Physical factors like skills, fitness, and tactics impact sports performance. Skills include having a large repertoire of techniques, creativity in solving problems, consistency in execution, and accuracy in directing objects. A diverse repertoire provides strategic options, solves opponents' tactics, and boosts confidence. Creativity surprises opponents and creates advantages. Consistency pressures opponents physically and mentally. Accuracy places opponents under pressure or improves scoring chances. Together, these skills optimize sports performance.

1. Physical Factors
(Skills)
Impacting on Performance

2. Physical Factors
•Skills
•Fitness
•Tactics

3. Physical Factors -Skills
• Skill Repertoire
• Creativity
• Consistency
• Accuracy

4. Skill Repertoire
• The ability to perform the skills required within
an activity is an essential part of performing well.
• A performers skill repertoire is the range of skills
that the performer is able to perform effectively.
• A skilled performer will have a large repertoire of
skills that they can perform to a high standard.

5. Skill Repertoire – Impact on Performance
Having a large repertoire of skills that can be performed
effectively is beneficial as:
• The range of options the performer has in any situation is large
and therefore it is more difficult for opponents to read what is
going to happen.
• It is more difficult for an opponent to cause a performer with a
large repertoire of skills problems as they have a range of options
available to them to successfully solve the problem.
• A performer with a large repertoire of skills is likely to be more
confident as they know that they can perform a range of skills
well.

6. Skill Repertoire Tasks
• When attacking in basketball what skills/techniques do you
think an excellent offensive player will have?
Consider the following feedback given to a performer. Explain
why skill repertoire may have led to the performer getting this
feedback
1 – “Easy to defend against”
2– “Started well but struggled after their opponent changed
their tactic”
3- “Never seemed troubled and was full of confidence”

7. Creativity
• Creativity is the ability to perform unusually, innovatively and
uniquely.
• It can be described as being able to face a problem and create
a solution that is not expected or is different from the normal.
• Being creative can be shown in different ways, such as
tactically or through a series of skills in the activity.

8. Creativity Tasks
1. List as many ways that you can think of that creativity can be
used when performing.
2. Why is it important to be creative when performing?
3. What impact does having a very creative player have on a
team?
4. What impact does a very creative player have on the
opponents?

9. Positive Impacts of Creativity
• Being creative when participating in sport is important as:
• Doing something unexpected can catch an opponent of guard as they
are not prepared for what the performer has done. This could give the
performer an advantage such as:
• Losing or getting past a marker
• Creating space and time for themselves or team mates
• Putting an opponent under pressure
• Scoring a point/goal
• Being creative can help a performer find solutions to a problem.
• A creative golfer might come up with a solution when faced with a very
difficult shot.
• A creative tennis player may come up with an unusual but effective way of
dealing with a big serving opponent.
• A performer who is creative will keep an opponent under pressure as
they will not know what to expect next and therefore will find it
difficult to prepare.

10. Consistency
• Consistency is the ability to perform skills / movements correctly
over and over again. Consistency is key for an effective performance.
Examples
• Consistently getting overhead clears right to the back of your
opponents court.
• Performing a skill such as a free throw with the same technique over
and over again and as a result consistently scoring.
• Getting a fast first serve in in tennis over and over again.
• A midfielder having a very high pass completion percentage

11. Consistency Task
• Choose one of the examples from the previous slide. What
impact will this have on:
• The Performer
• Tactics (physical)
• Mentally/Emotionally
• The Team (if appropriate)
• The Opponent
• Physically
• Mentally/Emotionally

12. Accuracy
• Accuracy is the ability to direct a ball, shuttle or any
other object used in an activity to a target area with
precision.
• A performer can also demonstrate accuracy by
performing movements with precision so that they look
exactly like a model performance.

13. Accuracy – Impacts on Performance
Performing with accuracy will impact differently depending on
the activity. Examples include:
• Being able to play the shuttle accurately to the back tramlines in
a game of badminton to put your opponent under as much
pressure as possible.
• Placing a penalty flick in hockey accurately to the corner of the
goal to make it as difficult as possible for the goalkeeper to save.

14. Performing technique accurately is also extremely important.
The following examples give some reasons why.
• A diver is required to show excellent accuracy in their execution
of skills in order to improve the score they awarded by the
judges.
• A 100m sprinter tries to perfect accurate technique to ensure
that they are as efficient as possible when running to decrease
the time it takes for them to complete the race.
• A basketball player tries to perfect accurate technique so that
even late in the game when they are tired they are still able to
score jump shots due to the effectiveness of their technique
Accuracy – Impacts on Performance

15. Accuracy Task
• Discus the negative impacts of a performance that lacks
accuracy. This can be in relation to a variety of activities.
• When discussing consider the impact on:
• The Individual
• The Team
• The Opponent
• The Outcome