The role of fundamental motor skills in children

Abstract

Basic motor skills appear in children from the earliest age and form the basis for learning and improving other more complex movements in sports and physical activities. These skills include various forms such as movement of certain parts of the body or holding a certain position (non-motor skills), coordinated and fluid movement by displacement of the general centre of mass from one place to another (locomotor skills), and manipulating or directing or guiding a object with his arms or legs, using or without using implement (manipulative skills).