3P’s (Practical/Personal/Proactive)

When - Periodization

Who - Developing Athletes

Locomotor Skills

Stability Skills

Manipulative Skills

Locomotor Skills

Crawling Walking & Running JumpingHoppingLeaping (Bounding) SkippingSliding (Sideways) Galloping (Forward)RollingClimbing

Skills where the body moves through space

Stability Skills

Bending Stretching Twisting Pushing Pulling Swinging Balancing

Movements executed from a relatively stationary position using a stable base of support

Manipulative Skills

Ball RollingThrowing Catching Kicking Striking Volleying and Dribbling

Skills Used in Handling Objects

Flexibility

Agility/Coordination

Strength

Power

Biomotor Abilities

Speed

Endurance

FMS GBA SBAFundamental Movement Skills Generalized Biomotor Abilities Specific Biomotor Abilities

Motor skill learned with an internal focus with concurrent specific knowledge about the skill performance.

Less resilient under psychological and physiological fatigue and tend to interfere with normal autonomic processing of the motor schema.

Less durable or robust when a fast response is needed

Explicit Learning

External focus of attention (focus on movement effect)

Implicit Learning

Verbal feedback & direction is minimal

Realize task and find a solution to get it done

Learners are active participants in the process

Explicit Learning

Implicit Learning

Finding a Balance

Pedagogical Considerations

Experiences & activities APPROPRIATE to the athlete’s development level

Challenge is to match content and training to the athletes ability level

Instructions/Directions

Specific

Concrete

Sequential

Observable

Emphasize what to do

Correct Don’t Critique

Text

Focus on the solution not the problem

Coach the correction

PracticeDon’t try to replicate the game, distort it!

QualityA Measure of

Perfect!

Give the athlete increasingly complex movement problems to solve

Stable/Predictable >>>Unstable/Chaotic

ProgressionWhole - Part - Whole

Increase frequency of workouts in a week

Increase duration

Increase number of exercises w/o increasing duration of workout

Progression Steps

Green eggs and ham uses 50 different words and only one of those words has more than one syllable!

Shouldn’t we be able to do the same in movement?

Simplicity Yields Complexity

Imagine combining pulling, pushing, reaching bending & squatting into into the movement equivalent of “Green

Eggs and Ham”

Use your knowledge, imagination and creativity to grow robust adaptable athletes capable of solving the most

complex moment problems

Competence

Confidence

Develop Two C’s

Develop task appropriate cues

Formulating Movement Problems

Use how to use constraints

Learn to use explicit & implicit Learning

Want to do

Nice to Do

Need to Do

Exploring Possibilities - Middle School

Developing Expertise - High School

Building a Foundation - Elementary School

Step by Step - Earning the Right to Progress

Effective Exercise

Progression Variety Precision in Execution

Available Time

Available Space

Available Personnel

Administrative Considerations

GroupingAbility

Discipline/Event

Heterogeneous

Homogenous

Individualization

Training Age

High Maintenance Athlete

Injury Prone or Post Injured Athlete

Evaluating Results

Testing = Training Training = Testing

Every exercise, each rep is an opportunity to evaluate

Gambetta Sports Training Systems

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