Fundamental Movement Skills are the building blocks required to form more generalised, specific sports skills. They are the physical equivalent of spelling and grammar in English, or multiplication and division in Maths. Without mastery of the basic fundamental skills, children will have little to link together to form more complex movement patterns later in life.
The Australian school system have practised and promoted Fundamental Movement Skills for years. Dependent on where you look and which authority you talk to there can be as little as four essential skills to many as 22. At Healthy Heroes we like to keep it simple and promote the development of 12 of the most common, and in our opinion, most important fundamental skills:
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Sprint Run
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Skip
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Hop
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Dodge
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Leap
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Vertical Jump
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Underarm Throw
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Overarm throw
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Catch
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Forearm Strike
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Kick
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Balance