The Effect of Skill level and Condition's Predictability on Taekwondo Player's Timing

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of skill level and predictability of conditionson taekwondo players’ timing. Twenty-three elite taekwondo players attending the camp of the national team and twenty-three none elite taekwondo players from the gyms of Tehran were chosen respectively at convenience and random sampling method. Practitioners were examined in psychology laboratory of Tarbiat Modarres University. They were asked to perform a computerized version of timing task in predictable and non-predictable conditions. Data were analyzed by MANOVA test. Results indicated significant differences between elite and non elite taekwondo players’ timing, not only in predictable and non-predictable conditions, but also in different intervals of predictable condition (significant level for predictable conditions’interval and non-predictable condition are respectively including: P=0.0001, P=0.019, P=0.005).Thus we can say that taekwondo players with better timing, have better performance in motor skills and react to stimulus needed time prediction. So timing can be accounted as perceptual- motor skills in selecting elite taekwondo players.