Introduction:

professional education is a single process conducted in higher education facilities in Cuba for comprehensive student training in a particular Bachelor's degree. The education of Physical Culture students is regulated in the Syllabus, which includes degrees that enable training of broad-spectrum professionals who can provide creative solutions with originality, fluency, divergent thinking, and independence to everyday practical problems, which differ from rhythmic and gaming education-oriented in the first academic year.

Aim:

To evaluate the motor creativity levels in first-year students at the Manuel Fajardo University of Physical Culture and Sports Sciences, using content related to rhythmic activities and gymnastic composition in the first unit of the program.

Materials and methods:

Some of the methods used were analytical synthetic, documentary analysis, the empirical distribution of relative and absolute frequencies, and measurements during adaptation to the test to evaluate student motor creativity through the indicators of motor originality, fluency or motor production, motor design or quality, motor redefining, and mental flexibility.

Results:

The application of this test to measure motor creativity proved that first-year students of the Physical Culture Bachelor's Degree have failed to show motor creativity in their Rhythmic and Gaming Education lessons.

Conclusions:

the study showed that more than 78 % of regular students did not have enough motor creativity.

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