THE IMPORTANCE OF JUDO EDUCATION FOR THE CHILDREN’S DEVELOPEMENT

Abstract

In the last decade, there has been a greater emphasis on the importance of starting a test movement from an early age. They are still by nature looking for and loving situations and challenges that require courage, researching the limits of their own performance, wondering what they are capable of, and how powerful they are. Among the martial arts, judo is the sport that can be taught from preschool age. This physical education system highlights exercises that playfully strengthen the muscles of the torso, includes elements of basic movement skills (crawling, climbing, rolling, pushing, pulling), learns about falls, and the experience oriented of fighting games. The purpose of the study is to examine how this sport develops motor skills and shapes character. Therefore a structured interview was conducted (N = 4) with the judges of the Judo section of the Eger City Sports School in Eger, a university master lecturer and a judo who is still active in the junior category in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a 3-time national champion and European champion with 5th place. In the county, judo is taught only in the city of Eger within the framework of special classes, and trainings are held for preschool children up to 25 years of age (N = 97) and senior athletes over 25 years of age (N = 17). To sum up the interviews, the psychological, physiological and pedagogical characteristics of the child are taken into account when planning the workouts. It examines the pedagogical behavior of coaches on how they can maintain a healthy level of competition without allowing for excesses. We get answers about how they learn to work together, pay attention to each other, compete with each other, and help each other. It seems individual sport, yet judo teaches you to work in a team and prepares you for certain contacts, situations that can be used in other areas of life.