Athletes', engaged in martial arts sportsmanship influence over motor coordination and limb dichotomy

Relevance Sports kinds of martial arts are considered as the most difficult ones for manifestation of motor coordination with a combination of performing technical actions, depending on their performance with the right, left or both upper and lower limbs. Aim The aim is to study the athletes' engaged in martial arts sports skills influence over motor coordination and limb dichotomy. Methods To obtain the primary materials, a method of motor coordination and motor preferences for performing attacking actions with upper and lower limbs self-assessment on a ten-point scale was applied. The data were calculated by the Student's t-test method. Results It was revealed that athletes with a high sportsmanship level significantly outperform athletes with a low level of it in the following parameters of motor coordination: the speed of response to a dynamic situation in a bout, orientation in space, timeliness, resourcefulness of performing a technical action and an integral indicator of motor coordination. In terms of limb dichotomies parameters, such athletes are significantly superior in preference to perform technical actions with the left hand, left leg and both legs. Conclusion The athletic skills of athletes, engaged in martial arts in terms of motor coordination parameters are due to: the speed of response to a dynamic situation in a bout, orientation in space, timeliness, resourcefulness, consistency in the performance of a technical action and an integral indicator of motor coordination. According to motor preferences they are due to the ability to perform technical actions with the left hand, left foot and both feet.