Effects of a 10-week detraining period on gross motor skills in young tricking practitioners

Tricking has emerged as a martial arts sport that combines acrobatics, gymnastics, kicks and jumps to create multiple visually striking movements. The effects of a period of detraining in young tricking practitioners still unclear. The main objective of this study was to verify the effect of a 10week detraining period on different motor skills in young tricking practitioners. A group of 17 children (age: 10.18 +/- 0.98 years) tricking practitioners were analyzed in a predetraining period and a post -detraining period using agility test, vertical impulse test, horizontal impulse test and pushup test, sit-up test. The agility and sit-ups variables show significant differences of large effect ( Delta = 6.82, p = .001, d = 2.80; increment = -13.76, p = .003, d = 1.27) respectively. Vertical impulse and push-ups showed significant differences between training phases a moderate effect ( Delta = -5.13, p = .007, d = .85; Delta = -8.37, p = .006, d = 1, 13). Results showed that agility and abdominal strength test sit ups were those that decreased to a greater extent in these subjects with a large effect, being the vertical jump as well as the push up, the motor tests that decreased moderately, while the horizontal jump did not vary significantly. This work is supported by national funding through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., under project UIDB/04045/2020.