1. Specialized Movement Phase

2. Specialized Movement Skills  Specialized movement skills = task specific  FMS are not task specific  Proficiency barrier

3. Stages of the Specialized Movement Phase  Transition Stage (7-10 year olds) First attempts to refine/combine mature movement patterns Accuracy and skill in lead-up activities Skill and proficiency are still limited

4.  Application Stage (11-13 years olds) Aware of personal physical assets and limitations Individual focuses on certain types of sports Practice, practice, practice

5.  Lifelong Utilization Stage (14 and up) Selects a few activities to regularly participate in Fine tuning stage

6. Youth Sports  Activities taking place outside of school day  Youth sports involvement has increased  Y.S. are controversial in many aspects  WHY?

7.  Healthy Participation in YS Should:

8. Youth Sports  Youth Sport participation is exclusionary  How?

9. Benefits of Youth Sports?

10. Negative Aspects of Youth Sport Participation

11. Coaching Education  Developmental progressions related to specific sport  Certified in First Aid and CPR  Volunteer Coaches Appropriate role models Background consists of playing particular sport, but not teaching of particular sport Little formal preparation required “Coaching Code of Ethics” ( NAYS)

12. Parental Education  Parents Association for Youth Sports (from website) Stops negative parent behaviors before they happen Educates parents on their roles and responsibilities Enhances parent/league relationships Holds parents who are PAYS members accountable for their actions to a Parents' Code of EthicsParents' Code of Ethics

13.  Over possessive parents  Violent incidents at Youth Sport events  Over scheduling of children

14. Drop outs/ Burn outs in YSP  Reasons?

15. Programs  http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/ysi/ http://ed-web3.educ.msu.edu/ysi/  National Alliance for Youth Sport – “Smart Start”