That said, the undeniable rise of eSports popularity seems like an unstoppable tide, with major tournaments filling huge stadiums and attracting prize pools reaching into the tens of millions. Largely it depends on whether you define sports as mental or physical. Just like with the definition of chess as a ‘sport’, the idea of playing computer games rivaling events like the marathon is seen as contentious, to say the least. One step ahead, the Asian Games have already announced that a range of eSports will be officially included in the 2022 games. The IOC recently declared eSports as a possible Olympic sport by 2020. In this first part of a two-part blog, we’ll see what the eSports hype is about and if the status of ‘cyber athletes’ being the sports stars of tomorrow is justified. eSports stars now earn salaries on par with top athletes around the globe, with predictions for earnings set to escalate. We suggest reinforcing these actions in the trainings.Once the domain of pure leisure, ‘gaming’ is fast becoming the sport of the future. Among the technical and tactical moves that score, we highlight the direct attack moves (a kick to the breastplate with the back leg extended bandal chagui), in counterattack and for technical correction.

The techniques that are used the most to score are bandal chagui, miro chagui and dolio chagui. In the actions targeted towards the face, it is more common to score as a fault, doing the opposite of the actions towards the breastplate. This situational analysis provides the technical and tactical aspects of the scorable actions in taekwondo, discovering which standard drivers permit a competitor to score.

The complimentary relationship of technical analysis is a rare experience due to the strength that it entails, with just as much human resources as material resources. The existing studies in taekwondo only use technical analysis. We analyzed 209 moves that could be scored (male category, <68 kg, international scene) employing different complementary analytical techniques: analyzing traditional statistics, detection of T-Patterns, consecutive delays and polar coordinates. The objective of the study is to discover and analyze the patterns of the technical and tactical moves that score in combat in taekwondo.

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