basic patterns of movement

Anatoma

2022

We explain what are the basic patterns of movement, their function and what are locomotive, non-locomotive and object movements.

Each sport can be broken down into a set of basic movement patterns.

What are basic movement patterns?

In physical education Y sport, is known as basic movement patterns or fundamental movement patterns to certain types of exercises that test the skills most basic or primordial of the Body human, that is, those that are part of more complex forms of movement.

Thus, any complex motor skills, such as practicing a sport concrete (to play football, for example) can be decomposed into a set of much simpler basic forms (running, jumping, kicking), which constitute fundamental movement patterns of the human body.

The basic movement patterns can be of different types, and are classified according to their nature in:

  • Locomotor movements, that is, those that involve walking (that is, locomotion) or displacement body, in its many different speeds and forms, whether it is walking, jogging, running, sliding, jumping, crawling, rolling, throwing or climbing.
  • Non-locomotor movements, that is, those that do not involve body movement in the spacesuch as swaying, leaning, twisting, stretching, or bending.
  • Manipulation of objects, when an object other than the human body is involved in the movement, with which the latter interacts in some way, as in the case of kicking, throwing, catching, hitting, pushing or lifting.

In most sports, these basic patterns are combined in different situations to perform more complex tasks, such as, in the case of soccer, running around the court with the ball at your feet, then kicking it so that someone else jumps and hit into the goal, and even if the goalkeeper throws himself trying to stop it, score a goal.

In this way, each sport thus implies a diverse set of basic movement patterns, and physical education includes different exercises to put them into practice, especially during the individual's school time.

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