Psychomotor Abilities of Professional Handball Players

Abstract

The main purpose of the paper was to evaluate selected psychomotor abilities of handball players depending on the competition class (league), position on the court, training seniority and the dominant hand. The study covered a group of 40 handball players (age: 24.02 ± 3.99), while 50 non-training men (age: 22.90 ± 1.13) formed the control group. Studies were performed using Test2Drive computer tests. The following four tests were used for measuring psychomotor fitness: simple reaction time test, choice reaction time test, hand-eye coordination test and spatial anticipation test. An analysis revealed that handball players had better reaction times and movement times than the control group. The league, position on the court, training seniority and the dominant upper limb were analysed for their impact on the reaction time and movement time in handball players. An analysis of psychomotor abilities of handball players with regard to the league revealed that in the majority of tests the Superliga players had a shorter reaction time than players in lower leagues.

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Characteristics of Cognitive Abilities among Youths Practicing Football

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“…When the crucial points are that the athlete should not make mistakes and the athlete makes mistakes, it will clearly have an impact on defeat. Therefore how the role of concentration when athletes perform services must be known, as well as the contribution of eye-hand coordination, which plays a very important role in providing service, must also be known by both the athlete and the coach himself, this is useful for considering the development of a training program so that accuracy service becomes more accurate and consistent (Mutasim, et al, 2020;Przednowek, et al, 2019). Feelings of bad performance in competition are more often found in female athletes and athletes who are old (Grossbard, Smith, Smoll, & Cumming, 2009).…”