Year 10 - Physical education
Sprint performance
Non-examined assessment: athletics practical
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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 sprint a full race distance adapting effectively to different phases.
Key Notes
- Move: use a sprint start to power yourself into the drive phase and accelerate quickly towards your maximal speed.
- Move: during the drive phase use effective technique to move with maximal possible speed.
- Think: understanding which phase the race is in and adapting technique to the phase will maximise your performance.
- Feel: being determined, even during the final phase when fatigued, will help to achieve the best possible time.
- Connect: congratulate all your opponents at the end of the race to demonstrate mutual respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- maximal: the best possible performance with maximum effort
- phase: a particular stage of the race performance
- fatigue: decline in physical performance as the body reaches its limits
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils will tire during the latter phases of a 100m sprint race and may withdraw their effort because fatigue is setting in and they expected to perform at maximal throughout.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: use a sprint start to power yourself into the drive phase and accelerate quickly towards your maximal speed. Move: during the drive phase use effective technique to move with maximal possible speed.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'maximal'
the best possible performance with maximum effort.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils will tire during the latter phases of a 100m sprint race and may withdraw their effort because fatigue is setting in and they expected to perform at maximal throughout. Correction: Fatigue will always feature in the final stages if the athlete is giving it their best. Recognising this by remaining determined to finish and maintaining technique will result in the best possible time.
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