PURPOSE of the current study was to examine the differences between the reaction time of wrestlers attacking the left leg, the right leg or both legs given a different kinetic visual stimulus. METHODS: The sample consisted of 19 wrestling athletes, male and female, who voluntarily participated in the research, seven were adolescent girls with an average age of 16 ± 1.95 years while 12 were young men with an average age of 20.27 ± 2.27 years. "Barbas 3D Wrestling Dummy" was used to produce stimuli and to apply the responses to these stimuli on it. Two in-floor force plates were used, the athletes stood on them so that the first occurrence of force at the onset of the motor response after the stimulus was recorded. An extensometer attached to the dummy's ankles and an accelerometer placed on the dummy`s back were used to observe the timing of the onset of the stimuli during the measurements procedure. RESULTS: In all comparissons the "type of stimulus" factor showed statistically significant main effect with the mean reaction times of attacking the left leg being lower than the ones of attacking the right leg or both legs, also the mean reaction times when the attack occurred on the right leg were shorter than the ones of the attack on both legs. CONCLUSIONS: The different kinetic responses as well as the differences concerning the source of stimuli and the target of the response could be the major causes for the current results. More research is needed before we can safely assume that our results are valid for other wrestling athletes too as gender, age, physique, type and intensity of stimulus as well as the kinetic response critically influence reaction time.
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