Explosive Strength Development in the Pre-Competition Period in Kickboxers : Undergraduate Thesis

Kickboxing je moderan borilački sport koji obuhvaća više sportskih grana - disciplina, a to su: K-1, Semi contact (Polukontakt), (Lagani kontakt), Full contact (Puni kontakt), Low kick, Thai kickboxing, Glazbene forme i Aero kickboxing. Podjela natjecatelja je po težini, spolu i dobi. Prva pravila kickboxinga (početkom sedamdesetih) je napisao gospodin Mike Anderson, veliki prijatelj Hrvatske i naših boraca. Mike Anderson se smatra ocem kickboxinga. Kickboxing je nastao na osnovama boksa, karatea, taekwondoa, kung fua i drugih više ili manje poznatih zapadnih borilačkih sportova. Osnovni cilj svakoga borca je nadvladati protivnika boljom tehnikom, brzinom i snagom uz maksimalnu sigurnost, toleranciju, poštenje i čast svakog natjecatelja. Da bi to postigli potreban je dobro isplaniran i programiran trenažni proces kao i puno truda bez kojeg se to ne može postići. Dobrim planom i programom omogućujemo borcu da postigne visoki stupanj sportske forme, što znači unaprijeđenje svojih funkcionalnih i motoričkih sposobnosti zbog čega je mogućnost od ozljeđivanja puno manja, odgađa se reakcija umora, a i borac je sigurniji u sebe radi visokog stupnja spremnosti. Eksplozivna snaga je jedna od važnijih motoričkih sposobnosti i predstavlja jedan od presudnih faktora uspješnosti u kickboxingu gdje se manifestira kao snaga i brzina ručnih i nožnih udaraca prilikom borbe.Kickboxing is a modern martial art sport that includes several sport branches – disciplins, and those are: K-1, Semi contact, Light contact, Full contact, Low contact, Thai kickboxing, Musical formes and Aero kickboxing. Fighters are divided in weight categories, sex and age. First rules in kickboxing (start of the seventies) were written by mister Mike Anderson, great friend of Croatia and our fighters. Mike Anderson is considered the father of kickboxing. Kickboxing was founded on the bases of boxing, karate, taekwendo, kung fu and other more or less known western martial art sports. The basic objective of every fighter is to overpower your opponent with better technique, speed and strength with maximum certainty, tolerance, fairness and honor of every fighter. To be able to achieve that, fighters need well planed and programmed training process, and a lot of effort ass well. With a good plan and program, we enable the fighter to achieve high stage of sports form, and that means advancement in his/hers functional and motor skills that lower the possibility of an injury, postpone fatigue, and make the fighter more secure in his/hers abilities. Explosive power is one of the more important motor skills and it represents one of the crucial success factors in kickboxing where it manifests it self as strength and speed of hand and foot kicks during the fight