Rhythmic ability

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Rhythmic ability is a term used in sports motor skills . This describes the ability to control an external or internal rhythm and to control one's own movements according to this rhythm. While in everyday use this means, for example, the adaptation of one's own movement to music (e.g. when dancing), sports motor skills with this term specifically refers to the reproduction of an external rhythm and the transfer of an internalized rhythm to one's own movements. In sport, this ability is important when it comes to achieving performance that requires rhythmic movements. Examples of orientation to an externally prescribed rhythm are sports in which music or sounds are used, such as figure skating , rhythmic gymnastics or team rowing , or sports in which the equipment used determines the rhythm, for example hurdles . An implementation of an internalized rhythm is necessary, for example, in sports in which a rhythmic process is necessary to reach a target or starting point precisely, for example when starting a long or high jump .

literature

  • Kurt Meinel, Günter Schnabel: Movement theory - sports motor skills: Outline of a theory of sports motor skills from an educational point of view . Meyer & Meyer, 2007, ISBN 9783898992459 , p. 227f.