Figure Skating Patterns

Copyright (c) 2010 Tatiana Bandurina

Finally, the long-awaited Olympic Games in Vancouver have begun. Future Olympians: who are they? As of today we can not list the names of all athletes who will receive a medal at these games, but the fact that most of them were musically gifted as children, makes no doubt.

Only a narrow-minded person or a dilettante might think that all a good athlete needs to be retained are muscles of steel. And what do we need to get good muscles? Right, he needs training continued. Any sport is very physically demanding on the body. Have you ever heard the saying, might makes right? Is this true?

Whatever the sport may be - the team, couple or single - there are always specific tactics competitors. In other words, the athlete or team with the trainer (or a group of trainers), often discuss concrete actions, participants engage in the competition. And the tactics of the two competing parties are examined.

A good player should know the strengths and weaknesses of their opponent to prepare, train and implement certain measures to make their opponent is desperate, or have challenged some time.

What conclusion can we do? It's a good athlete should think!

But it appears that even this is not enough to advance in the competition for some sports! For example, let's take a look at gymnastics and figure skating.

The selection of children in these kinds of sports is very important and is an essential component of sports training system in the long term. It involves the selection of a certain type of children that meet the requirements of a given sport to most, children who are able to show the best possible achievements in sport, and children who can demonstrate a high reliability and productivity of extreme pressure and in conditions of fierce competition.

The selection technique examines the cons-physical values, the evaluation of a constitution (body type), personality, physical and technical training specialist, and ... musical talent!

Yes, you read that right! This is not a typo! When children choose for gymnastics and figure skating, it is very important to properly assess the musical abilities of the child. Their ear for music is one of the most necessary criteria to achieve positive results in these kinds of sports.

You probably would like to know how they verify the musical capabilities. Here's how. The child is proposed for development or clap the number of different rhythmic patterns, starting with the most simple to complex. He / she must also indicate the sense of time and nature of quality music. To determine this, the child is offered to walk, dance, or trot, musical pieces of different types that vary in both pace and time!

If your child has already passed the rigid main criteria for predicting its next athletic ability at this stage, the growth rate of physical qualities required and the speed of motor skill development (its engine capacity to learn) . Music classes - and in this case play musical instruments - are of great help in raising the motor learning abilities of children.

Even if your child is taking music lessons from sports for a short period of time, fine motor skills learned during these lessons will be very beneficial. They play a huge role in the development of the child's right and left hemispheres of the brain. Playing musical instruments have a positive impact on a child's daily physical training and preparation for competitions in general.

What are the benefits of these young "musical" The athletes? They are more aware of and the tasks of the trainer. They are able to evaluate and distribute their own energy more efficiently.