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- Title
Morphological, Motor and Technical Determinants of Fighting Efficiency of Croatian Female Cadet Age Karate Athletes.
- Authors
Jukić, Josefina; Katić, Ratko; Bala, Gustav
- Abstract
The aim of this research was to determine the significance of morphological factors, factors of basic motor and spe-cific motor abilities, and the factors of technical efficiency, on the karate fight success in Croatian female cadet karate athletes. With this purpose, the group of 18 anthropometric measures, 10 basic motor tests, 5 situational karate motor tests, the group of 8 evaluations of 6 basic karate techniques, and 2 karate kata performances was applied on the sample of 101 Croatian karateka aged 14 to 16. Inside the morphological area, the factor analysis isolated: Body mass and volu-me factor, Subcutaneous fat tissue factor, Longitudinal skeleton dimensionality factor, and Transversal fist dimensio-nality factor; in the basic motor area: General motor efficiency factor; in the situational motor area: General specific mo- tor efficiency factor; in the area of karate technique performance evaluation: General technical efficiency factor. After that, the application of canonical discriminative analysis determined the differences between high and lower quality ka- rate athletes in the overall area of the isolated factors. The discriminative function showed that high quality female ka- rate athletes compared to those of lower quality differ the most in higher technical efficiency, higher basic and specific efficiency, while having somewhat less fat tissue and somewhat wider wrist and fist diameter.
- Subjects
MOTOR ability; MARTIAL artists; KARATE; CROATS; ADIPOSE tissues
- Publication
Collegium Antropologicum, 2013, Vol 37, Issue 4, p1253
- ISSN
0350-6134
- Publication type
Article