When to give the child to the sports section
Free wrestling should be dealt with from 10 or 11 years. It absorbed all the best from many types of martial arts. In free-style wrestling, strikes, painful and suffocating tricks are prohibited. From rivals it is required only one thing - to achieve that the loser touched the carpet 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
This is a very dynamic sport where it is necessaryconstantly show initiative, passivity is punished with penalty points. The fight in the ring lasts only 5 minutes, during this time one of the athletes need to score the minimum number of balls or win a clean victory. If this does not happen, the time is extended for another 3 minutes. Carrying out freestyle wrestling training is no less exciting than a competition. They absorbed elements of acrobatics, power sports and yoga:
- for the physical education of young athletes using gymnastic and acrobatic exercises - somersault, somersault, wheel;
- To train strength help exercises on squat with a load, pushing away from the floor, arm wrestling, exercises for the press.
- for the development of flexibility use various exercises for stretching the joints - twine, bridge, etc.
Technique and tactics in freestyle wrestling are very diverse. At the initial stage of education, the child must learn the basic movements that will allow to form the initial technique of combat.
What is useful in the section on free-style wrestling
Constant workouts make the child strong,hardy, fast. He is less sick, ahead of his peers. In addition to physical qualities, character is tempered. Where an ordinary person is saved or lost, the athlete will be able to overcome obstacles and achieve the goal. The skills of freestyle wrestling will be very useful to the boy in the army and in ordinary life. If hooligans attack on the street, he will be able to stand up for himself. You can bring a child to the section to fight in 10 years. Before this age it is necessary to develop it with the help of other sports - swimming, gymnastics, acrobatics.
