A study on Movement Tasks as Analogon to acquire the Skills of the Astride Vault

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine what kinds of movement tasks as analogon effect to acquire the skills of the astride vault. Also, it was to examine the reason why the children can not do the astride vault.
In this study, we set up five movement tasks as analogon with having important factors to acquire the skills of the astride vault. The important factors were the ability of sustaining one's body by hands, the ability of shifting one's body weight forward by hands and the skill of orderly jump “foot-hand-foot”. Subjects of this study were 619 (2 to 6 grade) elementary school children.
The result of analysis, correlation coefficient between each task and achievement of the astride vault were significantly. This result suggested the five tasks have connection to acquire the astride vault. Also, the results of calculated multiple regression, TOBIDASHI: leaping down by one's hands from a vaulting horse with sitting position, and TAIYA-TOBI: vaulting over an automobile tire, effected to achievement of the astride vault. This result meant the shifting one's body weight forward by hands was very important factor to acquire the astride vault.
In addition, we examined about low-skilled children, We obtained a suggestion that they have not gotten the skill of shifting one's body weight forward by hands.