Perfecting batting technique in university baseball athletes five

Abstract

This article aims to achieve the technical improvement of the university athletes of Baseball Five. This new sports modality that emerged at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, has a creative, developmental nature and maintains an excellent quality of life. The review of the state of the art through various search methods detected insufficient research; Well, until now, Baseball Five is seen as a new sport. However, while the research records of the authors referenced in the body of the article deal with similar topics in their research but in conventional Baseball (which served as support to develop the teaching methodology for some exercises); The comprehensive preparation program for the Baseball athlete was of vital support. For this, a diagnosis was carried out through the development of three competitions at the provincial and national level that showed errors in the execution of the technical elements, especially in the batting technique, detecting difficulties in the technical preparation of five-lo baseball university athletes. which made it impossible to achieve the planned result of obtaining first place. Therefore, the objective is set: to carry out a set of exercises to improve the batting technique in the Baseball Five athletes of the Universidad de Oriente. The use of theoretical and empirical methods, Analysis-Synthesis, Induction-Deduction, Observation, Interview and Survey during the research process, allowed us to base the proposal and its feasibility according to the criteria of specialists. This set of exercises managed to perfect the execution of the batting technique, taking into account the phases of technical preparation.