Abstract: By using the scale of athletes' mental skills and coping styles, the paper investigates the high level free combaters preparing for the 12th National Games from Sichuan to explore correlation between their psychological skills and coping styles so as to provide theoretical bases for Sichuan combaters. The study shows: 1. In view of the high level free combaters n Sichuan, there are differences in genders, ages, sports life and training years in the six dimensions of psychological skills; 2.There is no significant difference in genders and sports level of four the dimensions of their coping styles while there are significant differences in the length of training in coping style of avoidant coping and centralized treatment; 3. There is a significant correlation between their sports psychological skills and coping styles. Active sport psychological skill contributes to the state of self-confidence, thus leading to positive coping style.

Key words: high level free combaters, sport psychological skill, coping style