Our sport, due to its specificity, requires an earlier start. It is necessary to achieve a satisfactory swimming quality (or mobility in the water) in order to satisfactorily master the technique and tactics of water polo and to start developing motor skills in the water. The best time to start training for several years is between the ages of seven and nine. A student who has mastered the basic swimming techniques can be accepted up to the age of 10 to 12.

Because the swimming school belongs to the first level, we must point out that there are no restrictions for the first course of swimming training, although in our conditions it is difficult to accommodate children under 5 years old, so after learning their training process becomes more fundamental Swimming techniques must be continued very carefully.

The youngest should work with the most professional coaches, with years of pedagogical experience or the ability to absorb and animate children first (and later teach them the basics of this sport).

Introductory preparation for physical activity takes 1 to 2 years, which means boys complete this phase. The most important thing in this period is to create an organizational scheme that will allow maximum progress under the given conditions.

It is very important that the work with the beginner groups is organized across the width of the pool, in order to correct them, through intensive work and pointing out the mistakes, allowing the children to progress quickly and learn the basic movements in water polo . With such an organization of training, the coach can point out mistakes to children as often as possible, establish communication with them and encourage them to continue practicing this sport.

For the trainings with the youngest categories you have to get small goals for children. In addition to good training in swimming and other movements, children of this age should be encouraged to take part in this sport and they should be shown the advantages of this sport.

Water polo education should last until the age of 17, after which senior career should begin.

Gifted children who reach a certain level and have a sense of the game can also play in the first team before the age of seventeen. Such players simply have to train with the senior team because that is the only place where they have proper conditions and competition for further progress.

Normally water polo school lasts about 8 years, however this is not set as a fixed period and rule but is managed individually for each child with reference to the age when the child started playing water polo.

The organizational chart forms part of the program of each specific water polo school and must include the following elements:

1. Kind of reception of the children

Children's enrollment should be done at the association's premises so that parents can fill in the child's personal card during enrollment and be instructed to take the child to the doctor on duty for an examination. All participants must be entered in the internal file, based on the SPORTS HISTORY card that all children or their parents must fill in upon admission. The card is then filled out by the coach and club doctor. When moving from one group to another, the trainers must enter the date of the transition and in this way the card will be taken over. During the first medical examination, the child's health card is opened, which goes into the association's archives together with the completed questionnaire and a file is created on the association's computer. Children without a medical examination are not allowed in the training process!

2. Detailed course content

The course content must be clearly defined and the trainers of these groups must follow it. The trainers need to determine the pace at which the children are progressing and apply exercises accordingly to correct any mistakes. The principle is that gifted and advanced children train and compete with older ones!

3. Criteria for moving from one group to another and when the tests were held

Of course, without clear rules, principles and criteria for evaluating and classifying children into certain age groups, it is not possible to select players correctly and therefore it is difficult to create a system for the education and proper upgrading of a water polo school. Coaches must therefore adhere to certain working frameworks and be aware of their role in the water polo school's educational process.

4. Timely change from group to group based on defined criteria

The director of the water polo school must identify advanced children and transfer them to better groups so that they can progress. The proposal for moving from group to group is made by the coach of that player through a report, observations, tests and the handing over of the "ANAMNESE" card to the head of the water polo school.

5. When taking over children

The trainers of the groups between which the takeover is carried out and the trainer who manages the operation or the manager of the operation of younger categories must be consulted.

6. Every trainer must have a daily, weekly and monthly work scheduler

Each trainer must keep records of participation in the training, he must record each training and state what the working conditions were like at that training. At the beginning of each competition season, the coach must have a detailed work plan and write a report after each competition on how the work program has been implemented and what results have been achieved (team and individual).

Regulations

1. Water polo technique consists of a set of correct biomechanical movements and efficient elements of the game required to solve specific tactical tasks in different game situations. The ability to execute technical elements is necessary to achieve elite sports performance and depends on properly automated technical elements that allow for the successful application of tactics.
2. Sports technique is the rational and efficient execution of movements in order to solve tasks in the training and competition process. Successfully solving these tasks requires a certain level of technical preparation, by which we mean the level of adoption of the movement characteristics of the sports industry.

What is very important: "Technique is closely linked to physical and tactical preparation!" It is very important to work gradually with young athletes, to use sensitive developmental periods for the development of certain anthropomotor characteristics, so that physical preparation does not limiting factor for the development of individual techniques and of course individual tactics that correlate with each other.

The technical preparation can be as follows:

• General
• Specific

The general preparation is the basis for the formation of specific skills. First, the basic movements must be learned technically correctly and then the technical skills are improved.

Specific technical preparation:

• Basic sports technique
• Additional sports technique

The basic consists of basic movements, postures, positions in a certain sport. Top athletes and beginners need to master the basic technique as other skills are built on top of it. The additional sports technique is a technique that is characteristic of individual athletes. It is related to their individual characteristics and based on that we talk about the specific technical style of an athlete.

A good coach is not satisfied with a solid technical knowledge of a specific sport discipline, but must also be well versed in the elements of psychology, sociology and medicine, for the simple reason that his function is closely linked to these fields.< /p>

The coaching profession is very complex and multidisciplinary. Regardless of the trainer's area of expertise, he must master the basics in many areas. He must be mature and aware of his task, which is very responsible because he has a huge impact on athletes in general.

The work of a coach is a specific creative activity and requires the coach to do his job with love, taking pleasure in his work and watching his athletes progress in sport and as individuals in general. In addition to knowledge and experience, good trainers often use their creative skills, innovation, intuition, inspiration, and even improvisation in planning, programming, and delivering the work of a trainer.