Female students' motor skills development by means of Kangoo Jumps

Abstract

The aim of the study is to test the effectiveness of Kangoo Jumps experimentally for the development of female students’ motor skills. The main objectives of the study are: to study the interests and motivation of female students for physical education classes, as well as their attitude to Kangoo Jumps classes; to determine the informatively significant indicators of the development of motor skills of female students during Kangoo Jumps classes; and to develop the author's program for the development of female students’ motor skills by means of Kangoo Jumps and test its effectiveness. The research was conducted at T. H. Shevchenko National University "Chernihiv Collegium" during 2019-2021. To solve the first objective of our research, we conducted a survey of 1st and the 2nd year female students (n = 286) according to the questionnaires developed by us; to solve the second objective we investigated the level of development of motor skills of 2nd year female students of the Faculty of Physical Education (Pilot Study Group (PSG), n = 32), who attended the university section of Kangoo Jumps. The author’s program of training sessions with Kangoo Jumps for female students of other faculties of the university was developed based on the research. We organized the pedagogical experiment in order to test the effectiveness of the author’s program which involved 1st year female students who were engaged in the author’s program during their physical education sessions (experimental group (EG), n = 30). Assessment of the development of motor skills was carried out on the following indicators: torso leaning forward from sitting position, push-ups, lifting torso to the sitting position over 1 min, Cooper test, running 100 m, shuttle running 4x9 m., stabilographic test of basic exercise on Kangoo Jumps – “Fly”, tensodynamic test of the basic exercise on Kangoo Jumps – “Jumping Jack”. Significant improvement in the level of development of motor skills in the EG female students (p ≤ 0.05) was revealed, which testifies to the effectiveness of the author’s program for the development of female students’ motor skills by means of Kangoo Jumps.