Athletics Specific Samples for Assessing the Students’ Motor Skills – Jumping and Throwing

Abstract

The paper presents three athletic specific samples used for assessing the motor skills of students from the seventh grade. A pedagogical experiment was conducted in order to see if the jumping and throwing samples are relevant to assess the skills development. The samples used are according to regulations in physical education class: long jump, triple jump and small ball throwing. The jumps are used in the physical education lesson for the achievement of several objectives: training and strengthen the long and height jumping (as main forms), jumping over long or high obstacles; and the development of motor qualities, as well as of specific forms of motrical skills, of which the most important are the force and speed as their combination (springiness). The throws reveal the force and the force-speed dominant group.