Raring2go! Solihull

13 Raring2go! HOLIDAY CLUBS Why is children’s sport so important? Sport is incredible. In one line, you could argue that sport is the single biggest contributor to physical and mental development that a child could ever receive. Vital to every single child’s growth, sport provides children with the perfect space to learn positive values, teamwork, fair play and more. The benefits are enormous. Not only do they become physically fitter, and healthier; children will often make their first friendships through sport, find their first role models, and learn from examples set out by their coaches. A perpetual contributor to developing positive values and character traits in children, sport is so very unique. But you already know all of that. Right?! One side of sport that you may have undervalued in the past is the importance for children to become multitalented and develop their skills in more than one sport. Between the ages of 5-11, your child generally does not have a primary sport. It’s important that they get as much exposure as possible, to as many sports as possible. The results are very simple. A better overall skillset and ability to perform at a high level, in combination with a smarter, more aware decision- making brain. That’s why many of the world’s most successful athletes grew up playing more than one sport. For more information about our sports camps, please head to www.teamsupersports.co.uk or call 01675 488 494 To view the rest of this article, and find out what prominent English Football Coach Tony Strudwick credits the success of the majority of top athletes to, head to raring2go. co.uk/solihull/articles/ clubsandclasses