Sentences with phrase «early sports skills»

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Seeking to provide classes for kids eighteen months and up, she founded Little Kickers, a program that promotes a curriculum of early learning skills (colours, numbers, etc.) alongside a love of sport.

Also of note is the finding that the best performing young footballers who will go on to play the sport professionally display superior dribbling skills, endurance capacity and tactical awareness compared to their peers, from as early as 14 years of age.9 17 These differences appear well before it is possible to accumulate 10 000 h of practice, but allow predictions of which players will go on to achieve best performances in adulthood, suggesting that the effectiveness of and response to training, rather than simply training, determines success.

The unfortunate fact is that, in a society and youth sports culture that places such a heavy emphasis on winning, an early bloomer enjoys advantages that may continue long after peers have caught up and, in many cases, passed him in terms of skill proficiency.

Taught by the media and radical feminists to be ashamed about their maternal, nurturing and intuitive side, mothers are too often afraid to follow and act on their intuition even though it tells them that a youth sports system which too often emphasizes winning and competition over fun and skill development, treats children as young as six as adults and cruelly and unfairly saddles so many as failures before they have even reached puberty because they weren't lucky enough to be «early bloomers» or have a January birthday, is not the kind of nurturing, caring and, above all, inclusive environment mothers believe their children need to grow into confident, competent, empathetic, emotionally and psychologically healthy adults.

She was wearing the strip having taken part in a charity sports day event earlier in the morning where she showed off her ball juggling skills.

By the time she reached the peak of her skills in the early 1990s, Tonya became the only American woman to land a triple axel, the most difficult triple jump in the sport.

«Currently most sports programs for children focus on participants acquiring specialised movement skills and applying them in a sporting context, with limited provision to support the exploration of movement and early development of fundamental movement skills (FMS).

High quality early childhood experiences; summer school to address summer loss; parent education programs to build skills needed in school; parent housing vouchers to reduce mobility; after school programs such as sports, chess clubs, and robotics; a full array of AP courses; school counselors and school nurses at the ratios their professions recommend; professional development for teachers and establishment of school cultures of professionalism; pay for teachers at parity with what others at similar educational levels receive; and so forth.

Early learning and socialization for puppies; canine good manners and life skills; child / pet socialization, emphasizing child / dog safety; specialized classes including foundation skills for canine sports and precision skills for obedience and sports; training for certain types of working dogs.