First of all, it all depends on the individual characteristics of the children themselves. It is necessary to evaluate the child as objectively as possible. The child’s predisposition to a particular sport is best seen in the range from 5 to 7 years. Of course, it is possible to give the baby to the section earlier, but this is not a more reliable choice.
The global task is to maximize the use of children’s natural data.
For example, a child is overweight, and he is dragged to the football section, based on the fact that he will lose weight at the same time. This is wrong. In football, mobility and coordination are important, and the constitution of this child is a guarantee that the training process will turn into a complete humiliation for him. Of course, all this can lead to rejection of sports in general. Full children are much more suitable for swimming, judo, some types of athletics or hockey – this, by the way, is the same game sport in which a fair weight is even welcome.
Next – growth. It’s no secret that tall people are especially appreciated in games such as basketball and volleyball. Body length in centimeters is such an important factor for these games that coaches are ready to forgive potential students for some slowness and mediocre coordination of movements. So if the child is growing well, you need to pay attention first of all to “parquet” sports. In addition, based on the height of the parents, it is possible to predict the future dimensions of the child – in tall adults and the child, as a rule, reaches decent indicators. By the way, there are cases when high growth becomes a hindrance to classes. In gymnastics, for example, they do not like lanky people, considering them ungainly and unpromising.
As for football and hockey, there are quite strict criteria here: speed, agility, sharpness. Speed is the only quality that cannot be “instilled” – it is given by nature, and it can only be increased by 10% during training – it is scientifically proven. Therefore, no matter how much you would like to satisfy your parental ambitions by taking your child with the most popular game in the world, it is hardly worth tormenting a phlegmatic guy with a deliberately useless process. It is necessary to check: perhaps he is a future world champion in bowling – there are such sections.