Model characteristics of combat athletes’ competitive activities

On the basis of retrospective analysis of scientific and methodological literature the authors consider model-wide characteristics of combat athletes’ competitive activity and describe the structure of competitive activities, with focus on achieving maximum rate of individual performance in a chosen form of martial arts. A wide range of technical actions and a broad spectrum of potential conflict situations, regularly manifested in the course of martial arts, particularly in Taekwondo, determine the features of operations, actions, and mechanisms for their improvement. This paper discusses the classification of specific activities (combat athlete activity in wrestling; performance of basic tactical and technical actions; combat athlete activities in separate parts (preliminary and final stage) of the competition; the activities of combat athlete in a separate co-efforts; the activities of combat athlete in the aggregate number of competitions), limited by temporal and spatial factors. The authors present a list of specialized and generalized model characteristics of competitive activity, in which according to martial arts include the following indicators: a variety of defensive and offensive action; the amount of defensive and offensive action; the activity of protective and attacking action; the effectiveness of defensive and offensive actions. In conclusion it is noted that the model characteristics of competitive activity must disclose the following aspects in combat sports: activity, variety and volume, effectiveness of the demonstrated technical-tactical actions.