Differentiation of physical training of athletes aged 12-13 in taekwon-do ITF: prospects of research

Abstract

Martial arts represent one of the biggest groups among kinds of sports. Along with other kinds of sports, taekwon-do ITF has distinguished features, philosophical bases and their practical realization, structure and content of competition activity. The aim is to reveal prospects of research related to differentiation of physical training of athletes aged 12-13 in taekwon-do ITF. Methods. Methods of theoretical analysis and academic and methodological references data generalization have been used. Data regarding the system of athletes training, formation of their physical, technical and tactical training in taekwon-do WTF, ITF and other martial arts have been analyzed. Results. A peculiar feature of martial arts is a wide range of technical and tactical techniques, increased requirements to their realization under conditions of competition activity, their spectacular nature, winner unpredictability, hard contact with opponents. In various academic references, it has been noted that physical training of athletes is the basis for various kinds of martial arts. To tackle issues of physical training of athletes in taekwon-do ITF it is advisable to use advanced methodological developments. Differentiation is one of them. Effectiveness of the use of various methodological variations of physical training differentiation has been confirmed and proven within practice of athletes training in the majority of sports: handball, rugby, sports orientation, volleyball, rowing. However, a significant volume of academic information related to application of physical training differentiation on the basis of indices of physical preparedness of martial- arts athletes has not been analyzed. Conclusions. On the basis of the existing contradiction between the need to improve physical training of athletes aged 12-13 in taekwon-do ITF on the background of increasing competitiveness and lack of complex consideration of the components of individual physical preparedness, an urgent academic and practical objective of physical training differentiation of athletes aged 12-13 in taekwon-do ITF needs to be tackled.