Objective of the study was to test benefits the competitive psychophysiological fitness test system with analysis of the unconscious/ conscious psychophysiological fitness performance governed by the key nervous processes - in application to the national blind judo Paralympics elite. Methods and structure of the study. The competitive psychophysiological fitness test system piloting experiment was run in the precompetitive trainings of the national blind judo Paralympics team for the European Championship (IBSA) in July 2019 (Italy), for ten days prior to the event. We sampled for the tests the 23-45 year-old national blind judo Paralympics team members (n=16, including 6 women and 10 men) qualified Honored Masters of Sports (n=2). World Class Masters of Sports (n=7), Masters of Sports (n=4) and Candidate Masters of Sports (n=3) representing 70% of the team. Individual typological specifics were rated by the by E.P. Ilyin`s practical motor skills test toolkit using Prognoz Computerized Test System [4]. The individual voluntary psycho-emotional control was rated by the skin tonic activity (electrical resistance) tests indicative of the psycho-emotional stress tolerance. The test system applies a galvanic skin response rating Mind-Reflection biofeedback sensor. The individual competitive fitness was self-rated by the athletes using a special questionnaire survey form with 30 questions, with every aspect rated on a 9-point scale. The competitive fitness may be described as the individual ability to mobilize the competitive resource under competitive pressures. We used the questionnaire survey data to produce the competitive fitness indices to rank the individual competitive stress tolerance and success potential. Results and Conclusion. The invariant psychophysiological fitness test rates indicative of the blind judo competitors` central nervous system good fitness for competitions may be summarized as follows: (a) moderate-to-highly-strong nervous system that effectively controls involuntary mobilization of the individual natural resource for competitive success; (b) prevalence of the internal balancing skills indicative of the permanent and efficient control of metabolic processes, with high innate aggression (expressed or latent in the precompetitive fitness for the fight) with its modest albeit often decisive contribution to the expected competitive success. Analysis of the central nervous system psychophysiological fitness competitive fitness in the blind judo sport is recommended to give a special priority to correlations of the competitive fitness / competitive success indices with the above psychophysiological fitness test rates.
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