Study on Karate Training on Children’s Visuomotor---Space and Coordination

Visuomotor not only is very important in children’s motion development, but also has a great influence on life learning, intelligence and physical coordinate ability. It is a significant ability which coordinates perceptive and motion information. It is also a complete process that brain receives, manages and recognizes the visual stimulations (Case-Smith, 2010). Children with slow visuomotor ability will have intelligence below average (Frostig, 1997). Visuomotor learning involves space perception, depth perception, discovery and model identification. Specific observation of goal and agile response are included and attention is also related.（Ahissar & Hochsein, 2004; Paffen, Verstraten & Vidnynszky, 2008; Roelfsema & Van-Ooyen, 2010; Tsushima & Watanabe, 2009） Combat sports and perception training emphasize on specific observation of goal and agile response more. Clinically, there are various studies on improvement of children’s visuomotor. However, few studies particularly deal with dimension space and special training of visuomotor coordination in karate. In order to see if this kind of training in karate might improve children’s visuomotor — visuomotor mirror space in dimension space and response time of eye to hand and eye to foot for coordination, this study designs 6-week karate training courses about dimension space and coordination between vision and movement which are based on references. Children’s visuomotor performance — dimension space (visuomotor mirror space) and coordination (response time of eye to hand and eye to foot) before and after courses are evaluated and taken as reference for future use.

Project ID:PB10408-6660
External Project ID:MOST104-2410-H182-027