@article{Dobrzycki_2020, title={Organizational affiliation, age and training experience of people who train karate Kyokushin and the rank of the most important professional activities of the coach}, volume={3}, url={https://czasopisma.ujd.edu.pl/index.php/sport/article/view/1014}, DOI={10.16926/sit.2020.03.13}, abstractNote={<p><strong>Introduction:</strong> The aim of this study was to collect and analyse the opinions of people who train karate Kyokushin regarding the importance (hierarchy) of individual professional activities of the coaches. <strong>Material and methods:</strong> The research involved 54 practitioners from 25 karate Kyokushin sports clubs in Poland. Respondents were aged 35.0 ±12.0 years, and their training experience was 15.9 ±8.7 years. All respondents had a technical level of at least 1 dan. Survey method was used, and the questionnaire developed by Tumanian and modified by Januszewski and Sterkowicz was applied. <strong>Results:</strong> The most important professional activities of a karate Kyokushin coaches reported include three types of management: managing physical, technical and tactical preparation of athletes. Regardless of organizational and age divisions, opinions regarding the importance of particular professional activities of coaches were convergent (rsp = 0.79 −0.92, p <0.001). <strong>Conclusions:</strong> Structure professional activities deemed most important, allows classified karate Kyokushin as more of a sport than a martial art of self-defense.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Sport and Tourism Central European Journal}, author={Dobrzycki, Adrian}, year={2020}, month={May}, pages={59–77} }