The Contribution Rate of Some Mental Abilities Accurately to the Performance of the Stabbing Movement with the Epee Weapon

Abstract

The research assumed that there is a differentiated contribution to mental abilities (concentration of attention, diversion of attention, perception of the sense of purpose) on the performance of the stabbing movement with the Epee weapon, so the research sample was chosen from the original community, represented by the fencing team for students of the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences for girls / University of Baghdad, which numbered (20) players and adopted the intentional method in selecting the sample, where we excluded the students who participated in the exploratory experiment, which numbered (4) students. Hence, the research sample became (16) students from the original community. The tests under study have been conducted on them. classification and treated statistically and then concluded the existence of a significant correlation between mental abilities and the accuracy of the performance of the stabbing movement with the Epee weapon.as well as a high contribution rate of mental abilities to the accuracy of the performance of the stabbing movement .In light of the results reached by the two researchers, the need to pay attention to mental abilities in the sports field in general and in the sport of fencing in particular, with the development of a special training curriculum to develop those abilities. The effect of mental abilities in other sports and on different samples, more studies were conducted on the percentage of the contribution of mental abilities of different variables to the level of physical performance and skills in fencing.