The research on the occurrence and application of sports skill transfer aims at improving the learning effect of sports skills and improving the teaching quality. By using the methods of literature review and logical analysis, this paper studies the specific application of sports migration in physical education teaching. The results show that the mechanism of sports migration is that under the leadership of the central system, muscles’ old technical memory is transformed into new sports technology, and the two interact to produce sports migration. Starting from teaching practice, studying the law of sports skill transfer can promote the occurrence of positive transfer in teaching, shorten teaching time and learning time, and become the key to mastering skills. It can quickly adapt to the new learning environment of sports skills or solve new problems, and maximize the benefits of physical education teaching and sports training.