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Methodology for improving the teaching-learning process of technical-tactical elements in combat sports

Abstract:

Enhancing Sports Initiation phase commits very closely to the knowledge of novel and contemporary issues originated from the pedagogical context, and the ways to manage them. As a result, methodologies applied to any sport discipline demand continuous updating in the theoretical, methodological, and practical aspect. Based on that, the present investigation had the objective to validate a methodology to perfect the learning process of tactical and technical elements in combat sports. Three disciplines (Karate, Judo and Taekwondo) were taken into account, with a sample of 265 coaches selected intentionally from a population of 852, reflecting the proportion of coaches in each discipline: Judo 96; Karate: 83; Taekwondo: 77. An instrument composed of 12 indicators was developed for the validation of the proposal. Five criteria were defined: Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair and Poor, each of them having been assigned a code; to obtain objective results, we used the Tórgerson Mathematical Model, which allowed to define cut-off points for the methodology evaluation criteria; for the validation of the proposal, a pedagogical pre-experiment was applied. Data were compared employing Wilcoxon test for related samples. Results showed high significance in all cases (p = .002). Therefore, H0 is rejected whereas Hi is accepted, which demonstrates the validity of the methodology.