TECHNICAL AND TACTICAL TRAINING OF WATER POLO PLAYERS AT THE STAGE OF PRELIMINARY BASIC TRAINING TAKING INTO ACCOUNT GAME ROLES

Abstract

In the modern conditions of water polo development, achieving high results is impossible without performing extreme loads to human capabilities. Thanks to the trend of recent years regarding the commercialization of sports, the competition calendar has become tighter and the competitive struggle has intensified. Differentiated approaches to the training of athletes, taking into account psychophysiological characteristics, have been successfully implemented in various game sports and martial arts in recent years. Based on these trends, the issue of taking into account the psychophysiological characteristics of athletes and their roles in the construction of the training process in water polo becomes relevant. The purpose of our study was to increase the level of technical and tactical training of water polo players at the stage of preliminary basic training, taking into account game roles. In the course of our research, a survey of 20 water polo coaches was conducted regarding the features of training water polo players, the identification of the most gifted athletes at the initial stages of long-term training, as well as psychophysiological characteristics in the system of training water polo players. Psychophysiological characteristics of qualified water polo players were also measured. Based on these data, an author’s program for improving the technical and tactical training of water polo players at the stage of preliminary basic training was created based on their differentiation by playing role, and its effectiveness was experimentally verified. The criterion for the effectiveness of the author’s experimental program of technical and tactical training of water polo players, taking into account their playing role, is the dynamics of indicators of psychophysical characteristics and improvement of the level of technical training during the period of the experiment.