BUILDING AN GENERAL MOTOR ABILITY ASSESSMENT TESTING EQUIPMENT FOR TAEKWONDO PLAYERS
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Movement skill is essential for athletes. One of physical fitness factors which can improve movement skills in taekwondo players is eye-foot coordination. At present, there is no testing equipment that can directly measure eye-foot coordination. As a result, an eye-foot coordination testing equipment that can help classify kicking ability in taekwondo players is essential for players and coaches. The objective of the research is to build an eye-foot coordination testing equipment for taekwondo players. There were three steps in building the testing equipment. The first step was to do a literature review relating to eye-foot
coordination. From the literature review, eye-foot coordination was a combination of reaction time, accuracy, and opportunity. The second step was to build the testing equipment. The eye-foot coordination testing equipment was composed of stepping platform and a sandbag. The combination of the platform and the sandbag would interpret eye-foot coordination of taekwondo players. The testing equipment measured movement time and the number of step counts on which players correctly stepped. The final stage was to conduct validity and reliability. The IOC value to test for validity was 0.67, while the reliability tested by
20 players was 0.75. From the validity and reliability tests, the developed eye-foot coordination was able to use to measure eye-foot coordination of taekwondo players.
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