Effects of an 10-week Detraining Period on Gross Motor Skills in Young Tricking Practitioners

Abstract

Tricking has emerged as a martial arts sport that combines acrobatics, gymnastics, kicks and jumps to create multiple visually striking movements. Actually, 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 pre-detraining period and a post-detraining period using agility test, vertical impulse test, horizontal impulse test and push-up test, sit-up test. The agility and sit-ups variables show significant differences of large effect (∆ = 6.82, p = 0.001, d = 2.80; ∆ = -13.76, p = 0.003, d = 1.27) respectively. Vertical impulse and push-ups showed significant differences between training phases a moderate effect (∆ = -5.13, p = 0.007, d = 0.85; ∆ = -8.37, p = 0.006, d = 1, 13). Results showed that agility and abdominal strength test sip-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.