Correlation of Power, Agility and Dynamic Balance with Skating Performance in Recreational and Competitive Inline Skaters - A Cross Sectional Study

This research will look to determine the relationship that exists among the physical attributes of power, agility, and dynamic balance, with regard to inline skating performance, amongst recreational inline skaters, as well as competitive inline skaters, all aged 8-15. This particular age group is a crucial period of development, concerning growth, neuromuscular development, and technical skill acquisition, encompassing technical skill acquisition to expert development. It is a period whereby the growth, development, and progressions of the afore-mentioned physical attributes increase exponentially, thoroughly playing a role in influencing the performance. Children and adolescents participating in inline skating need effective power, agility, as well as high ground control, all of which occur during this period of development. Using this particular age group, determining the relationship among the afore-mentioned attributes, concerning inline skating performance, will provide a crucial role for physiotherapy practitioners, as well as training coaches, to provide apt training/rehabilitation programs, concerning optimizing performance, while preventing injuries amongst this particular demographic formative period. Although the particular attributes have been adequately tested within a different sport, on both land and ice, the particular impact among inline skating performance has remained inadequate. This research will look to address this problem by analyzing the relationship among the afore-mentioned physical attributes with skating performance amongst inline skaters.