Improving the Skate Sliding Technique in Young Hockey Players

The article is devoted to the consideration of regularities in the formation of motor skills that help assess both the quality of mastery of motor action in young hockey players and the possibility of variation of training conditions. The current problem in training young hockey players is the contradiction between the need to master complex technical actions of the initial training stage, which determine efficiency in the team sport, and the low quality of mastering the basic element-skating. The aim of the study is to develop a methodology for improving the basic elements of skate sliding in 7- to 9-year-old boys playing ice hockey. The methods of the study are: theoretical analysis and generalization of scientific and methodological literature, modeling. The pedagogical experiment was conducted for two months (October and November) in 2018 on the basis of the Samotlor Sports School of Olympic Reserve in Nizhnevartovsk. The methodology was implemented at training sessions (twice or thrice a week) according to the plan of the ice hockey coaching teacher. 24 young hockey players aged 7 to 9 attending the group of initial training for 2 to 2.5 years took part in the study. The group trained by the working program of sports training "Hockey" (2016), which was developed on the basis of the program of sports training for children's and youth sports schools and specialized children's and youth schools of the Olympic reserve in ice hockey. This methodology ensures the optimal construction of the system of training sessions, the selection of warm-up and preparatory exercises, the determination of their place in the structure of the training session, sequence, combination and alternation in the structure of the cycle of different sessions, excluding the interference of the previous motor skill technique and, as a result, the automation of the incorrect motor skill. One of the most common mistakes in training young hockey players is forcing the mastering of elements that reflect the specificity of this sport when a high-quality skate sliding skill has not been formed. The consequences of the malformed motor sliding skill will show in the following years of training, especially in adolescence during another physiological leap in the development of functions and systems. Thus, the implementation of the methodology of skate sliding, based on the formation of a new target basis of actions with new support points, at training sessions with young hockey players for two months helps more than 70% of the participants to qualitatively master the motor skill of skate sliding.

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