Building distance control skill in student athletes of sport tourism specialization

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A.S. Konovalov1
PhD, Associate Professor N.V. Soboleva1
PhD S.V. Sobolev1
PhD O.N. Ratueva1
A.V. Vapaeva1
1Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk

Objective of the study was to evaluate the level of formation of the distance control skill in highly-skilled orienteering athletes with the subsequent development and testing of a set of exercises to develop the distance control skill in student athletes of sport tourism specialization.
Methods and structure of the study. The study included a questionnaire survey of the highly-skilled sport orienteering athletes and coaches, ascertaining and formative experiments, and a specially developed set of exercises to develop the distance control skill.
The following test was used as a control one in both the ascertaining and formative experiments: the subjects were to make 15 "cutoffs" on the GPS tracking units every 100 m covered, "intuitively", relying on their internal sensations only. The GPS device screens were closed by the test conductors so that the subjects did not see the current reading of the tracking unit and thus were not able to adjust the "cutoffs".
Results and conclusions. In the course of the interviews with the athletes and their coaches, it was found that the distance control skill is an integral part of technical fitness and competitive activity of top-ranking orienteering athletes. To accept this opinion, the ascertaining experiment was conducted, which confirmed the assumption that the distance control skill is cultivated in highly-skilled orienteering athletes during their training and competitive activities.
The experimental study on the development of the distance control skill proved its effectiveness and advisability of its further application in the process of training of student athletes of sport tourism specialization.

Keywords: sport orienteering, sport tourism, distance control, student athletes, GPS device.

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