Teaching-learning of defensive tactics in freestyle wrestlers

Abstract

The article presented highlights the importance of teaching-learning defensive tactics in freestyle wrestling in the 11-12-year-old category of the Guantanamo provincial preselection. It also recognizes the theoretical and methodological limitations in this subject and responds to needs stated in the national and provincial strategies of this sport. Therefore, the improvement of defensive tactics constitutes a proposal directed to coaches to achieve adequate teaching-learning in freestyle wrestlers that involves understanding how to anticipate and respond to the opponent's mistakes. This process is based on tactically preparing favorable conditions for technical actions, counterattacks and defenses. For such purposes, bibliographical analysis, survey, and observation methods were used, from which inadequacies in this process were revealed.