In fencing, a sport where time allowed for preparation of motor reactions is very short, top-level fencers anticipate the intentions of their opponents. Notably, an appropriate perception strategy allows athletes to properly select the distance and anticipate actions of their opponent. The way of obtaining information from the environment appears to influence the effectiveness of technical and tactical actions in fencing. The function of perceptual abilities is to obtain information from the environment and to interpret it in a subsequent action. As a matter of fact, perceptual abilities are reported to be one of the main ability types crucial in sports performance, alongside cognitive and motor abilities. Particularly in sports where the ability to adapt tactical and technical actions to altering conditions determines the final result, the sense of sight is estimated to provide athletes with c. Involved in visual perception, the primary visual system comprises a well-defined area in the human brain along with the surrounding neural pathways. Perception is the fundamental process of gathering information from the external environment. The findings from this study may help to promote the implementation of specialized perceptual training programmes in foil fencing. The results may point to different perceptual strategies employed in bouts with left- vs. In duels with a right-handed opponent, a higher number of fixations in attack and in defence, and longer observation times in defence were found for the upper torso. In defence, it was also the guard that attracted more fixations and gained a longer observation time in bouts with a left hander. Both in their offensive and defensive actions, the fencers produced more fixations to the armed hand and spent more time observing the armed hand in duels with a left-handed (vs. While the participants were fencing, their eye movements were being recorded with a remote eye-tracker (SMI ETG 2.0). They performed a total of 40 actions: 10 repetitions of offensive actions (attack) and 10 repetitions of defensive actions (defence), each type of action performed under 2 conditions (right- vs.
Twelve top-level (i.e., Olympic fencers, Junior World Team Fencing Champions, and top Polish senior foil fencers) right-handed female foil fencers (aged 16–30 years) took part in the study. This study aims to verify whether right-handed fencers assess their opponents' behaviour based on different perceptual strategies when fencing a left vs. Whether this can be attributed to perceptual strategies used by fencers in their bouts remains to be established.
Particularly in fencing, top rankings show a relatively strong overrepresentation of left handers over right handers. Left handers have long held the edge over right handers in one-on-one interactive combat sports.
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