THE RELATION BETWEEN ESTIMATED MOTOR SKILLS WITH FUNCTIONAL MOVEMENT SCREENING AND PERFORMANCE OF GYMNASTIC ELEMENTS ON THE FLOOR ROUTINE AND THE VAULT

Abstract

The aim of this research was to verify the FMS (Functional Movement Screening) method as a
predictor of success in performing gymnastic elements on the floor routine and vault, on a
selected sample composed of 36 male subjects aged 20 - 22 years, students of Faculty of
Physical Education and Sport, University of Banja Luka. A battery of 11 motor skills tests was
assessed: 7 at floor routine (side-to-side and front-to-back cartwheel, roundoff, front and back
handspring, forward and backward flip) and 4 on vault (squat through on the vault and straddle
vault with pre-flight, front handspring on vault, roundoff vault) together with FMS results
all results received normal distribution and a relatively low average FMS value
(14.313), which according to many authors is near the limit of the risk of injury (14). The overall
results of the correlation analysis indicated statistically significant relationship between FMS
and variables PRENAZ (0.049) and SALNAZ (0.038) at significance level of
0.05, while the applied regression analysis gave general information on the prediction model
that showed statistical significance of 0.03 with the predictor variable FMS at the level of significance
0.05. Observing the values of the determination coefficients R2, it was established
that the FMS method can predict the performance of the selected gymnastic elements on the
floor routine and the vault as an integral model, explaining about 96% of the common variability
with a criterion, representing a significant statistical value.