Match Analysis in a University Taekwondo Championship

Abstract

The aim of this study was to analyze the performance of medallists' taekwondo athletes in University level Championship. Kicking actions were grouped into three categories; circular, linear and with a previous spin kicks. Performance was evaluated based on 1) the type and height of the kicks employed, 2) the attacking and counterattacking nature of the kicking actions and 3) the scoring profiles of these. Forty-five matches from the four Olympic weight categories were notationally analyzed in male and female populations. Kruskal-Wallis tests revealed that the reading scores in the four weight categories differed significantly in males for linear kicks, and in circular kicks to the chest, attacking kicks and total actions (p < 0.05) for females. A greater number of circular kicks was recorded in male and female taekwondo athletes; this was followed by linear kicks and those with a previous spin. Kicks to the chest were also more common than kicks to the head as well as attacking kicks were used more frequently than counterattacking kicks. Given the new competition rules, coaches are encouraged to induce athletes to increase the frequency of kicks to the head and with a previous spin to maximise the point scoring rate per kicks delivered.

Successful tactics in taekwondo during Sukan Malaysia 2012

“…Winners succeed in defending tactics because non-winners executed more in attacking But what makes winners win may also be related to target area and technique used during the match. According to Falco et al, (2012), a kick to the head together with a spinning movement will maximise the points scoring based on new taekwondo competition rules. The result of scoring areas can be found in table 3.…”

Análise de frequência das ações técnico-táticas competitivas no taekwondo: uma revisão

“…Em contrapartida, movimentos defensivos são caracterizados pelos bloqueios e/ou esquivas aos gestos do adversário . Poucas pesquisas revelaram adaptações na organização técnico-tática de lutadores elite em comparação com não-elite (i.e., Casolino, et al, 2012;Falcó, et al, 2012;Kazemi, et al, 2013;Menescardi, et al, 2012). Por exemplo, atletas de elite, em 2008, adotaram uma tática conservativa, utilizando mais ações de contra-ataque para pontuar (Kazemi, et al, 2010), diferente de dados com lutadores universitários, mostram que as ações de ataque são mais frequentes do que as ações de defesa em ambos os sexos, com predominância de chutes circulares e preferência para técnicas desferidas na altura do tronco .…”

Techniques Used by Elite Thai and UK Muay Thai Fighters: An Analysis and Simulation

“…For example, in Taekwondo technique profiles of youth taekwondo performance have been studied and identified (Casolino et al, 2012), on differences in technique frequency between medalists and non-medalists (Kwok, 2012) and differences across different weight classes and genders (Falco, Landeo, Menescardi, Bermejo, & Estevan, 2012). Ring combat sports similar in nature to Muay Thai have also received some attention.…”

“…These range from parametric tests such as independent t-tests (Häyrinen, Hoivala, & Blomqvist, 2004;Laird & McLeod, 2009), one-way ANOVAs (Kwok, 2012) and factorial ANOVAs (El-Ashker, 2011;Ibáñez at al., 2009), as well as a range of non-parametric tests including Mann-Whitney U tests (O'Donoghue & Ingram, 2001;Ortega, Villarejo, & Palao, 2009) and Kruskal-Wallis one-way ANOVA by ranks (Falco et al, 2012;Lago-Peñas, 2010). While standard parametric procedures used can be appropriately applied when data are normally distributed and fulfill all other parametric assumptions, often the count data collected in notational analysis do not follow a normal distribution (Nevill et al, 2002).…”