코로나 19로 인한 태권도 품새 대회 진행 시 마스크 착용이 경기력에 미치는 영향

Abstract

Covid 19 is pandemic declared in the WHO, which had influenced on sports industry through border closures and public place closure. Thus, nations prohibited people to move or travel between two countries. Also, 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games was delayed and some sports leagues were canceled. Especially, Tokyo Olympic, one of the four international sports competitions is the first Olympic which was postponed because of infectious disease except for from the war. Like this, Korea Taekwondo Association decided to postpone or cancel national sports competitions provisionally. However, they are trying to build strict anti-Covid 19 system for sports competitions which must be held inevitably for educational transition. Still, the most important factor in holding such events is whether they wear a mask or not. This virus indeed happen through droplet infection so it needs at least 2 meters, but in terms of Taekwondo, could reduce the performance through the obligation of wearing a mask due to the nature of this sports. The purpose of this thesis is to have athletes to reconsider the necessity of putting on masks to prevent the infection and to search for some solutions to enhance athletic performance analyzing how it affects athletes. This study conducted document research about preceding research data of official Poomsae competition to achieve the purpose. Also, this study used opinions of Poomsae players who engaged in national contests wearing a mask to prevent infection of Covid 19 and preceding research data related to the influence of wearing a mask on sports performance. Besides, this thesis adopted an inductive method to figure out common logic about the contents, suggested solutions based on the results, and the results are as follows. First, the biggest difference between wearing mask or not in Taekwondo Poomsae competition in case of Covid 19 is an inconvenience. Athletes' psychological anxiety related to the fact that they are engaged in the competition wearing a mask in the situation which they had never been experienced and inconvenience due to unexpected movement caused by mask lead to degradation of performance in Taekwondo Poomsae competition. Therefore, to reduce inconvenience and anxiety, athletes need to practice putting their masks on in a daily basis not to make any trouble. Second, breath is also an important factor in progressing the Taekwondo Poomsae competition. Poomsae emphasizes flow. However, while showing off Poomsae wearing masks, breath becomes unstable causing imbalance. Finally, it is difficult to perform accurate action of the Poomsae. Since each Poomsae requires a different way of breathing, proper breathing training after wearing masks to keep on the flow. Third, when practicing Poomsae after wearing masks, hand movement and kick by unit should be conducted separately. Taekwondo Poomsae involves from Taguk Poomsae, which is relatively easy to Free Poomsae and a blackbelt holder Poomsae that even professional athletes find difficult. Among them,some who put great emphasis on breath, flow, kick, and diverse hand movements but if these types of factors are done at the same time, there will be some troubles in performing. Thus, it will be easy to perform Poomsae if separated hand movements, kick by the unit are practiced to find out breath control and whether the mask is straighten up. Fourth, each competition needs enough break to minimize the inconvenience caused by wearing a mask when performing Poomsae in competition. After the first Poomsae match, if players engage in the second Poomsae match having some break, instability of breathing leads to psychological anxiety. Therefore, players will not show off well-prepared performance. As a result, enough break should be ensured to recover players' stamina, stabilize psychology, and rearrange masks. Lastly, well-organized distancing policy should be adopted when performing Taekwondo Poomsae. Distance between judges and players should be estimated to be appropriate with quarantine guidelines. Also, the game format should be converted from the tournament: two players perform to cut-off: one player performs Poomsae so that players anxiety will be reduced while matching. Additional research about the influence on performance that wearing masks have seems to be required through the pandemic case on the later study. A study about how to enhance players' performance searching requirements except for the results mentioned before through researching effects of wearing masks on players' psychological state and breath.