Effects of a 10-week detraining period on gross motor skills in young tricking practitioners

Resumen

Tricking has emerged as a martial arts sport that combines acrobatics, gymnastics, kicks and jumps to create multiple
visually striking movements. The effects of a period of detraining in young tricking practitioners still unclear. The
main objective of this study was to verify the effect of a 10-week detraining period on different motor skills in young
tricking practitioners. A group of 17 children (age: 10.18 ± 0.98 years) tricking practitioners were analyzed in a predetraining
period and a post-detraining period using agility test, vertical impulse test, horizontal impulse test and pushup
test, sit-up test. The agility and sit-ups variables show significant differences of large effect (Δ = 6.82, p = .001, d
= 2.80; Δ = -13.76, p = .003, d = 1.27) respectively. Vertical impulse and push-ups showed significant differences
between training phases a moderate effect (Δ = -5.13, p = .007, d = .85; Δ = -8.37, p = .006, d = 1, 13). Results showed
that agility and abdominal strength test sit ups were those that decreased to a greater extent in these subjects with
a large effect, being the vertical jump as well as the push up, the motor tests that decreased moderately, while the
horizontal jump did not vary significantly.