Cognitive skill is a skill performed by an athlete when they have multiple decisions to make but they have to make only one of them. It is very important for the athlete to make best and most effective decisions in order to gain an advantage or score a point.

Perceptual skills are used when there's stimuli used by the brain. This can depend on the experience of the athlete and their concentration/attention ability. For example, Matt could play George in a padel match. If George runs for the ball near the net, Matt has to be paying attention to whether George is going to hit a smash shot or a drop shot to make Matt react and move quicker.

Motor skill requires control in the muscles. It involves movement with the athlete's muscles with the intent to perform the skill they want to do. For example, Christain Murphy is running to the net as fast as he can to return the drop shot his opponent did but stopping in time to not touch or go over the net, which will conclude that his opponent will get the point as he touched the net with either his racket or himself.

Open skills is when the athlete is always adapting to the scenario. For example a padel players have to adapt to player players shots. When Christian Murphy performs a drop shot so Matt has to run and react quickly to reach for the ball but if the opponent hits the ball back Christian will hit a a smash shot Matt has to adapt to that shot and run to the back of the court.

Closed skill is a pre-learned skill which the athlete can follow the same steps every time. For example, Agustin Tapia while have the same routine every time for his serve.

Fine Skills involves small movement from one body part. For example, in padel, players want to only move their wrist and arms to serve the ball to the other side of the court.

Fine Skills involves small movement from one body part. For example, in padel, players want to only move their wrist and arms to serve the ball to the other side of the court. As you can see George performing a drop shot because only his arm need to move to perform this skill.

Gross movement involves large muscles groups working together to perform a skill. For example, as you can see Matt jumps up to perform a smash shot using number of large muscle groups working together to perform the skill well.

Continuous is when is doesn't have a start or an end, keep a rally going for a long period of time. For example, a rally in padel. Shown above with Matt.

Discrete has a clear beginning and end being controlled. In padel a discrete movement will have a clear beginning and a clear end just like a forehand pass. The beginning will be preparing for the shot and the end will be hitting the ball over the net.

Serial Skills have more than one discrete skill to produce a fluent movement. For example, Matt performing a serve then going straight into the game hitting either a backhand or a forehand.

Self-Paced skills will be the performer controlling the pace of the shot or match. For example, George slowing down the tempo of the game with a drop shot to give him time to set himself back to the centre of the court.

Externally Paced is something external interferes with the pace of the game or shot. For example either Georges opponent changing the shot to a smash shot to the pace of the match will get faster.