Technical Skills Assessment Analysis: Gyaku-Zuki Shots in Karate

Abstract

The assessment of sport-specific technical skills is very important and studies on assessment frameworks in sports science are still limited. The Gyaku-zuki is one of the most frequently performed effective punches in Karate, and a set of assessments of its technical skills currently does not exist. Therefore, the establishment of a scoring framework is necessary to provide a standard for measuring athletes’ technical skills. This study aims to develop a framework for assessing Gyaku-zuki technique skills that have a high level of validity. This development research was carried out by carrying out three stages of implementation; analysis of existing journals and documents to determine Gyaku-zuki’s technical skills assessment, expert judges’ assessment of the development of Gyaku-zuki’s technical skills assessment using the Delphi method, and analysis of the results of expert judges’ assessment by applying Aiken’s V to test content validity. This study involved nine expert judges from both academics and practitioners and data analysis showed the relevance of this technical skills assessment material had a coefficient of V 0.96; the systematics of the material relevance assessment procedure has a coefficient value of V 0.93; Gyaku-zuki target direction has a coefficient value of V 0.93; the Gyaku-zuki test score has a coefficient value of V 0.81; distance has a coefficient value of V 0.89; clarity of implementation has a coefficient value of V 0.89. The study concluded that the construction of the Gyaku-zuki technical skill assessment has high content validity with a value of V > 0.8, so that the established framework can be used as a reference in conducting the Gyaku-zuki technical skills assessment.