Description

Taekwondo and child

A new book on the sport of Taekwondo will be released by May 1. The book written by former federal coach and physical education teacher, Andreas Christidis.

The book entitled «Taekwondo and child, 230+ Games and Exercises" focuses on young athletes, aged between 4 and 12 years.

As stated in the description, "taking into account the important role of gaming in psychomotor development of the child, while developing motor skills - skills shaping characters and setting behavior through rules, answers in this book to questions of how, how the when and why we prefer and recommend the playful exercise method than traditional ".

"A book useful for any coach, trainer, teacher and graduate student Shefa 'continues while as pointed out the meaning of the book attributed to these four verses:" Rampage - play, I stand - I laugh, I see - hear, twist and kick' .

The purpose of this book is to be able to integrate smoothly and oikei-
othelos a child in sport generally and specifically in Tae kwon do, a sport
which involves not only respect, but also the magic of martial art. The Ali
thia is that for many it contains and the fear element as a contact sport
discourage them for dealing with it, or having a fear of failure, or
believing that the initiation in Tae Kwon Do will only come through violent movements. If
So considering these potential fears, can sympathize
subject and the hesitation of a young child in front of the view of the war this art.
For this reason, we as teachers-coaches should constantly give new stimuli, challenges and new goals to confront and conquer 9 small child, through play, without departing from our objective, which is none other than to develop the child all those skills that will later need as a teenager and adult athlete and will be able thus to maximize the
greatest possible extent the efficiency and performance in Tae Kwon Do, sys-
comparatively with someone else, who failed their development in childhood.