Referring to the evolutionary itinerary described by Gallahue (1982), cited in Contreras (1998, p.192), we talk about Basic Motor Skill (BMS) when we refer to those early coordinated and intentional actions that individuals perform in their early life stages, after having passed earlier stages related to reflexive and involuntary actions or those performed with a certain level of muscle control and voluntary movement, albeit imprecisely.

We should be aware that the first falls, more or less controlled, in childhood accompany the first locomotor actions. These actions are worked on in later developmental stages and are developed specifically to improve an individual's motor skills. As coordination and control become more evident, we tend to forget about falls, thinking that mastering the first ones prevents the latter, and interpreting them as accidents or as resulting from coordination errors in these movements. Falls can be understood as a failure in the basic locomotor system and, therefore, are part of it. Working on falls skillfully is reducing their potential consequences, and therefore, in this sense, the falling skill is at the same motor level as other locomotor skills.

The importance of recognizing falls as a skill lies in the knowledge of the falling skill by physical education professionals and, consequently, its introduction into their students' learning programs in the same way that the work on other skills is introduced. It is part of a basic kinetic system within what we have been interpreting as motor literacy (Whitehead, 2010).

Therefore, basic motor skills are innate motor patterns, embedded in the evolutionary development of the individual, in their phylogenetic development, which all individuals develop, and where variability in teaching them is enriching and allows students to adapt to different situations and solve different environmental problems. The falling skill is found in the next step as a generic motor skill, where students are taught to know how to fall in a specific way and apply a specific technique, which can become common to other sports, hence, it is not specific but has a technique and a learning pattern.

Generic Motor Skills (GMS) are patterns of movement learned, at an intermediate stage between basic and specific skills, which can be applied to different game situations or sports and, therefore, do not imply a high degree of specialization. They result from the combination of several basic skills and are transferable to any sport or motor requirement. Therefore, the falling skill is defined as follows.Haciendo referencia al itinerario evolutivo descrito por Gallahue (1982), citado en Contreras (1998, p.192), hablamos de Habilidad Motriz Básica (HMB) cuando nos referimos a aquellos primeros actos coordinados e intencionales que realizan las personas en sus primeros estadios vitales, después de haber superado estadios anteriores relacionados con actos reflejos e involuntarios o realizados con cierto control de la musculatura y movimiento voluntario aunque de manera imprecisa.