Psychophysilogical States of Boxers with Different Fighting Styles

On the modern stage of boxing development the biggest interest is paid to individual fighting style. For increasing the efficacy of boxers' training we determined athletes' inclinations to style of match is more and valued them on stage of training. The scientific literature analysis showed insufficiency of data about the individual fighting style in boxing. It is commonly known that the states of psychological and individual-typological characteristics are related with fighting style in boxing. The purpose of the study is to find links between psychophysiological states and different fighting styles in qualified boxers. Methods and materials. We studied of 22 elite boxers (masters and candidates to masters of Ukraine) aged 18-22. The psychophysiological states studied by 8 color variant of the Lüscher color test modified by L. Sobchic (method of paired comparisons). The parameters of capability, fatigue, anxiety, eccentricity, concentricity, vegetative coefficient, heteronomy, autonomy were studied. We also studied attention, perception and thinking as parts of psychophysiological states. For this purpose we used «the establishment of regularities» test where we defined and estimated the speed and accuracy of word establishment. Results and their discussion. The results showed about links between psychophysiological states and different fighting styles in qualified boxers. The attack fighting style in boxers corresponds with a high level of capability, low fatigue and anxiety. The low parameters of autonomy and increasing of heteronomy in structure of psychophysiological states indicate presence of compromise and the external failures prevention. Boxers with attacking fighting style are characterized by high speed of information processing. The growth of speed characteristics in boxers is due to the deterioration of cognitive functions: the efficiency of thinking and the efficiency of information processing.