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Table 4 Competitive history: differences according to current primary sports and current level of competition

From: Profiling Combat Sports Athletes: Competitive History and Outcomes According to Sports Type and Current Level of Competition

  

n

Age began training (1)

Age began competing (2)

M

SD

M

SD

Current primary sport: F(6, 290)

(1)= 5.70, p< .01;

(2)= 8.44, p< .01.

MMA

30

15.73

6.74

18.43a

5.84

MT/KB

46

17.04a

6.58

19.91a

7.46

Boxing

61

16.92a

6.64

19.79a

6.55

BJJ

58

17.91a

8.13

20.47a

7.46

Wrestling

43

11.65a

8.85

12.65a

8.85

Judo

26

13.58

6.98

15.65

6.49

TSS

34

13.38

6.19

16.74a

5.49

Current level of competition: F(2, 294)

(1)= 6.25, p <.01; (2)= 5.75, p< .01.

Amateur

115

17.23a

6.42

19.62a

6.71

Regional/state

99

15.14

8.21

17.84

8.08

Elite

84

13.75a

7.75

16.20a

7.45

  1. Note: M mean, SD standard deviation, MMA mixed martial arts, MT/KB Muay Thai/kickboxing, BJJ Brazilian jiu-jitsu and TSS traditional striking sports
  2. Superscripts indicates where Bonferonni adjusted pair-wise tests indicated group differences, with scores in bold indicating the lowest score in the pairwise difference. Effect sizes for scores in bold. (1) Wrestling MT/KB (d= 0.70, medium effect), boxing (d= 0.66, medium effect) and BJJ (d= 0.74, medium effect). Elite and amateurs (d= 0.48, medium effect). (2) Wrestling and MMA (d= 0.81, large effect), MT/KB (d= 0.89, large effect), boxing (d= 0.88, large effect), BJJ (d= 0.98, large effect) and traditional striking sports (d= 0.58, medium effect). Elite and amateur (d= 0.48, medium effect)
  3. Two-way ANOVAs (current primary x current level: F(12, 276) were non-significant for (1) = 1.03, p= .42; (2)= 1.20, p= .28