TO THE QUESTION OF PRIMARY SELECTION IN THE BOXING

The relevance of the study is due to the need to improve the methods of primary selection of children for boxing, which will further improve the effectiveness of their training and competitive activities in this sport. The purpose is to identify the opinion of boxing coaches on the need to improve the primary selection in this sport, new tools, methods and indicators that ensure the quality of the contingent and the effectiveness of sports activities of young boxers. Collection of information was carried out with the help of a questionnaire and the study of special scientific literature, electronic sources on the basis of the Belgorod State National University, Boxing Federation of the Belgorod region, Armavir Pedagogical University. The survey involved 49 coaches from different regions of the Russian Federation aged from 23 to 67 years. The opinions of the coaches were divided: some of them consider the improvement of the content of the primary selection an urgent need, the others deny such a need, and several people could not clearly determine their opinion about the need to improve the primary selection in boxing. During the survey, we proposed to improve the selection methodology, taking into account important criteria and indicators in its content. The leading indicators for the primary selection for boxing were divided into three main groups: physical qualities, psychological indicators, personal qualities of the subjects. At the same time, the analysis of literature and a survey of specialists showed that a number of factors in the recommendations and wishes of trainers are absent (for example, the properties of higher nervous activity, the ability to tolerate physical pain and fear of this pain). The obtained data can be used in the theory and methodology of boxing, as well as in the practical conduct of the primary selection of future boxers. The results of the study may be of some value not only for boxing coaches, but also for specialists in other types of martial arts (for example, for kickboxing, karate, taekwondo, etc.). In the future, there is a need to study the general approaches and provisions in the development of methods of primary selection of young athletes for training in martial arts and to justify the criteria and methods of its implementation, taking into account the specifics of each martial art.