The Relationship of the Personal Characteristics of Younger Schoolchildren With the Choice of a Sport (On the Example of Freestyle Wrestling)

The article describes the problem of insuffi cient development of technology, thanks to which it is possible to successfully identify a child of primary school age for a particular sport, in particular, freestyle wrestling. An attempt has been made to select psychological methods that made it possible to confi rm the expediency of using them in subsequent studies in this context. A certain dependence on the properties of strength or weakness of the nervous system of a number of personal-ity traits was obtained. Based on the work carried out, a certain psychological portrait of a freestyle wrestler was created.