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Closed Skill Sport

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Closed Skill Sport
A self-paced sport—e.g., golf, running—in which the environment is stable, unchanging and predictable; closed skill sports tend to require internally-directed attentional focus


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Examples: Golf, bowling, archery, most track and field events, competitive weightlifting, and tee-ball all have the requisites of closed skill sports.
Specifically, an open skilled team sport, in which the outcome is the product of interactive performances in a frequently changing environment, represents a differ ent context where the nature of the goals set and the perceptions of control may differ from those of an individual, closed skill sport environment examined by Jones and Hanton (1996).
 
 
 
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