System of exercises for improving the freestyle kick technique in university students

Abstract

The present research is based from a theoretical point of view on previous studies on swimming styles, the teaching of technique and its phases in the crawl style and some research experiences in different age groups. The foray into diagnosing the teaching-learning process of one of the technical phases of this style in university students (n=42) during the pretest demonstrated limitations in its execution, which allowed the objective to be declared to demonstrate the effectiveness of a system. of exercises in the execution of the kick technique in students of the Pedagogy of Physical Activity career at the State University of Milagro in Ecuador. As the main methods, measurement was used with the application of tests that allowed measuring the displacement and dynamic characteristics of the execution of the kick in a single-group, cross-sectional, pre-experimental design. As a fundamental result, the effectiveness of a system of exercises and games was corroborated, which was able to demonstrate significant changes from the post-test to the pre-test with the application of the Sign Test with Wilcoxon ranges, which showed that α= 0.00 ≤ 0.05.