Originally posted by lazs2
Ah takes a lot of skills that have nothing to do with hand eye co-ordination...
lazs
Hand-eye coordination is a fine motor skill as opposed to a gross motor skill. In AH, one must be able to have basic gross motor skills(holding one's head up, balancing upright in a chair), and fine motor skills such as hand-eye coordination and foot-eye coordination(if pedals are used), as opposed to ping-pong where a player must use advanced gross motor skills such as standing up and walking as well. You seem to be associating fine motor skills with sports that also involve advanced gross motor skills as if using advanced gross motor skills makes that game need more advanced fine motor skills. This is simply not the case. AH requires three skills:
*critical thinking
(Critical thinking consists of the mental process of analyzing and evaluating statements or propositions that have been offered as true. It includes a process of reflecting upon the specific meaning of statements, examining offered evidence and reasoning, in order to form a judgment.
Critical thinkers can gather information from verbal or written expression, reflection, observation, experience and reasoning. Critical thinking has its basis in intellectual criteria that go beyond subject-matter divisions and which include: clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, logic, significance and fairness.)
*gross motor skill
(Gross motor skills include lifting one's head, rolling over, sitting up, balancing, crawling, and walking. Gross motor development usually follows a pattern. Generally large muscles develop before smaller ones. Thus, gross motor development is the foundation for developing skills in other areas (such as fine motor skills). Development also generally moves from top to bottom. The first thing a baby usually learns is to control its head.)
*fine motor skill
(Fine motor skills include the ability to manipulate small objects, transfer objects from hand to hand, and various hand-eye coordination tasks. Fine motor skills may involve the use of very precise motor movement in order to achieve an especially delicate task. Some examples of fine motor skills are using the pincer grasp (thumb and forefinger) to pick up small objects, cutting, coloring and writing, and threading beads. Fine motor development refers to the development of skills involving the smaller muscle groups.)
If you want to compare ping-pong and AH, you are not comparing hand-eye coordination skills, as the fine motor skills used in AH are much more advanced, you are comparing a game(ping-pong) that involves advanced gross motor skills to one(AH) that only needs minimal gross motor skills. Now, if you want to compare ping-pong and AH in fine motor skills, specifically hand-eye coordination, AH requires much more advanced skill than ping-pong. That is to say, pushing a button with your finger is a much more advanced skill than gripping a paddle. Also, twisting a twisty stick is a much more advanced skill than swinging your arm. Why is this so? When studying the amount of manipulation invovled in the two skills I described above used in AH, it is known that the use of more muscles to perform a task, involves more advanced motor development. The more muscles used and the more precise the task has to be, reflects the degree of the motor skill involved.
Typing dwarfs ping-pong in hand-eye coordination by the way!
On a lighter note, it is no wonder why they had Forrest Gump's character playing ping pong instead of AH! hee hee
Mark
