Poster Presentation

Paper ID : 1144-SSRC

آموزگار آموزش و پرورش ناحیه 1 همدان

Objective: Childhood period is the period of acquiring basic and fundamental motor skills. Learning these skills is important because it determines the progress in sports skills and the level of people's participation in physical activities in their future lives. However, the research results show that many children remain in the elementary or preliminary stages of acquiring fundamental motor skills and do not enter the advanced stage of these movements. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of a local indigenous games course on locomotor and manipulation skills of 8-12-year-old boys in Hamadan city. Methodology: The current research method was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. 60 male students aged 8 to 12 years of Risalat school were randomly selected and then they were placed in two groups of local indigenous game and control group. The participants of the experimental group played local indigenous games under the supervision of a sports coach during 8 weeks and three sessions in week for 45 minutes. The instrument used in the present study was Al-Rich motor development test. For data analysis, independent and dependent t-tests were used in SPSS software version 23. Results: The results showed improvement in the scores of participants of the experimental group compared to the control group in locomotor and manipulation skills. Conclusion: According to the results of the research, it is suggested that school sports coaches use local indigenous games to improve the basic skills of locomotor and manipulation of children.

Local Indigenous Games; Fundamental motor skills; Children