Teaching Kumite Movements in Karate-Do for the 9-10-Year-Old Category

Abstract

The existing methodological deficiencies in the teaching-learning process of kumite movements in the 9-10- year- old elementary school category affect technical and tactical deficiencies manifested in municipal sports competitions in Santiago de Cuba; consequently, sports results are limited, which reveals the need for coherent learning, which goes from teaching the technical element as an ideal movement, to its tactical application. Therefore, this research is aimed at applying a system of kumite movements teaching actions for the 9-10 year-old elementary school category, where not only the structure of the movement is considered, but also the context where the actions are developed. It was carried out with 12 athletes out of 48, from the four teams, who took part in municipal karate-do competitions of such category. The sample was selected using the simple random procedure with a mixed and explanatory approach. The systemic-structural-functional scientific methods were used, observation, pre-experiment and the statistical processing was carried out through the arithmetic mean, the empirical distribution of frequencies, the mode and median, standard deviation correlation of Tau_b Kendall and test of the ranges with Wilcoxon signs. With the application of the system of these teaching actions, an improvement was obtained in the execution of the kumite movement technique, and in its combination with other techniques, the use of its potentialities within combat increased, in which solutions are given to specific situations.