RESPONSE TIME PHYSICAL FITNESS ASSESSMENT FOR ROUND KICK OF COMBATIVE ATHLETES

Abstract

           The objectives of the research article were 1) to create a response time measuring instrument for round house kicks of martial athletes, 2) To study the round house kick response time of combat sports, and 3) to assess the round house kick reaction time among athletes. Subjects of this research were 45-combative athletic volunteers of central Zone of Thailand National Sports University aged 18-25 years divided as 10-mail and 5-female Panchak Silat, 10-mail and 5-female Taekwondo and 10-mail and 5-female Muay Thai. To separate groups of subjects with reaction times and analyze the data for Pearson's correlation coefficient.

           The research results revealed that: 1. Reaction time measuring instrument has created with 5-male subjects and 5-female subjects separately from research volunteer with content validity of 0.93. 2. Tried out of a reaction time measuring instrument reliabilities in this study was 0.89 for reaction time, 0.92 for movement time, respectively, the objectivities was  0.94) for reaction time, and 0.93 for movement time, respectively. 3. A round house kicking ability tests for the effectiveness of combative athletes among 45 combative athletic volunteers, divided as male and female groups. This study resulted that 10-volunteers had a very good reaction time, 14 volunteers had a very good movement time, 18- volunteers had a good movement time, 19-volunteers had a good movement time, 5-volunteers had an average reaction time, 5-volunteers had average reaction time 5 had an average movement time, 12-volunteers had slow reaction time, and 7-volunteers had slow movement time. Therefore, this study concluded that reaction time measuring instrument that researcher created possessed a high quality of fidelity and confidence. It can be used as reaction performance assessment for kicking abilities of combative athletes.