The child’s right to an open sporting future

Bailey, Richard

doi:10.4324/9780429352645-14

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“…On the task-specificity continuum, when moving from bottom (low) to top (high), the range of experiences becomes narrower and thus less diverse and more prone to monotony. More specifically, the range of opportunities for an open future and diversified athletic identity becomes narrower, 102 risk for overload injury increases from lack of biomechanical diversity, 23 and risk of burnout increases from lack of psychological diversity. 24 Therefore, as task-specificity increases, the risks of neglecting important aspects of PYD also increase.…”

Section: Goal 2: Pydmentioning

confidence: 99%

Talent development in childhood: Early specialization or sampling? From an either… or… question to a 2 × 2 × 3 question cuboid

Charbonnet,

Conzelmann

2023

International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching

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A central, yet still unresolved, question about optimal youth talent development asks whether children should specialize and train systematically in one sport— early specialization—or gain different playful experiences in several sports— early sampling. Based upon theoretical considerations, we problematize dichotomous discussions and offer a complex 2 × 2 × 3 question cuboid differentiating between two goals (performance in adulthood and positive youth development), two continuum-based dimensions (task-specificity and exercise mode), and three perspectives (nomothetic, group-specific, and idiographic). Accordingly, resolving the question about optimal youth talent development involves assembling answers derived from 12 different questions. Through our theoretical contribution, we identified several nomothetic principles offering stakeholders initial recommendations and orientations to estimate the appropriate need for high task-specificity and exercise mode in relation to each goal. We suggest adapting these recommendations according to group-specific characteristics, such as sport and age, and idiographic fine-tuning according to children's biopsychosocial characteristics.

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Section: Goal 2: Pydmentioning

confidence: 99%