The ABC's of movement literacy

摘要

Is the strongest person usually the best athlete?Who is a better athlete the body builder or basketball player (e.g. Michael Jordan). Many people can lift heavy objects, but they are not good athletes. Why? Because they lack quickness, speed, power, or the ability to change direction rapidly. Another example is from track and field. Why do you think the world's fastest runners rarely make good American football running backs or wide receivers or soccer stars? Because they only have straight ahead speed, but lack the power and agility to stop and start or to speedily change directions. An American football player hardly ever runs more than 30 yards at one time. This is why short, powerful bursts of speed define our athletes from football, basketball, baseball, tennis, etc. (Vescovi et al., 2008; Vissing et al., 2008).