Activity Profile During Action Time Between Winners And Losers Of Young Male Silat Tempur Athletes

Abstract

Background and aim.        The purpose of current study was to describe the detailed activity that occurs during the fight time of silat bouts between winners and losers among young male athlete in national silat tempur competition.

Problem.  There is less research that specifically describes the activity involved in silat tempur that specifically describes the activity that contributes to the winning and losing in competition of this combat sport.

Methods.  Seven publicly video recording of young male silat matches from various categories has been analysed using notational analysis technique by Shapie and co. [1]. Each video was observed twice separated by 48 hours. An intra-operator reliability study revealed that the total action has a high intraobservation through intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC ≥ 0.95). The ICC for the outcome actions were total Hit Target (HT) (1.00), total Hit Elsewhere (HE) (0.995) and total Miss Opponent (MO) (0.99). 

Results.  The result showed that the total HT was the highest percentage with 50.6%. The total HE recorded 32.5% and 16.9% for total MO. The winners (51%, 79 actions) performed more actions compare to losers (41%, 55 actions). The winners also recorded (69%, 48 actions) more than the losers (31%, 22 actions) on the overall outcome of HT. Hit target outcome was the main indicator to the result (contributes points) in silat match. The winners have higher frequency from the total outcome and total actions (79 actions from 136 actions).

Conclusions.        It was concluded that this is the first study that describe the details activities in national silat tempur competition (youth). The approach used here would be useful to apply to give greater understanding of the type and frequency of actions in silat matches.