Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences

Year: 2010
Volume: 7
Issue: 6
Page No. 393 - 403

Ability Choice in Sport

Authors : Mustafa Erol and Mehmet Goral

Abstract: The aim of this study is trying to find some features which affect the success in ability choice for students. This study whose aims are to search and analyze the factors for directing the sportives early and getting excellent success searches the completeness of the subject with developing technology. Increasement of the sportvies number who want to reach high performance in study’s searchment is the basic principal. When all sport branches are done by young generation, gifted students appear by themselves. The science enters into the point of chosing the talented students from huge crowd in which people do sport. It is determined that a person’s physiological features are suitable for which sport with the several measurements which were taken on anatomic form in early ages. By classifing the children who are arranged in groups they are directed to several sport branches which they like. In addition developed countries surely make students do some suitable sport branches for physical growth in first step. Swimming, athleticism, gymnastic leads these sport branches. Soon, they are getting interested in private branches according to talent and scientific datums. A different point enters into stuation features about folk. Turkey colud not be successful in these two subjects. The aim of this study doing ability choice to be more successful for sportives whose motoric tests which we determined are good in addition to being a successfull sportives or to choose physical, physiological and psychological criterions and help the success of country.

How to cite this article:

Mustafa Erol and Mehmet Goral, 2010. Ability Choice in Sport. Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences, 7: 393-403.

INTRODUCTION

Sport has the biggest role to create healthy society at the present time. In addition when we search the importance of sport in world economy we will understand that how the sport is in the life and how it affect the life quality in every aspect (Smith and Stewart, 2010; Abrahamsen et al., 2007).

Directing the crowd to sport is a result of countries common sport policy. Widespread sport programmes serve to specialized sport not only with its functions which evaluates society health, increasing the life quality giving attention to leisure time but also with the condition of growing expert sportives and discovering their talent and bring into the open. World countries created an expert sportives source with their widespread sport policy. The importance of ability choice will be understood when the studies abour the subject are analyzed. To get high performance and great success in a sport branch, it is neccessary that either genetic or acquised talent and aptness of individual or persons who intesested in relative sport branche should be suitable and practicable. For this reason ability choice and development is the most important point which affetcs the performance (Adriaanse and Crosswhite, 2008; Bortoli et al., 2009; De Bruin et al., 2009; Foll et al., 2008; Gillet et al., 2009).

Ability choice and determining come about in two stage. While in first stage it is determined that aptness of child or young to sport and their ability with evaluating common rates and datums in second stage private aptness and abilties of that person for foreseen sport branch are determined with the test which determines the ability and is special to every sport branch. All qualities and features which will be tested should be true and obvious because tests and their datums which will be used in ability choice, the age to start training, planning of training, capacities of assumptions and it will be a support for the decisions which is in wide forwarding and management (Andrews, 2003; Assor et al., 2009; Beauchamp et al., 2005; Dixon, 2009; Kuczka and Treasure, 2005). International sport successes help to gain prestige for presentation of their country and it will be an area in which either politic or economic positive improvements are carried out many country, understood the importance of this in vested a huge fund and today they enjoy their international successes as a result of investment. The most important factor for these successes is studing cleanly and systematically with basic facilities, foundation, trainer and technology to choose and direct the students to suitable sport branch in the most suitable age. It is understood whether the student is convenient or not during training because learnig the movements of people and practicing them is the basis of humanity. Trainers who want to choose the most convenient individuals should start the job by preparing a training pragramme to which many children can attend (Bennis and Pachur, 2006; Berrett and Slack, 2001; Blanchard et al., 2008; Constantini et al., 2005; Davids et al., 1991).

According to this it can be said that trainnig manages the procedure of gaining young sportives and and helps to know their potential. So, attending to training regularly is the mos important external condition to determine the convenience of sportives. This theoretic suggestion does not determine the convenience in any branch, determinative datum factor can be understood before without training this is more effective than physical features (Slutzky and Simpkins, 2009; Casper et al., 2007; Eysenck et al., 1982; Ferkins et al., 2005).

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Getting datums in searchment is in the source scanning model. In this study, tests which were used to find the abilities of sportives were evaluated according to speed, balance, quickness, muscular endurance, flexibility features (Chirivella and Martinez, 1994; Coates and Humphreys, 2003; Fraser-Thomas et al., 2008; French and Nevett, 1993).

Ability: In english talent, ability is a term that in Turksih it can be described as capability, potantial of ability.

Talented: It is directed to a certain direction, above normal rate measurement but stil not matured totally and it expresses the familiarity to improvement.

Sportive ability: It includes the individuals who has private or top level convenience for sportives output for the reason of genetic or acquired behavioral conditions. Common physical education ability is versatile. Physical mental and social factors appear obviously by itself for the persons who has enough physical performance. There are three abilities in sport.

General motoric ability: It can be explained as childrens movement learning easily, quickly, safely and having a huge movement repertory.

General sport ability: This kind of ability includes childrens leraning sport skills easily, quickly and safely. It is a sign that the advantage in child’s having a wide movement repartory when compared with his or her coequal.

Ability special to sport tpye: This ability includes the ability of having physical and psychological features which are necessary for showing a great performance in a certain sport branche.

It can be said that motoric ability consists of two parts when we think general sport. The first component is potential power which is instinctive and determined as genetic.

It is called as Motoric Capacity in sport. McCloy think these 4 elements as the sign of motoric capacity; physical development, motoric learning, power, agility and coordination. The second component is the part which changes in time with education and training (Funk et al., 2000; Bengoechea and Strean, 2007; Linver et al., 2009; Logan et al., 1984; Helsen and Pauwels, 1993; Holt et al., 2009).

The aim of ability choice:

Preparing an ambient in which conscious and purposive training will be organized and aptness to sport and talented sportives will be chosen
Determining childrens and youngs abilities and aptness to a sport branch in that sport branche’s training as common and private
Choosing and knowing the most talented sportive for that sport branche
For more distinguished sportives making the coach pass his time with persons who has great and nature talent

Using the ability choice in sportive choice has some advantages like the decreasement of time which is necessary to reach great output as general making the need of more research, energy and huge ability disappeared from the standpoint of coach (Doan et al., 2000; Duda, 1985; Duda and Ntoumanis, 2003; Getty, 2006; Zuckerman and Stelmack, 2004; Goudas and Giannoudis, 2008).

Benefits of ability choice applications: Some advantages which are the result of time for ability determining can be described as in this way (Dweck, 2002; Edwards and Finger, 2007; Eime and Payne, 2009; Erpic et al., 2004; Findlay and Coplan, 2008):

The neccessary time to reach great output by choosing the gifted sportives for a certain spor or sport branch decreases as general
Makes the need of more work, energy and huge ability disappeared from the standpoint of coach
The effectiveness of coach for training develops by training especially with sportives who has great talent
It makes the number of sportives increased who can compete and has the aim of huge output. As a result a national team is created which includes sportives who are more powerful and familiar to each other
It makes the sportives feel sure of himself because it is known that it is more effective when the output development of person compared with sportives who are coequal and are not included to election period
It makes applications of scientific training more easier. Because it can be ensured that scientist who are the leaders of determining ability can observe the training of sportives
This information motivates the sportives
Childrens are satisfied when they are chosen for the branch which is suitable to physical and psychological features of them
After the carier of talented sportives was over the number of qulaified coach can be increased in that area by giving professional education

First conditions for ability choice: Choice and orientation of ability is important for sport which is for great performance. There is no need just like an arientation in recreative sport sensibility different first conditions are needed in ability choice (Funk and Pritchard, 2006; Gano-Overway et al., 2009; Mabe and West, 1982; Magyar and Feltz, 2003; Garcia, 2001).

Anthropometric first conditions: Sportive’s features like length, weight, body structure, the center of body wieght etc.

Physical fitness first conditions: Sportive’s features like normal and private endurance static and dynamic power, speed, ability and mobility.

Techno-motoric features: Sportive’s features like balance ability, place destination and tempo feeling, aptness to ball, rhythmic and fluentness.

Education ability: Sportive’s features like perception, observation and analysis.

Mental ability: Features like attention motoric fluentness (sensibility of game), creative, admiration ability.

Social factors: Features like leadership having responsibility, team sensibility.

Psychologic first conditions: Being ready to contest, holding on stres, wishes for overcoming obstacles.

First conditions for performance: Sportive’s features like endurance to obstacles, willings for train, desire for success.

Ability chocie species: Ability choice is examined in two groups: natural choice and scientific choice.

Natural cohice: A normal approach is known as the natural way to make a sportive develop. It is observed that sportives direct to a sport as a result of their local effects (school traditions, wishes and desires or appraoches of family). Development of output which is a result of natural choice way is based on whether the person attend to a branch which was chosen randomly and the person is talented or not. For this reason person’s output development works too slowly because of ideal sport choice is wrong (Greenlees et al., 2007; Harner and Lo, 2009; Hayen et al., 2007; Keegan et al., 2009).

Scientific choice: Trainer evaluates the youngs who are accepted as gifted in a sport and presents a future by this method. For this reason the time which is needed to get big success for the person who were chosen by scientific way is more shorter when compared with the persons who were chosen by natural way. Scientific choice way shuold be ensurely taken into account in sports for which features like length or weight is a necessity for example; basketball, voleyball, football, rowing, jumping branches etc. In the same way speed, reaction time, equal unison and sport branches in which power is dominant (for example; sprint, judo, hockey and jumps in athleticism etc.). These kind of features can be scanned by the leadership of sport scientists. As a result of scientific test the most talented sportives are chosen as scientific or they are directed to a suitable sport (Kellett and Hede, 2008; Kendall et al., 2010; Kibele, 2006; Lechner, 2009; Lindner and Kerr, 2001).

This application is an organization to discover the childrens who have good features in the way of body, psychological, physical and are to be directed by sistymatic studies in different branches of sport. The aim of this study is to discover the sportive candidates present potential opportunity to predict the development of their some dominant ability and features for the sport they will do to create first conditions. This happens during work unision between dominant ability in some genetic way and environment effect. For this reason sport experts studies were determined according to what kind of a choice they will do mostly during first preparation. It means authority of education, training method, content and organization which take place in raising great sportives have a limit. In addition, it is necessary that some biological features which are conditions to get top sport as fastly and qualified should be present and known by the sport expert (Hugill et al., 2009; Inoue, 2007; Jacobs and Eccles, 2000; Jones and Cunningham, 2008; Joseph, 2006; Manning and Taylor, 2001; Margas et al., 2006).

Steps for ability determination: By the way of making the children start to do sport in which children interested at sport’s first age as long as possible by applying first choice ability test with health evaluation, sending to cure by electing constraints, application of varieted education programme as suitable to child’s age for a year (Smith and Stewart, 2010; Abrahamsen et al., 2007; Martin, 2008; McCarthy et al., 2008; Nicholls, 1984).

Application of first choice ability tests with medical and biologcal evaluation in second year. Collection of sportives who are successful in to a group, others who are suitable by the way of health but successful in lower grade in to a second group. Sending the persons who have health constraints to suitable cure for his condition. Application of education programme which is suitable to their grade for two groups in 3rd year. Application of last choice ability tests with medical and biological evaluation in 4th year. Direction to branch certainly. Then period of training special to branche starts. Last choice can be 3 years according to features of sport branche. The more often applications of periodic cure and test the more information can be gotten (Duda and Ntoumanis, 2003; French and Nevett 1993; Magyar and Feltz, 2003; Manning and Taylor, 2001; Nichols et al., 1991; Nicholls et al., 1989).

Features of talented sportives: The most important problem which will occur in ability choice is creating a first diaognosis while determining which sportive is talented. in spite of this kind of obstacles, present talented sportives are used as criterion to determine the ability and some of their features are examined. Informations which are below are the most valid criterions when we think it in extent of fast data transfer which is a result of some searchment (Ntoumanis and Biddle, 1998; Papaioannou et al., 2008; Park et al., 2007; Plessner and Haar, 2006).

When a talented sportive is examined in this way, it distinguish from less talented sportive with these features (Casper et al., 2007; Funk and Pritchard, 2006; Podlog and Eklund, 2007; Pratorius and Milani, 2006).

He or she can be more successful in training
He or she gets great success in training stimulants whose extent and greatness are same
He or she adapts to new stimulants which are given in training
He or she improves his or her experiences which were gained in past creatively and applies for new stiations
He or she overcomes seven some hard duties successfully and solves the problems as originally
Gradually improvement in performance is a typical features of her or him
A talented sportive devote himself or herself to sport and is hardworking and ambitious and studies as systematically
He or she can do true evaluation even under pressure
He or she has no fear about risk
He or she does not lose his or her power in spite of failures. He or she can form it as an excuse for motivation

When every features of an ability is examined their integrity does not change, they are chosen concept to explain thoroughly every ability concept. Weight point of structure which is a result of these concepts has difference acoording sport branche (Rodriguez et al., 2009; Sam et al., 2005; Schantz and Conroy, 2009; Sit and Linder, 2005).

Scannig activities of ability choice in infrastructure
Investigation activities in region:
Summer school activities, periodic wide ettended selections which was carried out with special announcement, watching local matches, watching school match and scannig of local school (Skinner et al., 2008; Smith, 2003; Sorensen, 1976).

Investigation activities outside of region: Watching small boys and youngs group elections, semi-finals and final, watching primary, secondary and high school group election, semi finals and final. Finding talented sportive with the help of trainer and sport lecturer in different cities and a good searching and scanning in migratory region (Andrews, 2003; Spray et al., 2006; Stracciolini et al., 2007).

The persons who take responsibility to educate the ability
Expectations from trainer:
A successful trainer is a trainer who invests for students benefits than anxiety of defeat or win. What this trainers should do (Lindner and Kerr, 2001; Manning and Taylor, 2001; Margas et al., 2006; Taylor and McGraw, 2006; Tofler and Butterbaugh, 2005).

They sholud be logical for childrens and youngs time, energy and desire if they have a wish
They should not shout and humiliate when they made mistake or lost the contest
Use the effort which you have to refresh your information in training for getting the informations about cihldrens raising and improving
You should always control sportive’s age, length, weight, physical fitness and coordinative abilities and their health situation and divide them into groups according to these features
You should take into consideration children’s maturity grade and contest timetable while counting the training time and making it periodical
You should not think to study with only talented sportives. You should be sensitive for less talented sportives
You should provide the suitableness of materials and foundations to children’s age and ability and security standards for them
You should buy the line of doctor to determine whether a handicapped sportive is ready or not
You should educate that rules are same for everybody and contention in fair-play

Expectations from teachers:

Support the childrens to improve their basic ability in different sport branche. Do not allow excess for early branch choice in maturing ages
Reward with praise children’s effort and good behaviors to improve their ability
Do not forget that improving ability and doing sport as free time eveluation activity is as important as managing a hard contest programme
Give information to them about necessary abilities and their developing grade, so they will have no dissapointment in case of failure or incapability
Be suitable and determined between childrens raising and trainership principles
Do not forget that expectations from child (school, family’s and his expectations) and your expectations should be suitable to children’s capacity
Help the children to understand the differenc between their sport and professional sportives sport on tv (some details can be given like professionals gain money from their sport, so they must be funny)
At the beginning (team games) mini games should be chosen to educate the abilities (Vazou et al., 2005; Vilhjalmsson and Kristjansdottir, 2003; Walters et al., 2009)

Expectations from parents:

Do not press the children to do sport. They should not do sport to satisfy your ambitions. Children are interested in organized sport for their wishes
Support the childrens to do sport by obeying the rules
Educate the children effort and team soul are as important as win and every result should be aceepted as normal
Say children it is normal when they made mistake and when they were beaten
Child learns thoroughly by correct examples. Make them clap their friends in their and rival groups and appreciate
Do not judge the refree’s decisions, their honesty as well in crowded place
Understand the importance and value of trainers. They spend their time and back demands to lead your children
Be a good example for your children by being friend with rival’s parents
Appreciate and praise the child’s effort and improvement (Wang et al., 2009; Wann, 2006; Webster et al., 2001; Weed, 2009)

Expectations from refrees:

Regulate the rulse and comments according to childrens grade
Do not be an obstacle for their fun by piping very often
Be a good example for children with your behaviours in arena or out of it

Table 1: Test used in ability choice

Make your praise as a result of good performance for two team’s or group’s sportives if it is deserved
Be coherent and objective for your decisions
Show behaviours which provide honesty (fair-play)
Offer rule changes which expand attendence to the officials by enyoing sport
Watch the differences in changes for refreeship rules
Struggle to get information for youngs and children’s raising and improvement (Whelan et al., 1991; Whitehead et al., 2004; Williams and Ericsson, 2005)

Spectators duties: Children do sport firstly for fun, then for having self-confidence. They do not do sport to amuse you. Do not watch them as watching professional sportives.

Do not do disturbing behaviours and tell words to sportives, trainers or refrees
Clap rival’s well behaviours as you clapped your team or sportives. Do not forget if they were not, the contest would not be carried out
Never kid with sportive who made mistake during contest and do not rebuke him or her
Never accept the hardness as normal, condemn who makes
Respect the refree’s decisions
Support behaviours which are suitable to contest rules do not appropriate opposite behaviours (Wolfe et al., 2002; Woude et al., 2006)

Press and broadcasting foundation’s duties:

Press and broadcasting foundations can contribute to this area with their broadcast for child sport (by broadcasting private abilities and good behaviours)
Be aware of the diffrences between sport done by adults and attendence of children and youngs to sport
Do not expectate big things from young sportives
Contribute to children’s attentition for public opinion
Criticize the negativeness for education
Do not be a reason for their being out of way socially by acting to sportives as if he or she was a star
Know the difference between amateur sport and professional sport and transfer this to your readers and spectators
Broadcast the childrens and youngs problems and help them to overcome the obstacles for attendence to sport (Zakus et al., 2007; Zarrett et al., 2009; Helsen and Pauwels, 1993; Holt et al., 2009; Hugill et al., 2009; Inoue, 2007)

Test used in ability choice (Slutzky and Simpkins, 2009; Funk and Pritchard, 2006) (Table 1).

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Attendence of many persons to a sport branche is mostly based on traditions, ideals and person’s wishes to attend a branche. Wishes to attend a sport is based on some factors like sport prevalence, family pressure, environmental encouragement etc. According to east European trainer experts these methods are not valid anymore. For instance according to this choice method a person who is gifted for destination run can be an average sprinter related to directions. In other words this kind of approach make sportive get good output infrequently. According to raise distinguished sportives, these approaches prove that trainers should give attention to individuals who have better natural ability than others. In the opposite stiuation of this approaches, trainer’s ability, time and energy will be used uselessly or raise average sportives with the most positive approaches. For this reason the main aim of ability choice is determining and choosing sportives who have good abilities for chosen sport (Smith and Stewart, 2010; Blanchard et al., 2008; Eime and Payne, 2009; Helsen and Pauwels, 1993; Mabe and West, 1982; Sam et al., 2005).

The main idea of all authorities for choosing ability is involving the children and youngs to election and training, controlling them. For this reason training and controlling hundreds of children should not be forgotten. In many countries in Western, sport for everybody campaign is for it. In this campaign education and imitating systems are created that children can test themselves in every branch and improve their abilities. Again for this aim, schools and clubs guarantee that children are directed to sport by working together (Abrahamsen et al., 2007; Beauchamp et al., 2005; Chirivella and Martinez, 1994).

There is no improvement for ability choice in or country. Ability sacnning in early ages is the most important factor for performance improving and sportive output increasing. But in the country no attention for sport and sportive and no neccessary budget’s help for sport by policies which are carried out is an obstacle for this development (Andrews, 2003; Bortoli et al., 2009; Casper et al., 2007).

In the country after ability scanning if trainers who are not expert concern with sportives and sportives do irregular training, children may lose their desire for sport even they may give up. Monotonous practicing creates boring and is a reason for no ability development. On the contrary we may show the same result when expert education is taught to children. So ability choice should work parallel with the increasing importance in country policies.

It neccessary that expert trainers should see sportives abilities and maket hem developed. Ability choice should not have relation with a system in the country. There is no improvement with inadequate experts. For this reason every federation should work in a system not as seperated and inadequate stuff should be evaluated. Great sportives in the country can be thought as the biggest sportives (Slutzky and Simpkins, 2009; Dixon, 2009; Eysenck et al., 1982; Foll et al., 2008; Zuckerman and Stelmack, 2004; Lindner and Kerr, 2001).

Increasing the talented expert number and satisfying making ability choice in centers which will be founded in every city by relating it with a system supporting the sport doctorate and satisfying, controlling and supporting improvements in a system continually, controlling improvements by making relation with units which deal with university sport science making trainership a profession rather than a hobby so graduating from a profession high school will contribute to solution in ability choice.

In addition in frastructure studying in the country, foundating sport high school, determining the aptness of people to which sport in different region and investing to this and different federation’s school activities should be carried out fastidiously and systematically by expert selectors (Smith and Stewart, 2010; Doan et al., 2000; Duda, 1985; Eime and Payne, 2009; Erpic et al., 2004).

CONCLUSION

The aim of this discussion is making the sportives get great performance and increasing the number of talented sportives. It is obvious that activities for this are not enough in the country. It should be provided that searching talented sportives with the help of press, broadcasting foundations and encourage the folk to regulate this situation. Talented sportives should be found with the help of phsycal education teachers. Starting to do sport in early ages is carried out for years in the country. If the country’s sport policies have no improvements, it will be impossible to search talented sportive grade development. It can not be taken into consideration and it can be dangerous for youngs who have private abilities because early ability choice in sport is based on lower criterion. To day, researchments show that the most important encouragement for sport branches for children is a result of qualified organizations. Features of training is also a factor. This is explained in common training programme place which contribute to scientific studies, objectives, different steps of studies and determining new ability criterion (Bennis and Pachur, 2006; Berrett and Slack, 2001; Constantini et al., 2005; Davids et al., 1991; Findlay and Coplan, 2008; Bengoechea and Strean, 2007; Garcia, 2001; Getty, 2006).

As an election rule for children who have no training, it neccessary to give attention to features measurements which will determine the wide productivity of children rather than parameters which will determine productivity special to sport. The principle which should not be forgotten in ability choice is that measurement should be done more times rather than 1 times and then results and a decision should be taken. With connection of scientific conditions, it should no be ignored that evaluation for body capacity and performance limit may result with datums which may be neccessary to be determined in health, nourishment, physcal education and sport branches. It can be said that ability is a result of either biomotoric and psychological develeo pment, genetic features or environment and society’s conditions. Effort should be consumed to spread school basic election factors and determinatyion of ability, performance criterion (2001 SAE-P; Adriaanse and Crosswhite, 2008; Gillet et al., 2009; Goudas and Giannoudis, 2008; Greenlees et al., 2007; Harner and Lo, 2009; Hayen et al., 2007; Helsen and Pauwels, 1993).

Important supplementary measurements which are result of sport medicine and health test advise medical help immediately. But it is not important whether the methods which are expalined here are widespread and valid, ability choice and evaluation has connections with country’s social and cultural situation. The importance of sport which is elite grade can stimulate the youngs to attend sport in contest grade. With the aim of harmony all of present ways and factors, advices by experts and officials will have inclination for effect sport carier to escape from early deduction (Holt et al., 2009; Hugill et al., 2009; Inoue, 2007; Jacobs and Eccles, 2000; Linver et al., 2009; Logan et al., 1984; Gano-Overway et al., 2009; McCarthy et al., 2008; Nicholls, 1984; Nichols et al., 1991).

Summer school and ski school are founded in every place of country. It is nonsense to say that either biological age grade of this school is ok and they are good at starting a sport in suitable age and children are educated according to their age. The most talented and expert trainers are interested in high grade performance sportives rather than beginners. Undoubtedly, beginners need successful trainers. But the shape which is the result of giving inexperienced and apprentice trainers for beginners will be the shape of the sport and human health in the future (Skinner et al., 2008; Smith, 2003; Sorensen, 1976; Spray et al., 2006; Vazou et al., 2005; Vilhjalmsson and Kristjansdottir, 2003; Walters et al., 2009; Wang et al., 2009; Wann, 2006; Webster et al., 2001; Weed, 2009; Wolfe et al., 2002; Woude et al., 2006).

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