There are three main types of motor skills: locomotor, nonlocomotor, and manipulative. Each has specific sills associated with it. Locomotor skills are actions that move the body from one space to another.
What are the 3 movement skills?
Fundamental movement skills can be categorised into three groups: body management skills, locomotor skills and object control skills.
What are the movement skills?
The fundamental movement skills to be developed through Health and Physical Education include:
- locomotor and non-locomotor skills — rolling, balancing, sliding, jogging, running, leaping, jumping, hopping, dodging, galloping and skipping.
- object control skills — bouncing, throwing, catching, kicking, striking.
