Estudio comparativo de las habilidades motrices desarrolladas en niños de 4 a 13 años que entrenan Taekwondo en la Academia Xavier Romero de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

Taekwondo is a martial art and Olympic sport originally from Korea, its practice is a training tool that can be implemented in young children, so it is important to have knowledge that can be applied in injury prevention. The general objective of this research work was to compare the motor skills developed by children who practice taekwondo according to age, stage of development, level and training time. A non-experimental, descriptive, cross-sectional study design was used, based on an exhaustive review of the scientific literature and in a field work through the application of measuring instruments (test), to a random sample of 111 Taekwondo students from 4 to 13 years of basic and middle level divided into 3 groups, the research is mixed quantitative, qualitative. As conclusions it was obtained that the children that are in the intermediate phase of the practice of taekwondo demonstrated to have a better mastery of their abilities both in the general scope and in the abilities that they develop in Taekwondo, compared to children of the same age in Initial stage, which still do not have a correct motor order, demonstrating that with the practice of taekwondo can be regulated. The intermediate level exceeded all practices of coordination and combat skills in reference to the basic level, the difference is due to the difference in training time, which leaves the benefits of the practice of sport established from the first years of life.