Paweł Adam Piepiora

Wroclaw University of Health and Sport Sciences

The main aim of this study was to determine the relationships between postural stability and the place in the ranking of badminton players. The study examined 10 elite players from Polish national badminton team. The scope of the study included basic somatic characteristics, such as body height, body weight, BMI, and training experience. A Microgat...

A noticeably increased interest in mountain climbing, both as the form of extreme sport and a form of tourism, has been observed in Poland recently. The assumption of this study is that practicing different varieties of mountaineering influences the personality of Polish climbers in a different manner. The aim of the research was to compare the per...

The aim of this study is to determine the influence of training and selection on postural stability and its relationship with the sports level of judo practitioners aged 11–14 years. The study group consisted of 21 children judokas, aged 11–12, and 80 of their non-training peers, as well as 19 adolescent judokas, aged 13–14, and 76 of their non-tra...

Background and Study Aim: Military hand-to-hand combat is a part of physical training of soldiers that is very different from the typical preparation for competition in combat sports. But military hand-to-hand combat training uses methods, forms and means from physical culture to ensure soldiers’ all-round psycho-physical development. The combative...

Background and Study Aim: This article continues the research line on the geography of Olympic combat sports. It is based on the perspective of their spatial differentiation and development. The aim of the paper was to reflect on the phenomenon of geography of Olympic combat sports, which have their roots in ancient times – boxing, fencing, modern...

Background and Study Aim: For years, in the Tatra Mountains, avalanches have been claiming human lives and property: in 1938 the snow avalanche from Marchwiczna Pass in the Rybiego Potoku Valley killed 1 person and affected another one and the avalanche’s blast broke the windows and moved a stove in a mountain shelter; in 1956 the snow avalanche un...

Background and Study Aim: In traditional karate, the kumite competition is dominated by hand techniques. Due to the specific nature of this competition, most probably a hypothesis is true that kumite athletes will have an athletic body build with a predominance of upper limbs. The aim of this study was to verify this hypothesis and the knowledge on...

Background and Study Aim: The gradual introduction of combat sports into the modern Olympic disciplines was dictated by their popularity, global prestige and meeting International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines. The perspective of spatial differentiation and development of Olympic combat sports is the premise of this paper. The aim of the paper...

This article is a continuation of the research on personality in combat sports in karate. The authors’ goal was to verify the relationship between personality and age of kyokushin karate practitioners. The male national team of Ukraine in karate kyokushin (N = 7) participated in the personality study with the use of the Big Five model. The NEO-FFI...

TŁO I CEL: Niniejsze badanie mieści się w nauce o kulturze fizycznej w obszarze psychologii sportu. Za tło badań przyjęto osobowość jako moderator zachowań wykształconych pod wpływem oddziaływań środowiska sportu. Celem pracy było porównanie osobowości siatkarzy i zawodników sportów walki (pięściarstwo i kickboxing). METODYKA: W tym celu dobrano lo...

Background and Study Aim: We assumed that a better club position in the league is associated with a more desirable personality of young football players. The aim of the research was the knowledge about relationship between a club’s position in the league and the personality of Wrocław football players at the junior and pre-junior level. Material an...

In this short article, we took a look at the importance of rituals in sports. First we explained the concepts of religion, creed, superstitions, fallacies and rituals. Then we described superstitious thinking and religiosity in psychological terms and on this basis we referred to rituals in sport. We explained the meaning of rituals in sport based...

Background and Study Aim: The widely understood mental training was adopted as the background of the work as it has a sound grounding in numerous scientific papers as well as in the experience of trainers and coaches. The aim of the paper was to verify the opinions of kyokushin karatekas on mental training. Material and Methods: The Polish represen...

Niniejsza publikacja jest pokłosiem trzech konferencji naukowych poświęconych karate. Odbywały się one w cyklu 6-letnim. Pierwsza konferencja zatytułowana „Zarządzanie sportem. XXX lat karate shotokan na Dolnym Śląsku” miała miejsce w Gościńcu na Starówce w Kowarach w dniu 20 lutego 2009 r. Towarzyszyła Otwartym Mistrzostwom Polski Karate Shotokan...

More and more research reports assert that sport experience has an influence on shaping the personality of athletes. This paper aims at validating the connection between personality and sport experience. The research subject of were young Polish male athletes (N = 1,260) aged 20–29, out of 42 sports disciplines, with sport experience ranging from 3...

Background and Study Aim: Research on personality in sport often concerns the senior stage, that is why we are interested in the junior stage. The aim of this research is the personality traits profiles of athletes training combat sport and team sport at the level of the Polish representation of juniors and seniors. Material and Methods: The subjec...

Background and aim. Kickboxing is a full-contact combat sport that has evolved from the knockdown formula characteristics of Kyokushin karate. The aim of the article was to attempt to determine the personality of people training in Kyokushin karate and kickboxing. Material and method. The study involved people practicing Kyokushin karate (n1 = 30)...

Research on personality in sport is very popular as it allows prediction of the behavior of players in the starting situation. Hence, verifications of players due to their sports level may turn out to be crucial. Due to the dynamic development of American football in Poland, we undertook research to verify the relationship between the sports level...

The aim of the Karate Compendium was to characterize the training and forms of karate, as well as the physical and mental skills of karatekas. It is the first book of this type, based on over thirty years of knowledge, experience, and skills of the author in various karate styles, as well as his expertise in physical culture sciences. The content o...

The aim of the study is to describe personality profiles and determinants of success in sports in relation to the Big Five Personality Model. In order to achieve this aim, personality profiles of players from various sports disciplines was set against the personality profile of champions—players who are considerably successful in sports competition...

Background Research on personality in sport is popular because it allows you to forecast the greediness of actions in sports competition situations. The purpose of this paper is to determine which personality traits characterize individual sports champions. Materials and Methods The subjects of the research were Polish athletes (N = 600) between 2...

The objective of the research is to study the attitudes towards Karate correlated with the world of values of the apprentices. A diagnostic survey is the main method of the study: a direct extended questionnaire from Cynarski (2006), as an auxiliary questionnaire A and a survey questionnaire "Perception of martial arts by young practitioners. Motiv...

The purpose of this article is to define the perspective from which a coach should analyze and evaluate personality traits that influence sports performance in team sports. The subjects of the research are Polish players ( N = 300) in senior age (20–29 years) from 10 team sports (each n = 30). A sample of champions ( n = 13) was selected from the s...

Background and Study Aim: Judo is a speed-strength discipline and requires a high level of motor preparation from competitors. Judorelated effort is general and activates more than 30% of the athlete’s body mass, both in the upper and lower body, but the flexor muscles of the arm and elbow are the most involved. The aim of the study was knowledge a...

(1) Study aim: This is a comparative study for judo and jujutsu practitioners. It has an intrinsic value. The aim of this study was to showcase a comparison of practitioners of judo and a similar martial art jujutsu with regard to manual abilities. The study applied the measurement of simple reaction time in response to a visual stimulus and handgr...

Background and Study Aim: Material and Methods: Results: Conclusions: Karate competitions take place in the kata and kumite competitions. Karate athletes, depending on their preferences in the training process, focus on specializing in kata or kumite. Karate shapes the personality of practitioners. Therefore, the purpose of this work was to answer...

Background and aim. The important role of sports psychology is often emphasized. But not everyone is aware that it applies to the entire area of physical culture. The aim of this article is to present the role of sports psychology and the positioning of this discipline in physical culture sciences. Material and method. The collected material consis...

The subject of the research was the description and explanation of the role, significance and course of logistics processes in organizing a mass sports event on the example of the XII Shotokan FSKA Karate World Championships, which took place in Poland in Kowary and Karpacz on September 23-26, 2010. The purposeful selection of the sample was dictat...

Background and aim. The significant role of personality in sport is often emphasized. The purpose of this article is to review the research in sport psychology that has contributed to the understanding of relationships and potential avenues for research into personality traits in sport. Material and method. The collected material consisted only of...

Background & Study Aim: Previous studies on personality in sport have shown that there is a profile that characterizes athletes. But in terms of the relationship between personality and gender, the results are not clear. The aim of the study was the knowledge about the personality of male and female practicing competitive football. Material & Metho...

Background and Study Aim: The problem, which has long been the area of interest of sport psychologists, trainers and athletes, concerns the determination of the personality factors of the master in sport. This specific task would have to be to determine the personality traits of athletes that are necessary for their success in sport. It is accepted...

Background & Study Aim: Martial arts shape the character of practitioners, while combat sports rely on the direct clash of two competing athletes. The aim of the study was the knowledge about the personality profile of people training kyokushin karate as a martial art. Material & Method: Twenty nine athletes (14 men and 15 women) between 18 and 54...

Background and Study Aim: The snow avalanches occur in very high mountains like Himayalas where the avalanche occurred on Pumori killing 19 people on 04.25.2015 or in high mountains like the Apennines where the avalanche appeared on Gran Sasso d’Italia and caused 29 deaths on 01.18.2017. They can also appear in not high mountains. The aim of this s...

Background and aim. Personality is shaped through external interactions and interests. The aim of the study was to check whether university students have a similar personality (as applicants for higher education) or a different personality (due to their field of study). Material and method. 60 full-time students aged between 20 and 29 years old wer...

Background & Study Aim: Combat sports, in relation to other sports groups, are distinguished by a utilitarian factor, which manifests itself in the use of acquired skills in self-defence. The cognitive aim of this study was to answer the question: whether the personality of combat sports fighters at the championship level distinguishes them in some...

Access to sports services is important for the physical development and functioning of blind and visually impaired people. Access to this type of activity also affects the rehabilitation of people with visual impairment and their daily functioning. Sport activity and participation in various forms of recreation is a very broad concept in physical c...

Background & Aim: In sports, three groups of sports disciplines can be distinguished depending on the way of performing movement actions: a group with a significant degree of kinematic stabilization in the structure of sports technique; a group with a significant degree of stabilization of the dynamic structure of sports technique; a group with a s...

The aim of the study was to try to determine the personality of the ultimate frisbee players. The following hypothesis was accepted for verification: the personality profile of the ultimate frisbee players is similar to the profile of players practicing the same sport. The subjects of the cognitive experiment were people training ultimate frisbee (...

Background and objective. Differences in the psyche of sportsmen and sportswomen are ambiguous. However they can be seen in contact sports. This study has been an attempt at evaluating the personality profile of women practising contact sports. Material and methods. The study involved the best Polish female karate kyokushin competitors (n=30) and f...

Background and Study Aim: Football is one of sports that causes most injuries throughout the world. The reasons vary, because competition in football very often becomes fierce. The objective of the study was answer the questions which injuries are most frequently sustained by female and male football players, circumstances in which injuries are sus...

Background and Study Aim: Combat sports are characterised by a high dynamics of activities. One of the unwanted elements of the training process are injuries. The aim of this study was the knowledge about the body type of persons practising judo in accordance with Wanke’s typology and to specify injuries that are characteristic of individual body t...

Background & Study Aim: In combat sports (martial arts), numerous competitors with short training experience are injured relatively quickly. Such injuries, improperly treated or not treated, turn into a persistent, chronic conditions. The goal of this study was the knowledge about on prevention and treatment methods for martial arts practitioners....

This research presents the organisational model of digitisation of sport institutions as the element of development shifting towards digital models of sport business. Empirical research concerns: the level of saturation of information and communication technology (ICT) in sport institutions and media coverage of organizational space in sport as the...

Football competition due to the largest number of violations of public order and order. They force the need to send significant police units to ensure their proper conduct. These violations occur both during the match and during the transport of supporters. This article presents safety issues at football matches. The hazards that may occur in a sta...

Aim. The aim of the study was to check if there are differences in the personality of volleyball players in Poland at different levels of sports advancement. Method and subject. The study was conducted with the NEO-FFI Personality Inventory on three groups of Polish volleyball players: first league (n = 30), second league (n = 30), third league (n...

This article addresses the subject of personality in the shooting discipline, which can be included in the broader field – sport psychology. The attempt to characterize the personality of Olympic archery athletes depending on the life records obtained was to show the differences between good and best athletes, to then determine the direction of per...

Sports disciplines can be divided due to the type of contact allowed with the opponent. We distinguish disciplines with direct and indirect contact as well as non-contact disciplines. The intention of this study was to check if the behavior of professional athletes is determined by the type of contact of sports disciplines. 180 competitive athletes...

Aim: The aim of the research was to examine and demonstrate whether there are links between physical activity and styles of coping with stress, and to estimate with what force these possible relationships are manifested. Material and methods: 60 people aged 18-30 were randomly selected for the study. The first group consists of physically active pe...

Aim. The aim of the study was to check the relationship between individual personality traits and the subjective assessment of the weight of tennis players. Material and methods. Personality assessment was performed using the NEO-FFI questionnaire, subjective assessment of body weight was made using a questionnaire. 15 tennis players aged 19.13 yea...

Background & Aim: The aim of this study was to determine whether the level of focusaffects a person’s ability to overcome the fear of fallingduringleading in competition climbing. Matherial and Method: The subjects were members of the Polish competition climbing national team.The sample consisted of 30 climbers aged between 16 and 52years. The stud...

Piepiora P, Piepiora Z. 40 lat karate shotokan w Kotlinie Jeleniogórskiej na Dolnym Śląsku (40 years of shotokan karate in the Jelenia Valley in the Lower Silesia). Kowary: Klub Sportowy Funakoshi Shotokan Karate; 2019.

This paper concerns issues in the field of sport psychology. The purpose of the study was to determine the personality profile of athletes practising endurance disciplines-an individual one and a team one. The five-factor NEO-FFI personality inventory was used. The study involved senior-age men (N=60) engaged in the competitive practice of long-dis...

Background & Study Aim: Muscle strength, namely the capacity for overcoming the external resistance or counteracting it at the expense of muscular effort, plays an unquestionably essential role in judo competitor’s training. The objective of this study has been knowledge about the values of torques, torque gradient and muscle strength deficit relea...

Aim: The aim of this study was to check if there are differences in temperament among youth players practicing individual sport and team sport. Material and methods: Boys aged 16-18 training in swimming were selected for the study (individual sport - first sample - N = 31) and volleyball (team sport - second sample - N = 30). The study was used the...

Aim: The aim of the study was to get to know the forms of physical activity of women over 55 and a subjective assessment of their quality of life. Material and methods: The study included one hundred and twenty women chosen randomly aged 55-75 years. The diagnostic survey method was used to conduct the study. The research tool was a questionnaire s...

Background and Study Aim: As far as common adaptive effects are concerned, long-term karate training based on kumite technique (socially acceptable form of hand-to-hand-fighting) results in increased resistance to opponent’s strikes and ability to tolerate pain and certain type of body injuries. Therefore, it could be assumed that karate masters po...

Background & Study Aim: Controlling the body mass in long-term career of combat sports athletes is one of the most important health strategies. The aim of the study was the relationship between body weight and body fat level and correlation of body mass and composition with the subjective assessment of body weight and eating habits of the wrestlers...

Background & Study Aim: Many research reports confirm that regular sports training stimulates the development of physical fitness of children and adolescents. The aim of the study was knowledge about physical fitness, developmental age and somatic development of fifteen-year-old students whom some of them systematically trained wrestling and the ph...

Background & Study Aim: Many years of professional practice of the authors of this study indicates that it is “Swiss ball” that is the best tool for learning ukemi and body balance. The Swiss ball was produced in the 1960s in Italy. There are many studies in which “Swiss ball” was used as a tool to activate specific muscle groups, especially the ab...

This study attempted to create the psychological profiles of the personality of athletes practising individual and team disciplines, according to the type of pressure exerted on the opponent in a competitive situation. The selected criterion for division into the types of pressure exerted on the opponent was physical contact with the opponent durin...

Aim of research. The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between personality traits and body mass and body fat on the example of volleyball players. Material and methods. Personality assessment using the NEO-FFI questionnaire and mass measurement and body composition analysis were performed using the TANITA BC-418 analyzer. The stu...

Background and aim: Karate is a combat sport, which fully involves all motor skills. The aim of this paper is to present the specifics of motor preparation of the karate competitor for the kumite sports fight. Material and Methods: The study was based on the authors many years of experience as a trainers master class and an analysis of literature i...

Purpose: The purpose of this article was to present Kumite training in WKF karate on the basis of analysis of sport competition preparations. Material and Method: An annual training visit was conducted in four sections of the WKF (Sports Club Funakoshi Shotokan Karate) in the Jelenia Góra district of Lower Silesia. The dialectics was based on colle...

Background and aim: This article concerns a topic in the field of sport psychology. Its purpose was to create a young athlete personality model and to identify differences regarding this model among individual and team sport athletes. Material and methods: The young athlete model was developed using the five-factor personality inventory (NEO-FFI)....

Introduction. A positive relationship is recognised in literature between strength and body weight. On that basis a division into weight categories has been introduced in many combat sports. Nutritional behaviours are influenced by a number of factors that indirectly affect body weight. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship betw...

Background & Study Aim: Although the mission of sport is associated with health effects, a diversity of disciplines and competition itself, systematic long-term training, cyclical participation in sports competition are the reasons for adaptive differences. Apart from effects observed in three domains of health (somatic, mental, social health), the...

Background & Study Aim: There is a number of research proving decrease of stiffness after different types of intensive aerobic exercise, such as marathon or triathlon. On the contrary, other authors confirmed that the stiffness increase, as a result of eccentric contractions related to the delayed onset of muscle soreness. To the best of our knowle...

Background & Study Aim: A diet has a direct impact on a person’s body weight and is, therefore, very significant in combat sports, due to the existing division into weight categories. The purpose of this study was the relationship between specific personality traits and nutritional habits using the example of the Polish national youth female wrestl...

Background and aim. Youth sports practitioner is characterized by a specific image for the sport. The aim of the study was to examine the level of aggressiveness of the young athletes of the image formed by a variety of sports. Material and methods. The study was chosen deliberately 61 boys aged 16-18 years, trainees swimming (N=31) and volleyball...

Background & Study Aim: As far as judo and other combat sports are concerned, the specificity of maintaining a stable posture is related to the distortions generated by a competitor and their offensive activity as well as defensive or motor preparatory actions. Body balance disturbation tolerance skills (BBDTS) result in situations during which an...

Background and aim: Mental visualisation training makes use of human imagination in such a way as to program a person’s mind to perform a movement task in the best possible manner. The aim of this article is to evaluate the effects of mental visualisation training in sport with regard to karate shotokan fighters. Material and methods: 20 karate sho...

The aim of the study is to verify the theoretical basis of advanced ICT and Augmented Reality in the organizational development and sports clubs to improve their sports performance. The methodology of the article is based on setting the computer designed system. The study includes the preparation and implementation of a system to manage a sports cl...

Introduction. The aim of the study is to verify competitive sports in the MMA heavyweight fights. Material and methods. The material test was a digital recording of 6 fights in MMA Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) formula, in the heavy weight category in the period 2013-2014. As the research method authors used technology of augmented reality (...

Karate is now one of the most popular martial arts in the world. Karate-jutsu, okinawska martial arts evolved in karate-do - a martial art where the physical aspect and the spiritual merged in unity. Karate-do is so due to the inclusion of karate-jutsu to the group of Japanese martial arts Budo. Fashion on the Far Eastern martial arts fulfill the r...

The purpose of this paper is to present kyokushin karate as a form of leisure. For his needs have been pairing the various functions and aspects. They are presented in terms of four functions in a specially prepared questionnaire. The study involved 120 people aged from 13 to 19 years. This article presents karate as a form of leisure. It shows wha...

Background and Study Aim: The philosophy of karate can have a huge impact on the daily life of an individual. In the shotokan karate are two codes: the dojo-kun and the niju-kun. They form the pillars of the philosophy of this martial art. Material and methods: The aim of the study is to analyze the principles of the dojo-kun and niju-kun. The anal...

In traditional karate, there are three elements of training – kihon, kata, kumite. Under these names are hidden sets of exercises relevant to the type of workout. As kihon (school of fundamental techniques) is defined as fundamental techniques of karate. Kata (formal training) are systems consisting of fragments without fighting enemies according t...

Everyone has a right to health protection. This is to ensure the smooth functioning of health care system. In Poland a founding organ that establishes, transforms and terminates an Independent Public Health Care Institution (IPHCI) is a local government unit: commune, district and province authorities. On the other hand, the functioning of health c...

A significant subject in the functioning of a hospital is the issue of safety of patients, the personnel that directly or indirectly takes care of them and people visiting them. The safety is influenced by, among other things, such factors as: a hospital's infrastructure, equipment, financial situation and human resources. An important thing is eng...

Background and aim: Organisation of mass sports events is one of the functions of contemporary physical culture and, at the same time, a dynamically developing service, provided by both public and private institutions. Organising such an event requires a professional project-based approach, i.e. the conceptual preparation of activities related to i...

Background and Study Aim: In traditional standards of youth education an exceptional role is assigned to the sports activity. However, the contemporary professional sports career is tempting due to the possibility of bringing fame, wealth and even power. This raises justified concerns whether such prospect prevails among coaches and youth athletes....

Background: and study aim: Each sports activity, particularly combat sports, involves various injuries and overloads. Injuries are a result of impact of sudden large for ceson tissues, while overloads are caused by small but repetitive forces, which lead to some dysfunction, pain. The aim of this study was to compare injuries and overloads in two c...

The mental training (Galloway, 2011) is one of the measures of the psychological preparation in sport. Especially such as the judo discipline requires the mental training, due to the fact that the judo is a combat sport, the direct, physical confrontation of two opponents. Hence the mental preparation should be an essential element of preparing for...