Offensive and defensive skill performance and its relationship to physical and motor abilities in foil for students

Abstract

The importance of the research lies in knowing the offensive and defensive skill performance, mental toughness and the most important physical and motor abilities in foil for students, and knowing the relationship between them, and also predicting the offensive and defensive skill performance in terms of mental toughness and the most important physical and motor abilities in foil for students. The research aims to:-

1-Know the offensive and defensive skill performance, mental toughness and the most important physical and motor abilities in foil for students.

The researcher used the descriptive approach with the survey method to measure offensive and defensive skill performance, mental toughness, and the most important physical and motor abilities, and with the method of correlation relationships to know the relationship between them and predictive studies to predict offensive and defensive skill performance in terms of mental toughness and the most important physical and motor abilities in the foil weapon for students. The research community was determined by third-stage students in the faculties of physical education and sports sciences in the governorates of the Middle Euphrates for the academic year (2023-2024), and then the researcher built a mental toughness scale and then the tests for skill performance and physical and motor abilities were determined and those tests were applied. The researcher concluded:

 1- Students enjoy offensive and defensive skill performance, mental toughness, and the most important physical and motor abilities in the foil weapon.

2-There is a strong direct correlation between offensive and defensive skill performance, mental toughness, and the most important physical and motor abilities in the foil weapon for students.