Relationship Between Body Shape, Physical Quality And Specific Performance Of Young Fencers In Nan Tong, Jiangsu Province

Background:When Khrusheva introduced fencing to China from the Soviet Union in 1955, fencing developed a lot during the past 60 years. The athletic selection plays an important role now. Body shape is the basic of earlier selection, and physical quality is the guarantee. As one of the top cities which are good at fencing in China, Nantong is facing at the problem of athletic selection.Objective:Measuring body shape, physical quality, and analysing the relationship between them and specific performance,provide a solid academic foundation to the selection of young fencers in Nantong, Jiangsu province.Methods:We have measured body shape and physical quality of 89 young fencers from August 2010 to March 2014, count their best result. Classify their data by specific performance into 3 teams, 1st group,2nd group and 3rd group. At last, we entered the data in Excel 2007 and analysed them in SPSS 18.0 by discriminant analysis, factor analysis of variance, T test and descriptive statistics.Results:We have found the discriminant function:Y1=-169.582-1.876*weight(kg)+18.669*chest wide(cm)Y2=-178.816-1.867*weight(kg)+19.04* chenst wide(cm)Y3=-167.399-1.608*weight(kg)+17.944*chest wide(cm).And then we also found the results of BMI, span/height、shoulder breadth, leg length, ankle girth, 1min Double jump, standing long jump, 100 m run from male; and BMI, shoulder breadth, ankle girth, 1min double jump, 100 m,800m run from female get in plateau during the last period.Conclusion:1. Weight and chest wide can support specific performance forecasts.2. Data of 3nd group who have got best result in the match is better than all the fencers, and some data can be the standard of selection of atheletes.