Appendix
The Ultimate Matrix – the Learning and Development Continuum
The following matrix document outlines the skills and abilities that are the focus of each LTAD stage. Ultimate skills should be addressed as a sequential learning continuum that includes the following stages: introduce, develop, consolidate, refine and maintain. These terms are defined below.
This matrix provides a sport curriculum for Ultimate – a framework that structures coach education that will influence player development. Each skill and ability has a specified stage that identifies a timeframe for its inclusion in the overall training program based on the player’s stage of development. The following pages provide a matrix that includes a progression of technical, physical, tactical, and psychological skills and abilities. It is important that coaches and athletes review these skills and abilities while keeping in mind that an integrated training, competition and recovery program is the best way to ensure that there is reinforcement within practice and game environments.
Introduce
Players understand the fundamental movements needed to execute the skill, physical ability or tactic. It is presumed that the skill, tactic or physical ability will continue to be developed in later stages.
Develop
It is through repeated practice of the correct performance of the skill, ensuring that the basic execution becomes consistent. Performing in a variety of conditions and situations.
Consolidate
The player is able to combine a number of skills and movements in a coordinated way to execute a tactic and has a high success rate.
Refine/Maintain
The player is able to combine a skill with other skills and integrate it into aspects of the game. The athlete begins to develop his/her own unique and creative playing style and has the ability to link one skill with another in training and under pressure in a competitive situation. The player can easily perform the technical or tactical and no longer needs to work on it.
* An asterix is used to indicate the possibility to progress to the next stage within a skill in either the early or late part of the LTAD stage. An asterix pre- means early introduction while an asterix after indicates moving on to the next level if a player(s) are ready later in their stage.
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