ABSTRACT
The problem of developing coordination abilities is one of the least investigated aspects of sport training and one of the most ‘undervalued’ tasks (Hirtz, 1995). For some time, more and more specialists in the field of sport training have recognized the existence of this problem and tried to discern proper functions of coordination training within the training of technique. Many experts emphasize the necessity to determine separate roles, tasks and content of coordination training in the systematic training of athletes in various sports (Hirtz, 1995; Ljach, 1995). In this context, assessment of coordination abilities of athletes, determination of general rules and simulation of processes underlying this phenomenon, emerge as key problems of coordination training. In recent times few research projects have been conducted to determine the main and significant coordination abilities of participants in different sports. Consensus of experts and experimental data are still lacking. More than twenty versatile complex sets of coordination abilities of general, special and specific character have been distinguished (Sadowki, 2003).
