Development of Optimal Performance Indicators for Chinese Youth Badminton Players
Abstract
Background and aim: The badminton program is one of the strongest sports in China. In recent years, it has been faced with two challenges, such as the problem of cultivating Chinese junior badminton athletes and the pressure of international competition brought by the rapid progress of junior athletes from Thailand, Denmark, India, and other countries. This study aims to establish the evaluation system of youth badminton performance is crucial to providing scientific, systematic, and comparable data and suggestions for the General Administration of Sport of China and the development of badminton in China.
Methods: This study used the questionnaire method to investigate and analyze the factors affecting the performance of Chinese junior badminton athletes. The whole population sampling method was used to sample the youth badminton athletes and coaches in Guangdong Province, China. A total of 420 questionnaires were distributed and 400 questionnaires were valid, including 265 males and 135 females. The Delphi method was used to screen and construct the evaluation indexes of the best sports performance of Chinese youth badminton athletes. 19 people, including professors, national coaches, and high-level athletes, formed a panel of experts, and the evaluation indexes were discussed and screened in two rounds.
Results: The results showed that the factors affecting the performance of Chinese junior badminton athletes were five aspects, including the length of athletes' training, the level of coaches' training, the level of athletes' grades, the athletes' best performance, and the athletes' situation. The evaluation indexes of Chinese youth badminton athletes' best performance include three primary indexes: physical quality, competitive strength, and game performance; seven secondary indexes: body form, physical function, physical quality, technical ability, tactical ability, psychological ability, and motor intelligence; and seventy-one tertiary indexes, such as lung capacity, one-minute pull-ups, badminton slamming, and self-control ability.
Conclusion: The factors affecting the performance of Chinese junior badminton athletes are complex and diverse. A three-level multidimensional evaluation index of the best sports performance of Chinese junior badminton athletes was constructed to provide a scientific basis for the training of Chinese junior badminton athletes and to provide reference data for the General Administration of Sport of China to formulate badminton development policies.
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