Year 10 - Physical education
Shot
Non-examined assessment: athletics practical
Study Hub
Study Guides
This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
This unit provides pupils with the knowledge and opportunity to replicate skills in isolation and in performance scenarios across all athletic disciplines. As a popular individual sport offered by many pupils it will cover sprinting, middle distance, jumping, shot put and javelin events.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to send the shot as far as you possibly can, maintaining a legal technique throughout.
Key Notes
- Move: sending the shot requires an explosive 'corkscrew' sequence from knee to hips to chest.
- Move: sit the shot in the fingers to ensure 'clean palm, dirty neck' and the elbow high to push behind the ball.
- Think: self-talk in the moments prior to throwing can help increase focus and performance.
- Feel: commitment to executing the put with maximum force will ensure each thrower's maximal result.
- Connect: using good communication when helping a peer to improve technical errors will increase their chance of success.
Vocabulary To Learn
- corkscrew: a spiral motion in which body parts move one after the other
- explosive: rapid and forceful application of power during the throw
- push: the action required to send a shot safely and legally
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils often throw the shot by leading with the elbow rather than push it with the elbow following behind the shot, which can sometimes lead to pain and injury, especially to the wrist.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: sending the shot requires an explosive 'corkscrew' sequence from knee to hips to chest. Move: sit the shot in the fingers to ensure 'clean palm, dirty neck' and the elbow high to push behind the ball.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'corkscrew'
a spiral motion in which body parts move one after the other.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils often throw the shot by leading with the elbow rather than push it with the elbow following behind the shot, which can sometimes lead to pain and injury, especially to the wrist. Correction: Emphasise the need to push the shot by extending the arm and not trying to bring the shot behind the head to throw. Replace shot with lighter weighted balls (medicine) if necessary to avoid injury while the technique is being learned.
More Lessons In This Unit
Browse all guides in the Year 10 Physical education guide library.