Methodological basis of initial water polo training

The relevance of the problem under research is determined by the fact that so far there is no literature that would in a fairly complete manner cover the issues of initial training of specific techniques. At the same time, active growth of popularity of women’s water polo has entailed the need to engage practicing female athletes into coaching. In this situation the lack of the required methodological literature on initial training becomes even more essential. Methodology – the purpose of this article is to determine the structure of ball handling training process through identifying the sequence of learning specific techniques. The work includes surveys, analysis and synthesis, as well as empirical study method – an experiment. Findings – this work present a special set of exercises aimed at training of initial ball handling techniques in water polo. Significance – the materials of this article may be found useful by the students of physical education departments, water polo coaches, as well as by teachers of extended educational system.