Usefulness of the psychomotor tests for distinguishing the skill levels among older and younger judo athletes (original) (raw)

Background Cognitive functions of combat sports contestants, such as visual perception, information processing, divisibility of attention and eye-limb coordination play an important role in solving the problems related to tactic and strategy during a fight. The purpose of this study was to answer the question: whether performance level of the two various psycho-motor tests is linked to the sport levels among male judo athletes. Material & methods: The psychomotor studies involved four groups of male judo athletes. Two groups were composed of high ly skilled senior members of the Judo National Team (HSS, n = 18, age 22.7±3.0) and junior members of the Judo National Team (HSJ, n = 24, age 17.8±0.9), who were more successful than the others and therefore were called up to the Polish National Team. Two other groups were less successful and possessed lower skills, i.e. seniors (LSS, n = 24, age 23.2±3.3) and juniors (LSJ, n = 26, age 18.8±0.6), who were not selected into the national tea...