Morphological and motor characteristics of young judokas

Abstract

The goal of this research was to determine infl uence of systematical judo practice on morphological and motor characteristics of young students. The sample of this ex-post-factor research included 25 judokas of approximate age of 8.52 years and 32 non-athletes with approximate age of 8.59 years. Morphological and motor characteristic of the students exposed to certain infl uence of practicing judo were compared to morphological and motor characteristic of those young students who are not exposed to any kind of practicing infl uence and are marked as non-athletes. For evaluation three variables were observed morphological characteristic and fi ve for motor characteristics. Two-way T-test for small independent groups was used for testing arithmetic mean differences between groups in the individual variables. The results of the analysis indicated that, as for morphological characteristics, there is a signifi cant difference between judokas group and non-athletes group in height. As for motor characteristics there is a signifi cant difference between these two groups in the following variables: velocity strength, repetitive strength and agility, while there were no statistically signifi cant differences for strong stamina and fl exibility. The acquired results can be explained by genetic condition of the observed variables at young school ages, as well as with the fact that some of the school children from the judo group were relatively shortly exposed to the training infl uence. Besides, some of the school children from the non-athletes group practice some other sport but during the test they were not members of any sport team or sport club.

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“…In the modern concept of the technology of development of a top athlete, along with the course of the selection process, the process of testing and evaluation of the obtained results in relation to the standards established for each individual age and competitive level should start and run (Koprivica, 2013;. It is also necessary to point out the fact that the positive impact of systematic training on the morphological characteristics and motor skills of children involved in judo sport is documented even in younger age categories (Ilić et al, 2012), so in this respect early involvement of children in systematic judo training can be considered justified and even desirable.…”