An Analysis On Factors Influencing The Development Of Young Children Basic Gymnastics In Shijiazhuang City

Young children basic gymnastics is a kind of team sport practiced mainly by preschool children, featured by empty-handed physical jerks supplemented by simple techniques, diversified formation and model, and brightly-rhymed music. It combines body-training, mass participation, competition and entertainment together, simple but practical. The sport is quite popular among young children for its body-training, psychological training and entertainment values and serves as an important means to involve children into sport activities and to implement quality education for children, which is significant to the overall development of the young children.The practice of the young children basic gymnastics in Hebei province started relatively late with comparatively narrow coverage. From 2000 Shijiazhaung city has held 7 exhibition games (2003 exhibition game is suspended because of the SARS epidemic). Besides, the city has selected 12 kindergarten teams to participate the national exhibition games and won six first prizes and four first prizes by the national media, which spurs the development of the young children basic gymnastics and shows the vitality of the sport. In order to better propagandize and promote the healthy, steady and ordered development of the sport, it is necessary to carry out the research into the factors influencing its development.The methods of literature documentation, questionnaire, interviewing experts, logical analysis, and mathematic statistics are deployed in the research into factors influencing development of young children basic gymnastics in Shijiazhaung city.The following are the conclusion made through analysis:1. The major factor influencing basic gymnastics development of young children in Shijiazhuang city is leaders' attitude. Although a majority of leaders in the kindergartens support basic gymnastics development of young children, yet some still do not give enough attention to the sport due to the lack of understanding.2. The coach group is young and energetic with high education level. However, they lack the ability to do scientific research due to their short of teaching and training experience and incomplete ability-structure. They need further study and improvement.3. The parents do not have enough understanding of the sport. They support their children to participate training and performance of sport because "their children like it" but with little active involvement.4. The organizers of young children basic gymnastics in Shijiazhaung city dedicate themselves to the course of children education without concerning the payment and make great contributions to the development and popularization of the sport. However, due to the aging of the leadership, the recruit of young carders is necessary.5. Notwithstanding the abundance of the documents and information, the coaches do not have enough channels in getting them due to lacking of communication.6. Young children basic gymnastics has been integrated into the education plan as an important physical education and body training means in kindergartens in Shijiazhuang city. Although it has become a grand occasion, its development is still not balanced due to structure problem which "stresses more on performance while pays less attention on popularization".The following suggestions are proposed concerning the factors affecting the, development of young children basic gymnastics in China.1. Raise the awareness of leadership in kindergarten level.2. Speed up construction of the site, equipment and facilities for the performing young children basic gymnastics in kindergarten level.3. Improve teacher-training system so as to speed up the training of teachers for performing basic young children gymnastics.4. Seek supports from government and relevant departments.5. Preserve the basic features of young children basic gymnastics with a balanced development so as to avoid the problem of "stressing more on performance while paying less attention on popularization".6. Further strengthen the propaganda by publicizing the documents and information of performing young children basic gymnastics through media such as television, newspaper and magazine, and internet so as to win more support. 7. Built a sound management mechanism so as to supervise the leaders in charge of young children basic gymnastics work to organize well in training of teachers, performance and competition.