the effect of gymnastics and taekwondo trainings on balance, flexibility and jumping parameters in primary school students

This study was conducted to examine the effects of 8-week gymnastics and taekwondo training applied to 8-10 year old primary school students on balance, flexibility and jump parameters. a total of 30 students participated in the study, and the students were randomly assigned to the gymnastics group (gg=10, x̄age=8.70±0.48), the taekwondo group (tg=10, x̄age=8.20±0.42) and the control group (cg=10, x̄age=9.50±0.52). gg and tg performed their branch-specific training at 48-hour intervals, 2 days a week, for a total of 8 weeks. cg did not participate in any sports activities for 8 weeks. in order to evaluate their performance, y dynamic balance test, flexibility test and vertical jump test were applied to the participants before and after 8 weeks. shapiro-wilk test was used to determine the normality distribution of the data. due to the normal distribution of the data, paired sample t test was used to determine the difference within the group, and the independent sample t test was used to determine the difference between the groups. as a result of the study, significant differences were found in the flexibility and jump pre-test results of gg and tg within the group (p<0.05), but no significant difference was found in cg. although there were significant differences in favor of cg in the lower and upper extremity dynamic balance in-group comparison results of the groups, only the right leg anterior value of tg was significantly different (p<0.05). no significant difference was found in cg. as a result of the comparison between the groups, a significant difference was found in favor of gg in the lower extremity left leg composite variable (p<0.05), while there was no statistical difference in all other variables. it was concluded that gymnastics training had a higher positive effect on balance, flexibility and vertical jump parameters compared to taekwondo training.