The relations between anthropometric characteristics and coordination skills

The aim of the research was to determine the nature of the relation between the anthropometric characteristics and coordination skills on a sample of girls and boys. A total of 91 boys and 85 girls made up the sample of subjects. They were all first grade elementary school students from Ms. We used three measures for the evaluation of longitudinal dimensionality (body height, leg length, and arm length), three measures for the evaluation of transversal dimensionality (shoulder width, pelvic width and hip width), five measures for the evaluation of circular dimensionality and body mass (body weight, thorax volume, upper arm volume, thigh volume and calf volume) and five measures for the evaluation of subcutaneous fatty tissue (triceps skin folds, subscapular skin folds, abdominal skin folds, thigh skin folds and medial calf skin folds). The following measuring instruments were used for the evaluation of coordination skills: horizontal jump rope, 20 side steps with a baton, and running and rolling (a newly constructed test). A multivariate analysis of variance showed that there is a statistically significant difference between the coordination skills of the boys and girls at the p=0.003 level. There is no statistically significant connection between the anthropometric characteristics and coordination skills for the sample of boys, while there is one for the girls. The resulting canonical factor of anthropometric characteristics was defined as the factor of transversal dimensionality, circular dimensionality and subcutaneous fatty tissue, and the canonical factor of coordination skills was defined as the general factor of coordination.