To recognize the relevance of right type of growth dynamic of sports children during childhood by observing the following aspects:
– fundamentals to reach the later high performance,
– health and insurance
– risk of injury
– conception of training.
One way to recognize growth dynamic of sports children is:
– 1. Sensible analysis of longitudinal investigations like short term measurements (daily, weekly, monthly) with calculation of growth velocity and growth acceleration with careful attention.
– 2. The talent identification and selection for high sports performance and other areas of all talented children with different steps in the age range of 7 to 20 years.
– 3. To support the selection for sports schools through reliable sift methods and suitable judgment or manner.
– 4. To see specific norm systems in the development of sports and to assess the changes in the children and youth during the training with different profiles, e.g., different biological age, growth and development rates of the individuals.
Anthropometric methods were used to estimate Somatotype and body composition (muscle mass, skeleton mass and fat mass). The biological age and growth types in different kind of sports can be used in different countries of the world.
The various methods of the investigations are used to describe Body Composition, Somatotype and Growth Type during childhood. It is possible for young sportsmen in different types of sports, using the models for the first time meant that the results were applicable for a longer period, is valid for the whole year in the age groups from 11 to 20 years.
Talent identification and selection is connected with Models of special norms in the field of Sports Anthropology.
The objects are:
1. To secure data on body measurements which reliably describe the characteristics of group, race or stock being studied, and
2. Publish the data in a form which may be readily and safely used for anthropological comparisons and deductions.
3. Growth dynamics and growth types will give more and directly the biological characteristics of the growing child.