Indicators to control and evaluate the acrobatic technical component of the national Cheerleading teams of Colombia

Abstract

The research took place in Colombia, a country where Cheerleading is widely accepted in university sports; In this country, in this sport, a characteristic of the preparation of its national teams is the training in periods of concentration, where the need to control and evaluate the acrobatic technical component of these teams has been confirmed. To satisfy this need, it was essential to determine the indicators, so the objective was specified: to define the quality indicators of the technical acrobatic actions of Cheerleading and their evaluation scales. To achieve this objective, a creative process was used in which the members of the coaching group intervened as protagonists in the production of knowledge, while their proposals were validated and corrected by the best specialists in the country as experts. The quality indicators of the technical actions were arrived at, a classification of these, unprecedented for Cheerleading; as well as the execution and effectiveness rating scales as elements to consider in the control and evaluation of that component in Cheerleading.