VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
Secondly, contact fighting requires equal concentration on several senses.
The local senses related to the body play a particularly important role. These
include the perception of touch, muscle tension (kinesthesia, pressure, and
tension), movement, and balance and proprioception (the weight of the other
person when throwing and ground fighting). With regard to PE with visually
impaired students, this aspect should be emphasized, as contact combat sports are
not characterized by large-scale orientation skills and the ability to see does not
function as a central sensory perception when fighting. In this sense, fighting can
be seen as an opportunity to move away from the 'deficit perspective' of not being
able to see and to experience the concentration on other sensory perceptions,
especially tactile-kinesthetic perception, as positive and enriching.
Finally, special attention must be paid to safety aspects when fighting in
school sports. In contact martial arts, the risk of injury is lower than in distance
martial arts due to the prohibition of punches and kicks (see Figure 1). Restricting
fighting to the ground reduces the risk of uncontrolled falls, which prevents
injuries.
Fighting in an Educational Context
When observing children and young people playing on the playground, in
the gym, or in other places, it becomes apparent that they sometimes romp around
wildly with each other and test their strength. Fighting is, so to speak, true to life
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