Sports skills, organised into families
The skills across sport are easier to understand as families — foundational, object-control, racket-sport, endurance and more. Each family groups real skills in a sensible learning order and links to the sports that use them.
Explore the families
Each is a curated group of real skills — a way to see how they fit together.
Foundational skills
The base skills almost every sport rests on — move, balance and control before anything else.
4 skillsObject-control skills
Handling a ball or implement — controlling, receiving, passing and moving it with intent.
5 skillsLocomotor skills
Moving the body efficiently — running, sprinting, changing pace and getting into position.
4 skillsPrecision skills
Skills where accuracy is everything — placing a serve, a shot, a pass or a set exactly where you want it.
4 skillsTeam-play skills
The skills that make a team work — combining, covering and communicating through the ball.
6 skillsRacket-sport skills
The core skills of racket sports — serving, returning, rallying and controlling the net.
5 skillsBall-sport skills
The skills that recur across ball games — control, passing, dribbling, shooting and defending.
6 skillsEndurance-sport skills
The skills of going the distance — pacing, breathing and efficient technique in running, cycling and swimming.
6 skillsCoordination & timing skills
Skills that depend on doing the right thing at the right instant — jumping, spiking, heading and rebounding.
5 skillsAquatic skills
The water-specific skills of swimming — the strokes, breathing and staying comfortable in the water.
4 skillsSee how skills fit together
Understand the families, then dive into individual skills or follow a sport's learning path.