Sport şi Societate (Mar 2014)
STUDY REGARDING THE ROLE OF ATHLETICS IN THE PREPARATION OF THE BADMINTON BEGINNERS
Abstract
In this study we highlighted the importance of the athletics in the training sessions in badminton, in order to improve sport performance.In badminton, speed is very important and therefore we considered necessary to apply to the badminton players an athletic training program and to be tested by athletic events, but also through a specific exercise from badminton "The shuttlecock does not touch the ground". This exercise is used to test the speed of movement and the speed of reaction. Children are placed on the boundary line of the backcourt, and the coach is in the opponent's court, near the net. At an acoustic signal, the badminton coach throws the shuttlecock up, near the service line and the children need to hit the shuttlecock with the racket before it touches the ground.Given that speed is an essential quality for the future badminton players, I decided that their training should be focused on improving the speed ofmovement. In athletics at the performance level, the category III children are involved in running events of 50 m and 200m. So, we decided to give our children the same tests and then to compare them to those who perform a more specific badminton training. The subjects of this study were 15 children with ages between 7 and 9 years. They performed five training sessions per week and three of the sessions were exclusively with means specific to athletics. In the other group were 15 children as well, same age, and they performed training sessions five times a week, with specific means of badminton. After 3 months from the beginning of the training, the 30 children were tested using two running events (50 m and 200 m) and a specific test of badminton (“The shuttlecock does not touch the ground”). After athletic trainings the experimental group had improve their results.
