Statistics And Analysis Of Men's Technical Movements In The 2013 World Taekwondo Championships

With the usage of electronic body protect(EBP), the Chinese male athletes not only have a good performance but also obtain excellent achievements in various worldwide competitions.However, there are some shortcomings comparing with Taekwondo athletes from South Korea,Iran, the United States and other countries. In order to win gold medal in the World Series and the Olympics, it is necessary to have better understanding on development trend and usage of skilled movement of elite athletes in other countries. In previous research, the study focus on male athletes as research participants. Furthermore, the studies on Taekwondo mainly focus on National Championships and National Games whereas the studies on international competition are slightly poor so that we can not profoundly analyze the reason why problems appeared in the angle of research. Due to the gigantic change of skilled movement in the case of widely application of electronic body protect, we should make effort to analyze the development trend of skilled movement that international elite athletes use. The application of electronic body protect greatly improve diversification of skilled movement in Taekwondo. Through literature review, we discover that the study about the tactics of World Series still stay at the 2009 World Championships. In the past four years, the new understanding about electronic body protect is developed by coaches and athletes. Thus, there are plenty of new changes on usage of skilled movement. The aim of the study is to analyze the technique of the outstanding male Taekwondo athletes by researching 50 men’s games in the 2013 World Championship.The major findings is that:1. The most frequently used techniques are foreleg crosskicks, rear leg crosskicks and push kicks, followed by axe kicks, flying kicks, horse kicks and back spinning kicks. Whirlwind kicks,hook kicks and boxing are the least used techniques.2. The foreleg crosskicks, rear leg crosskicks, axe kicks and push kicks contribute most to scoring, followed by flying kicks, horse kicks, back spinning kicks and hook kicks. Whirlwind kick and boxing are lower on the contribution list.3. Among various types of foreleg kicking techniques, foreleg interception, stepping foreleg kick and direct foreleg offence are most employed, but bears low rate of success. Stepping foreleg high kick and foreleg high interception enjoys high rates of success though not so frequently used. The foreleg counters, foreleg high offences as well as foreleg high counters are low in both employment and scoring rate.4. Among various types of rear leg kicking techniques, rear leg offences and rear leg counters are most employed, but bears low rate of success. Close range rear leg techniques are more employed, with high rates of success. The stepping back counters and rear leg high kicks are seldom used, but with more chances of success. The rear leg high counters are low both in use and success rate, with the lowest go to rear leg high interception and close range real leg high kicks.5. Among the pushing kick techniques, the direct push kick are mostly used, but with low rates of success. The pushing kick combinations and high pushing kick combinations are less used, but the striking rates are high. Among the axe kick techniques, the offensive axe kicks are mostly used, but with low efficiency. The interceptive axe kick and close range axe kick enjoys higher rate of success though not so often used.6. According to scoring proportions, the axe kicks, high pushing kick combinations and foreleg high kicks are doing better than rear leg high kicks, back spinning kicks and hook kicks.According to number of usage and scoring rates, the most employed and most scoring technique is the axe kick while high pushing kick combinations enjoys successful rates. Concerning the number of usage and rate of success, foreleg high kick and rear leg high kick are more effective than back spinning kick and hook kick.7. The one point techniques bear high rate of scoring and at the same time experiencing declining dominating positions. The two point techniques are used more frequently but still need improvement. The three point and four point techniques enjoys high proportion of scoring rates and are becoming dominant in competitions.8. Warning penalty mainly includes negative behavior, access behavior, aggressive behavior, inappropriate behavior. The negative behavior mainly comes out of bounds and fell;contact mainly grab, hold, push-oriented; attacks mainly to deliberately pedaling opponents. The misconduct mainly refers to disobeying the referee password.