It's a simple skill, but learning to react and leap quickly into the path of the ball requires practice.
The manner in which he has adapted his game to suit the different forms of cricket speaks volumes for his skills to react to changing circumstances.
To do all this you will need fast reflex skills to react quick enough.
I had lost ball skills and instincts, was noticeably slow to react and always felt a step or three — or five — behind where I wanted to be.
Both require concentration and skill, and an ability to react quickly in the face of unexpected danger.
Boys who were once quick to react with anger and aggression are now applying the skills they have learned through their Transformer Club groups.
Imagine what it feels like when you're driving a little bit over the speed limit, going down a mountain road, and you hit a patch of ice and suddenly have to use all your skills to quickly react, to stop yourself from going over a cliff.
Kevin Conley, who wrote about NASCAR for The New Yorker in 2003, tried, in an accompanying Q. & A. with Matt Dellinger, to evoke the experience: Imagine what it feels like when you're driving a little bit over the speed limit, going down a mountain road, and you hit a patch of ice and suddenly have to use all your skills to quickly react, to stop yourself from going over a cliff.
Here, the steering for the transfer of knowledge (facts, procedures, concepts and principles) and skills (thinking, acting, reacting and interacting) needs to take the trainees from Known to Unknown, Concrete to Abstract, Observation to Theory and Simple to Complex.
Modern shmups demand incredible skill levels, pushing the ability to react to dense clouds of bullets.
So why just holler at Howley when Wales's attempts to play with more pace and width as the Test game becomes more fast and dynamic are undermined by a lack of skill and an inability of players to react to the unexpected?
