The purpose of the current study was to investigate the effects of an eight-month intervention program on
fundamental motor skills for sports talented children. Forty-four children were selected by Korea Sport Talent
Search System (KOSTASS) for Sports Talented Program (STP). STP has been planned to provide training
session for specific sports skills (e.g. swimming, gymnastic, and track and filed) and gross motor development
for fundamental motor skills. A total forty-four children participated in the STP and were assessed pre and
post assessment using Test of Gross Motor Development-2. Twenty-seven children who had injury or did not
participate both pre and post test due to personal reason were excluded. Raw score from seventeen children
aged from 8 to 11 were selected and analyzed using paired-samples t test. Others who did not concentrate on
the assessment or had muscular injuries were excluded. All assessment procedure was videotaped and three
professionals rated children’s motor performance. The inter-rater reliability among the three evaluators (ICC
values from .77 to .97) indicated strong congruent results among the three raters. Motor development program
was conducted to enhance gross motor skills, e.g. locomotor and object manipulation skills. Each session
consisted of 2-hour protocol to develop motor coordination, and muscular strength and endurance. Trained
physical activity instructors conducted the program for all participants. The program focused to develop
funamental motor skills, e.g. locomotor skills (running, galloping, hopping, leaping, sliding, and horizontal
jumping) and object manipulative skills (throwing, catching, striking with stationary ball, rolling, dribbling).
The gross motor skill performance was significantly improved after the intervention (p=.001). Total score of
pre and post assessment were 87.07.9 and 92.54.7, respectively. It seems that motor development program
conducted by trained physical activity instructors could affect development of gross motor skills.