Abstract

Early childhood is known as a critical period in acquisition of development and basic mobility skills. In this period, physical education and judo education contribute to development of general body, hand-eye and foot-eye coordination, 5 motor skills, static and dynamic balance. Moreover, the sub-structure of lifelong sport habits is being prepared by teaching values with respect to judo, kindness, self-determination, solidarity, honesty, friendship, patience, courage and modesty. As a result, due to basic education of judo such as 'Ukemi, Tachi Waza and Newaza Basic Drills', children learn much more than movement skills. In this study, importance of physical education and judo activities in pre-school period has been considered in practice. The results showed Judo has an impact on pre-service and in-service training in practice of pre-school physical education and judo activities. It is inevitable that these activities contribute to almost all targeted development areas of a child, in addition to contributing to training of large group of children in first phase of long-term athlete development model in our country.

Highlights

  • Judo, which is one of the most popular sports in the world and is an attractive in almost every country since judo athletes and spectators enjoy watching exciting movements

  • There are projects carried out worldwide. One of these projects is Ukemi School children project, the other one is carried out by EJU (European Judo Association) to prevent trauma and injuries caused by the fall of children

  • "ukemi/fall" exercises may be conducted with special judo training methods

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Summary

Introduction

Judo, which is one of the most popular sports in the world and is an attractive in almost every country since judo athletes and spectators enjoy watching exciting movements. This program is supported with LTAD model and it is thought that success might be more sustainable (Özbey and Güzel, 2009) At this point, planning, conducting, receiving feedback and career planning of long-term sports development model are emerging. From this viewpoint, adaptation of activity period of ’long-term athletic development model’, which consists of 7 stages, as first stage of judo training might be examined. A mixed education model and well-structured physical education programs are proposed to raise physical development and broad-based basic mobility skills (Özkan and Özkan, 2016) At this point, these training methods should be constructed with mentioned points

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