Competitive psychophysiological fitness test system for blind judo Paralympics elite

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PhD, Associate Professor L.V. Vinokurov1
Honored Coach of Russia, MSMK, Russian Blind Sports team trainer R.R. Khalikov2
PhD, Associate Professor A.A. Baryaev1
Dr. Biol. T.F. Abramova3
1Saint-Petersburg Scientific-Research institute for Physical Culture, Saint-Petersburg
2Khabarovsk Regional Adaptive Sports School, Khabarovsk Territory
3Federal Science Center for Physical Culture and Sports, Moscow

Objective of the study was to test benefits the competitive psychophysiological fitness test system with analysis of the unconscious/ conscious psychophysiological fitness performance governed by the key nervous processes – in application to the national blind judo Paralympics elite.
Methods and structure of the study. The competitive psychophysiological fitness test system piloting experiment was run in the precompetitive trainings of the national blind judo Paralympics team for the European Championship (IBSA) in July 2019 (Italy), for ten days prior to the event. We sampled for the tests the 23-45 years old national blind judo Paralympics team members (n=16, including 6 women and 10 men) qualified Honored Masters of Sports (n=2). World Class Masters of Sports (n=7), Masters of Sports (n=4) and Candidate Masters of Sports (n=3) representing 70% of the team. The individual voluntary mental-emotional controls were rated by the skin tonic activity (electrical resistance) tests indicative of the mental-emotional stress tolerance. The test system applies a galvanic skin response rating Mind-Reflection biofeedback sensor. Results and Conclusion. The invariant psychophysiological fitness test rates indicative of the blind judo competitors’ central nervous system good fitness for competitions may be summarized as follows: (a) moderate-to-highly-strong nervous system that effectively controls involuntary mobilization of the individual natural resource for competitive success; (b) prevalence of the internal balancing skills indicative of the permanent and efficient controls of metabolic processes, with high innate aggression (expressed or latent in the precompetitive fitness for the fight) with its modest albeit often decisive contribution to the expected competitive success. Analyses of the central nervous system psychophysiological fitness competitive fitness in the blind judo sport are recommended to give a special priority to correlations of the competitive fitness / competitive success indices with the above psychophysiological fitness test rates.

Keywords: psychophysiological characteristics, neurodynamic characteristics, competitive reliability, elite blind Paralympic judokas, blind sports.

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