Significance of the components of fencers' academic education at the stage of prior basic training

Abstract

Academic education lays the foundation for further athlete’s perfection. Experts in fencing have offered various approaches to systematization of theoretical matter though its structure and content have been given inadequate validation. Objective of the research was to define the significance of the components of academic educa-tion and to determine its content at the stage of prior basic training in fencing. Twenty experts in fencing, possessing over 20 years’ average employment experience partici-pated in the research. Expert estimation was conducted during the period from 04.12.2012 till 31.01.2013 in the course of training sessions at the premises of “Locomotyv” SC, LDYUSSH No 2 and SK FST "Dynamo" in Lviv. It has been found that equally significant components of fencers’ academic education at the stage of prior basic training are located within the range of 3.21 to 3.4 points.