When to give the child to the sports section
Freestyle wrestling should be practiced from 10 or 11years. It has absorbed the best of many types of martial arts. In freestyle wrestling, strikes, painful and choking techniques are prohibited. The only thing required of the opponents is to make the loser touch the mat with both shoulder blades.
Free-style wrestling sections for children are popular inmany countries of the world. Photo: Getty The parents who dream about the sports future of the child, are engaged in its physical development from the first year of life. They drive the baby to the pool, figure skating, skiing, gymnastics. To achieve success in freestyle wrestling, the level of physical training, speed of reaction, flexibility, strength plays a big role.
Features of freestyle wrestling
It is a very dynamic sport where you need toconstantly show initiative, passivity is punished with penalty points. The fight in the ring lasts only 5 minutes, during which time one of the athletes needs to score a minimum number of points or win a clear victory. If this does not happen, the time is extended by another 3 minutes. Conducting freestyle wrestling training is no less an exciting spectacle than competitions. They have incorporated elements of acrobatics, strength sports and yoga:
- gymnastic and acrobatic exercises are used for physical education of young athletes - somersaults, cartwheels;
- To train strength help exercises on squat with a load, pushing away from the floor, arm wrestling, exercises for the press.
- To develop flexibility, various exercises for stretching joints are used - splits, bridges, etc.
The techniques and tactics in freestyle wrestling are very diverse. At the initial stage of training, the child must learn the basic movements that will allow the formation of the initial technique of combat.
What is useful in the section on free-style wrestling
Constant training makes a child strong,hardy, fast. He gets sick less often, is ahead of his peers in development. In addition to physical qualities, his character is tempered. Where an ordinary person would give in or get confused, an athlete will be able to overcome obstacles and achieve a goal. Freestyle wrestling skills will be very useful to a boy in the army and in everyday life. If hooligans attack him on the street, he will be able to stand up for himself. You can bring your child to a wrestling section at the age of 10. Before this age, it is necessary to develop it with the help of other sports - swimming, gymnastics, acrobatics.
