Development of a “Throwing ability improvement dance” for elementary school students

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  • 小学生のための投能力向上ダンスの開発
  • ショウガクセイ ノ タメ ノ トウノウリョク コウジョウ ダンス ノ カイハツ

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According to the National Physical Fitness and Exercise Ability and Exercise Habits Surveys, children’s physical fitness and exercise ability have either leveled off or improved from the previous declining trend. However, the record for ball throwing has been at an all-time low year after year, posing a major challenge from the perspective of fostering well-balanced motor skills among children. Therefore, in this study, we created a throwing ability improvement dance (100sec, 168BPM), which is expected to help children acquire desirable long-throwing motion by dancing it happily, and examined its effectiveness in improving throwing ability. The dance was designed to help children acquire desirable long-throwing motion through repetitive dancing. In the experiment, elementary school students danced for two weeks (10 days). Throwing distance and throwing motion were measured before and after the dance period, and the results showed that throwing motion improved and throwing distance increased, suggesting that the dance was effective in improving throwing ability.

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