The Impact of Special Exercises on Cognitive Speed and Learning Some Basic Skills in the Horizontal Bar for Students in Artistic Gymnastics

Abstract

The current study was conducted in order to develop the cognitive speed and learn some basic skills in the horizontal bar in artistic  gymnastics for students. The experimental method was used on the students of the second stage of the College of Basic Education,  Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences, with the subject of artistic gymnastics for boys, numbering 20 students, who were divided into two equal groups. Each of them was consisted of (10) students , as the experimental group was carrying out the special exercises, while the control group used the method followed by the teacher.The aim of the study is to set special exercises in cognitive speed and learn some basic skills of in the horizontal bar in the artistic  gymnastics for students , and to identify the effect of special exercises on cognitive speed and learn some basic skills in the in the horizontal bar in the artistic  gymnastics for students.Having conducted the pretest and posttest process for the two groups, and obtained their results , the data were processed statistically. The researcher concluded that the special exercises that were applied in the implemented educational session had a positive effect in the process of special exercises in cognitive speed and learning some basic skills in the horizontal bar in the artistic  gymnastics for students.