School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
J Strength Cond Res. 2013 Mar;27(3):624-30. doi: 10.1519/JSC.0b013e318257803f.
Fencing is a sport practiced by both men and women, which uses 3 weapons: foil, épée, and saber. In general, there are few scientific studies available in international literature; they are limited to the performance analysis of fencing bouts, yet there is nothing about saber. There are 2 kinds of competitions in the World Cup for both men and women: the "FIE GP" and "A." The aim of this study was to carry out a saber performance analysis to gain useful indicators for the definition of a performance model. In addition, it is expected to verify if it could be influenced by the type of competition and if there are differences between men and women. Sixty bouts: 33 FIE GP and 27 "A" competitions (35 men's and 25 women's saber bouts) were analyzed. The results indicated that most actions are offensive (55% for men and 49% for women); the central area of the piste is mostly used (72% for men and 67% for women); the effective fighting time is 13.6% for men and 17.1% for women, and the ratio between the action and break times is 1:6.5 for men and 1:5.1 for women. A lunge is carried out every 23.9 seconds by men and every 20 seconds by women, and a direction change is carried out every 65.3 seconds by men and every 59.7 seconds by women. The data confirm the differences between the saber and the other 2 weapons. There is no significant difference between the data of the 2 different kinds of competitions.
击剑是一项男女运动员都参与的运动,使用 3 种武器:花剑、重剑和佩剑。总的来说,国际文献中可用的科学研究很少;它们仅限于击剑比赛的表现分析,但佩剑方面没有。世界杯男女比赛有两种:“FIE GP”和“A”。本研究的目的是对佩剑表现进行分析,以获得有用的指标来定义表现模型。此外,还期望验证它是否会受到比赛类型的影响,以及男女之间是否存在差异。共分析了 60 场比赛:33 场 FIE GP 和 27 场“A”比赛(35 场男子佩剑比赛和 25 场女子佩剑比赛)。结果表明,大多数动作都是进攻性的(男子占 55%,女子占 49%);大部分比赛在场地的中心区域进行(男子占 72%,女子占 67%);有效战斗时间男子为 13.6%,女子为 17.1%,动作与休息时间的比例男子为 1:6.5,女子为 1:5.1。男子每 23.9 秒刺出一次刺击,女子每 20 秒刺出一次刺击,男子每 65.3 秒进行一次方向变化,女子每 59.7 秒进行一次方向变化。这些数据证实了佩剑与其他两种武器之间的差异。两种不同类型比赛的数据没有显著差异。