Extensive research tells us that the premature teaching of
sport skills before children have mastered FMS can negatively impact on an individual's confidence and performance ability.
Not exact matches
Through playing
sports, you will learn new
skills and discover new things that you never thought you could do
before.
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.
As a result, children who sample multiple
sports before age 12, Franzen says, possess a broad range of physical, personal, and mental
skills that allow them to be successful when they do start specializing in a single
sport during adolescence.
«We are proud of many things about our program and one that stands out is our implementation of preseason conditioning /
skill development training camps
before the start of our
sports seasons,» Ficek says.
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.
Kids mature at their own pace and develop their unique
skills at different times, so consider your child's emotional and physical maturity
before you commit to a season of
sports.
• Children should ALWAYS wear the correct safety gear and equipment • The playing field or court should be safe, and checked
before use • Teams should be made up of children of similar size,
skill level, and physical and emotional maturity • All children participating should be physically and mentally prepared • Children practicing a
sport should be watched by an adult who enforces the safety rules • Children should get enough fluids
before, during and after
sports
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