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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of skill level and predictability of conditionson taekwondo players’ timing. Twenty-three elite taekwondo players attending the camp of the national team and twenty-three none-elite taekwondo players from the clubs of Tehran were recruited through convenience and random sampling methods, respectively. Practitioners were examined in psychology laboratory of Tarbiat Modarres University. They were asked to perform a computerized version of timing task in predictable and non-predictable conditions. Data were analyzed using MANOVA test. Results indicated significant differences between elite and non-elite taekwondo players’ timing, not only in predictable and non-predictable conditions, but also in different intervals of predictable condition (P values for predictable conditions interval and non-predictable condition were 0.0001, 0.019, and 0.005, respectively). Thus, we can say that taekwondo players with better timing have better performance in motor skills and better react to stimuli that need time prediction. So, timing can be considered one of the perceptual-motor skills involved in selecting elite taekwondo players.
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