Os benefícios do karatê no desenvolvimento social e motor, em crianças e adolescentes entre 8 a 12 anos de idade na academia banzai em Goiânia-Go

Abstract

The Karate, its origin, its history in Brazil and how it is today, besides teaching blows and defenses for its practitioners, has a very important socio-educational value for its practitioners. Our objective was to identify the benefits of Karate in the social and motor development of children and adolescents in the age of group between 8 and 12 years of age. We used the cross-sectional descriptive study, the researched population is composed of children and adolescents duly enrolled in the BANZAI academy in Goiânia-GO. The practitioners obtained a global motor quotient of 95, being considered normal coordination (86≥MM ≤ 115), we applied the KTK test to obtain this result and the anamnesis, where we conclude that Karate beneficially influenced the motor, educational and ethical abilities of the children adolescents from this research.