Improving the technical training of young dancers in the European sports ballroom dancing program

Relevance. The process of rejuvenation in sports ballroom dancing caused, firstly, the need to rethink and supplement the already established rules, principles, approaches in sports training of athletes; secondly, it puts on the agenda a number of new issues related to the need to develop new training methods. The creation of scientific and methodological developments aimed at improving the process of technical training of dancers at the stage of specialization, taking into account the peculiarities of motor actions of the European sports ballroom dancing program, seems relevant and timely. The purpose of the study is to increase the level of technical preparedness of young dancers aged 9-12 years on the basis of the author's methodology for improving technical training, focused on the specifics of the dance technique of the European program. Organization and methods of research. The pedagogical experiment was conducted in the preparatory and competitive periods of the annual cycle on the basis of the Vega-Step collective (Moscow) The Open Sports Dance Federation, which is part of the Russian Dance Union, with the participation of 30 dance couples. The experimental (EG) and control (KG) groups consisted of 15 dance pairs each, who had completed 2-3 years of training. The experimental group used the author's method of improving the technical training of dancers aged 9-12 years at the stage of sports specialization, taking into account the specifics of the technique of the European sports ballroom dancing program. The methodology is based on complexes of specially preparatory and competitive exercises developed for five dances of the European program (slow waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow foxtrot, quickstep), built into the training structure at the stages of the annual cycle. Research methods: general scientific (study, theoretical analysis and generalization of data from special and scientific-methodical literature, program documents), theoretical (systematization and classification), pedagogical (pedagogical observation, analysis of video materials, expert assessment, pedagogical experiment), mathematical statistics.