A relationship oh the fourth Rapid Deployment Brigade soldiers in the Army of The Czech Republic
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| Year of publication | 2014 |
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| Description | To be ready for defending the country is one of the main goals of every national army. The aim of the paper is to find out what is the relationship of the fourth Rapid Deployment Brigade soldiers in the Army of the Czech Republic and combat sports or martial arts. In the theory, even professional self-defence comes from applied martial arts and combat sports [Reguli 2005, Reguli et al. 2007]. 234 soldiers took part in the research by short questionnaire. All tested persons were male in the age of 18 - 40, most of tested persons were in the age of 25 - 35. Their experience in The Army of the Czech Republic is mostly 1-9 years (74 tested persons 1-4 years, 97 tested persons 4-9 years). 67% of the fourth Rapid Deployment Brigade soldiers in the Army of the Czech Republic are doing combat sport, martial art or self-defence system in their civil sphere as well (mostly box, MMA, Thai box and others). Very often they mentioned lag of time for doing any combative activity in their free time. Most of the soldiers are travelling to work every day, or they spend working week in other town then their families are. Then at the weekend they want to spend as much time as possible with their children, that is why they gave up combative activities in their free time. 42% of soldiers are doing martial art or combat sport 3-4 times a week. Most of the tested persons agree that combat sport should be part of soldiers’ identity and they are familiar with the idea to add one more combative activity to their soldiers training. Those, who do some combat activity in their free time confirm, that the knowledge of combat activity helped them to do well the professional soldier training. We can conclude, that soldiers of The Army of the Czech Republic is familiar with martial arts and combat sports and they would welcome more combative activities in their working time. |