Fundamental 10!
By Athletic Skills Model^®

Versatile movement. For a healthy and varied motor development.

Versatile movement is important for fitness, vitality, and health. It lays the foundation for lifelong enjoyment of physical activity.

To support this, the Athletic Skills Model (ASM) introduces the Fundamental 10!. This science-based and practically applicable model consists of ten basic movement skills that are essential for optimal motor development. They are relevant in sports, lifestyle, physical education, and healthcare.

Maintaining balance while supporting, sliding, rotating, riding, floating, and/or hanging.

Engaging in dueling with—and/or pulling, pushing, lifting, raising, carrying, and gripping materials or people.

All forms of movement, such as walking, running, crawling, swimming, cycling, skating, skateboarding, and (water) skiing.

Various forms of jumping, such as high jumping, long jumping, depth jumping, vaulting, skipping rope, or diving.

Rotations along the length, width, and depth axes, such as during somersaults, pivots, swinging on the horizontal bar, or performing cartwheels.

Throwing balls, dribbling, hitting with a racket/stick, fencing, feinting, and (fine) hand-eye coordination.

Passing and shooting balls, dribbling, kicking, feinting, and (fine) eye-foot coordination.

Moving over or on objects, such as wall bars, bouldering, and rope climbing.

Swinging the body through space using the horizontal bar, pole, or ropes.

All movements, packaged into 10 basic movement skills.

All basic movement skills - together the Fundamental 10! - can be performed and practiced in various ways. Sports and games, physical professions, and daily activities typically incorporate a selection of these forms. Do you know which ones?

A healthy and varied exercise programme includes different game and exercise forms from various basic movement skills. This approach leads to better performance and learning outcomes, fewer injuries, enhanced creativity, and more enjoyment, resulting in longer-lasting participation in physical activity.

Maintaining balance while supporting, sliding, rotating, riding, floating, and/or hanging.

Engaging in dueling with—and/or pulling, pushing, lifting, raising, carrying, and gripping materials or people.

All forms of movement, such as walking, running, crawling, swimming, cycling, skating, skateboarding, and (water) skiing.

Various forms of jumping, such as high jumping, long jumping, depth jumping, vaulting, skipping rope, or diving.

Rotations along the length, width, and depth axes, such as during somersaults, pivots, swinging on the horizontal bar, or performing cartwheels.

Throwing balls, dribbling, hitting with a racket/stick, fencing, feinting, and (fine) hand-eye coordination.

Passing and shooting balls, dribbling, kicking, feinting, and (fine) eye-foot coordination.

Moving over or on objects, such as wall bars, bouldering, and rope climbing.

Swinging the body through space using the horizontal bar, pole, or ropes.

All movements, packaged into 10 fundamentals.

All fundamental movement forms from the Fundamental 10! can be performed and practiced in various ways. Sports and games, physical professions, and daily activities typically incorporate a selection of these forms. Do you know which ones?

A healthy and varied exercise program includes different game and exercise forms from various fundamental movement forms. This approach leads to better performance and learning outcomes, fewer injuries, increased creativity, and more enjoyment, resulting in longer-lasting participation in physical activity.

HOW
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Your own top 10!

How does the Fundamental 10! work?

At ASM, it is recommended to use the Fundamental 10! to focus on all 10 basic movement skills in sports, games, activities, professional profiles, or exercise routines.

Through the Fundamental 10!, diverse exercise programmes such as gym classes, training, and vitality programmes can incorporate structure in their planning. When focusing on a single sport or activity, an analysis can be made based on the 10 basic movement skills. Some of these forms are present in a sport, others are not. Often, the forms included are developed in a one-sided manner, and the absent forms receive no attention. Greater variety in movement forms leads to increased diversity and more versatile movement.

Movement education for everyone.

Involving many basic movement skills in your movement repertoire used to come naturally. During outdoor play, sports class, PE and music and dance class. However, today’s generation of youth is less fit and we need to offer them additional exercise programmes to compensate the “forgotten exercise skills.

In addition, today’s adults and seniors move too little. Our sitting habits work overtime, and when we do move, it is often one-sided. It does’nt seem logical to learn to move better by providing a balancetraining only at later age. It makes more sense to influence people throughout their entire lives by thoughtful diverse exercises. The Fundamental 10! serves as a menu of choices for the trainer, coach, teacher, therapist, parent, counselor. It provides a structure in programming a diverse range of exercise offerings.

Athletic Skills Model

The Fundamental 10! is a concept derived from the Athletic Skills Model® and was developed by, and is the registered property of, the Athletic Skills Company. The ASM is a Dutch talent development model that is scientifically and practically substantiated. It was developed by René Wormhoudt, the strength and conditioning coach of the Dutch national football team (KNVB), and Prof. Dr. Geert Savelsbergh, Professor in the Department of Human Movement Sciences at the VU University Amsterdam and Professor of Talent Development at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

Read more about the Athletic Skills Model and its founders >

Did you know?

Many top athletes are known to have practiced multiple sports, which means they automatically covered a large part of the Fundamental 10!. This contributed to better physical resilience, fewer injuries—leading to more hours of movement—a longer athletic career, and the development of more creative movement solutions.

See a shortlist of multiport athletes >

Become an expert on the Fundamental 10!.

With the Fundamental 10!, the Athletic Skills Model (ASM) has transformed the concept of versatile movement from a vision into a practical, applicable tool for both groups and individuals, and for all forms of physical activity. This includes use in physical education, rehabilitation/healthcare, elite sports and grassroots sports, informal sports, the corporate world, and vitality programs.

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