| （1.Academic Administration，Hebei Institute of Physical Education，Shijiazhuang 050041，China；2.Department of Sports Training，Hebei Institute of Physical Education，Shijiazhuang 050041，China) Abstract: By carrying out a comparative analysis on the statistics of the athletes’ points lost and point losing condi-tions at the 2011 Taekwondo World Championships during which the new rules and electronic body protectors were used and related indexes of the 2008 Olympic Taekwondo Competition during which the old rules and traditional body protectors were used, the authors revealed the following findings: after the new rules and electronic body pro-tectors were used, athletes’ rib points lost were the highest, head points lost increased rapidly, actual head points lost were higher than trunk points lost; after the use of electronic protectors was initiated, back points lost were canceled, previous points won in “non valid scoring areas” and by “penetrative” strike disappeared. The authors also put for-ward the following training countermeasure by dissecting the point losing conditions and causes of the athletes dur-ing competitions: defense technique training should be carried out based on technical force acting directions and of-fense routes, different contesting conditions which the athlete is in, coupled with the technical and tactical charac-teristics of the athlete and his/her primary opponents.
Key words: competition and training；Taekwondo；characteristics of losing points in competitions；new rules；electronic body protectors |
