Practice Types

Practice Types

1. Part Practice

   • Good for low organisational skills
   • Skill is broken into parts and practiced individually
   • A good example is a tennis serve as the parts are good to practise as individual parts.
   • Good for dangerous skills

2. Whole Practice

   • Practice the skill as a whole
   • Good for high organisational skills that are complex
   • Not very good for dangerous skills
   • Best for skills like cycling as it can't be split up

3. Part progressive

   • Works by A, B, then AB C ABC D ABCD etc
   • Best for skills that are serial like a gymnastics routine as it enables the performer to easily chain bits together like they would have to in real life.
   • Involves the chaining of skills together to get a feel for parts of the skill and as a whole.

4. Whole-Part-Whole

   • This is when you practice the skill as a whole and then break it down to correct parts of it and then put it back together.
   • Works for nearly every skill except continuous skills as they can't be broken down very easily
   • Most commonly used type of practice