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

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Table 6 Typical frequency of training (combat sports and other sessions) with a competition coming up: differences according to current primary sports and current level of competition

		n	Combat sports sessions (1)		Other sessions (2)
		n	M	SD	M	SD
Current primary sport: F(6, 290) (1)= 6.21, p< .01; (2)= 4.31, p <.01.	MMA	30	6.37^a	2.03	3.23	2.24
	MT/KB	46	6.02^b	2.40	3.28	1.97
	Boxing	61	5.55	2.30	3.75	1.94
	BJJ	58	5.21^c	1.46	2.72^a	1.54
	Wrestling	43	5.98^d	2.87	4.42^a	2.50
	Judo	26	4.15^abd	1.62	2.73	1.73
	TSS	34	3.91^abcd	1.22	2.56^a	2.72
Current level of competition: F (2, 294) (1)= 1.85, p= .16; (2)= 0.95, p= .39.	Amateur	115	5.30	1.84	3.33	2.13
	Regional/State	99	5.17	2.11	3.08	1.83
	Elite	84	5.81	3.10	3.51	2.51

Note: M mean, SD standard deviation, MMA mixed martial arts, MT/KB Muay Thai/kickboxing, BJJ Brazilian jiu-jitsu and TSS traditional striking sports
Superscripts indicates where Bonferonni adjusted pair-wise tests indicated group differences, with scores in bold indicating the highest scores in pairwise differences. (1) MMA and judo (d= 1.24, large effect) and TSS (d= 1.47, large effect). MT/KB and judo (d= 0.98, large effect) and TSS (d= 1.18, large effect). BJJ and TSS (d= 1.00, large effect). Wrestling and judo (d= 0.85, large effect) and TSS (d= 0.99, large effect). (2) Wrestling and MMA (d= 0.51, medium effect), MT/KB (d= 0.51, medium effect), boxing (d=0.30, small effect), BJJ (d= 0.80, large effect); judo (d= 0.84, large effect) and TSS (d= 0.72, medium effect)
Two-way ANOVAs (current primary x current level: F(12, 276) were non-significant for (1)= 1.75, p= .07; (2)= 0.59, p= .85