IDENTIFICATION OF THE KEY PHYSICAL QUALITIES ENSURING EFFICIENCY OF TECHNICAL ACTIONS PERFORMED BY HIGHLY QUALIFIED HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT ATHLETES
Hand-to-hand combat is a relatively young sport, which involves using a significant part of techniques and tactics of a number of martial arts. It is a complex sport, and its competition rules allow hitting an opponent with legs and arms, and using wrestling moves in upright position and ground work. Introduction of amendments into the rules of hand-to-hand combat competitions involving increase of combat time from three to five minutes has had drastic effect on performance and general pattern of combats. It resulted in reduction of technical actions efficiency, which implies insufficient physical fitness of combat athletes. The article summarizes results of surveys aimed at identification of the key physical qualities ensuring efficiency of technical actions performed by highly qualified hand-to-hand combat athletes in competition combats. The surveys identified key technical actions and key special physical qualities of highly qualified hand-to-hand combat athletes. In order to confirm and detail the most significant (key) special physical qualities relevant for the highly qualified hand-to-hand combat athletes, we have performed correlation analysis of the technical actions indicators and special physical qualities of highly qualified hand-to-hand combat athletes.