SDI Sport Development International SDI
The Sport Training Optimization Experts
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SDI Sport Development International SDI |
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The Sport Training Optimization Experts |
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Youth
Multilateral Sport
Development: The Child & Junior Athlete Path to Success |
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Sport Development International has training programs for all segments of your athletic life or the one of your loved ones. Our goal is to provide young and older athletes with the best development program in order for each to achieve their maximum potential. If you are caring parents wishing to improve the basic skills of your child for the sole purpose of well-being, health and increase the fun in your off-spring practices; or if you are a Junior athlete with high performance desire or if you are a coach / PE teacher in search of some new ideas to implement in your existing programs, we will have a program fitting your needs. Sport Development International training system is based on a multilateral approach of motor skills acquisition in the early stages of training. It has been shown through researches conducted in the United States, Europe and former Eastern bloc countries that there is a strong relationship between teenage sport dropout, burnout, recurrent injury problems, temptation of using performance enhancing substances and an early specialization in sport coupled with a lack of fundamental core motor and biomotor skills development. Self-confidence and great motor skills acquisition through enjoyable and safe practice is certainly the best gains an athlete can hope for through a systematic program development. At Sport Development International, we believe that the most confident athletes, those with higher chances of success in their lifelong sporting endeavors, are the athletes who will spend the time from an early age to progressively become better general athlete prior specializing into an activity. From childhood to adulthood it is of paramount importance to train the following motor skills and biomotor abilities through a multilateral sport program encompassing numerous activities:
These abilities must be addressed from the Initiation Phase all the way through the adolescence and mature athlete stages in a constructive, periodized and individualized way. As a child, most of these qualities can be developed through numerous training means incorporating: gymnastics basics, dancing, swimming, running, cycling, jumping, throwing, catching and also in introducing segments of different team sports for added fun and progressive complexity buildup. The broader the base, the better. Sport Development International incorporates all these aspects in its various programs; also allowing for the child to choose one or two activities he/she wishes to practice more just because he/she is more drawn to these than the others. The time allowed to other activities will be kept at a ratio of 70% to 30% of the planned weekly sport practice. Multilateral development will remain the goal. By the time the young athlete reaches 18 years of age, a reversal of these figures will have occurred. Specialization in a sport will be prescribed at around 16 to 17 years of age (except for two female sports: gymnastics and figure skating). In the case of team sports, specialization in a field position should also not occur before 17 or 18 years of age, the broader the experience and knowledge, the better. This is the rationale behind Sport Development International programs for young and mature athletes: Well rounded-up and prepared athletes make the most valuable specialists in the chosen sport. Statistically, specialized athletes at an early age will peak at Junior level and will not be able in most instances to reproduce their Junior performances at senior or high performance levels. With a strong multilateral base, the athletes are then ready to follow a periodization plan involving a systematic training progression of the biomotor, technical and tactical abilities for a specific competitive sport. Efficient training is simply manipulating the training parameters within the plan to achieve specific objectives on the long term. At Sport Development International, we have the edge to offer the program which will best suit your child or athlete, e-mail us for an assessment and some free counseling on which program would best meet your needs. We provide solutions before problems occur! For any inquiries, please contact us at: info@sportdevelopmentinternational.com
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Sport Development International, 2007, 2008 |
