Motor skills with the ball

Aim: This study aims at searching for specific skills related to the ball control through the use of the feet. The landmark sports have been football, which, above all others, is linked to the use of the ball through our feet and rhythmic gymnastics implying, within the study of the body effort, the use of other parts of the body and, therefore, also the feet. The test has been submitted to Suism students of Turin attending the course of Skill Structuring. Method: The two-month test has been developed in three main phases. If the first has been dedicated to the research of foot sensitization situations considered in the different segments, the second has examined the specific elements of the ball (knocking a ball about, rolling, throwing) both in individual situation and application to the group. Finally, the third phase has been aimed at organizing and classifying the skills according to the schemes and the parameters mentioned in the bibliography. Results: About 40 specific motor skills have been pointed out by the students, distributed in a taxonomy including 10 items, referable to basic elements useful in an initial phase of introduction to sport. Youth sport, strictly linked to the structuring of motor skills, is increasingly making use of transversal competences. Two main reasons: the path of introduction to sport should take into consideration the growth and the establishment of solid common bases (multilateralism) in order to enter and develop a motor speech aiming at one discipline.