Linear Movement: Linear movement describes a situation in which movement occurs in a straight line. Linear movement can also be called translation but only if parts of the object or the athlete move the same distance, I the same direction, and in the same time frame. As you can imagine, translation rarely occurs in an athlete’s movement because some parts of an athlete’s body can be moving faster than other parts and not always exactly in the same direction. For example: and athlete in the 100 meter sprint wants to prawl the shortest distance from the start to the finish line

Angular movement: Coaches talk of athletes rotating, spinning, swinging, circling, turning, rolling, pirouetting, somersaulting and twisting. All of these terms indicate that an object or an athlete is turning through an angle, or number of degree. In sports such as gymnastics, basketball, figure skating, diving, handball, jumping the movements used by athletes include quarter turn (90 degrees) half turns (180 degrees) and full turns (360 degrees) slam dunk competitions are great example of basketball players showing off their 360°.