The right age

Talent is considered a gift that makes someone shine in a certain discipline: music, math, oratory…we’re talking about a certain group of conditions we have since birth. When we refer it to sports activity we say it is what allows, further than future training, a person to develop naturally and creatively in a certain task, making him or her shine above the rest and, eventually, succeed in the competition.

When a professional team works toward detecting sports talents it starts by submitting a certain population to a series of physical, anthropometric and psychological tests. In general, this search must start at a certain age. The formation of an athlete and the selection of a talent greatly depend on that age, around 9 years old.

Why? There is a stage in the formation of our central nervous system that is crucial for the accumulation of myelin, the amount of white substance and the amount of gray substance, etc. At that age, a young talent detected by a specialized team can receive a whole series of elements towards an optimum psychomotor development and, therefore, to the perfection of innate conditions. This will allow him or her to elaborate, for the sport to be practiced in the future, a vast range of movements that are important for high performance.

Collaborated in this article: Dr. Néstor Lódolo

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