The Effect of Elastics Taping on Round Kick Performance in Youth’s Taekwondo Players.

Abstract

          The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of ankle balance taping with elastic tape on round kick performance in youth’s taekwondo players. Eighteen blackbelt youth’s taekwondo players were participated in this study, there are screened with inclusion and excluded criteria performed. Then randomized into experiment group and control group, 9 people in each group. After that participants in both group pre-test round kick performance, then move on room in each group to rest 45 minutes. Next step, control group were adhere rigid tape on skin around the area  Tibialis Anterior, that placebo tape, while experiment group were adhere rigid tape on skin around the  ankle and heel. After taping in each group, post - test was performed, when completed on both group, research assistant got to collected data sheet. Subsequently, The Mann – Whitney U Test and The Wilcoxon Signed – Rank Test were used in order to analysis the data. The alpha level was set at 0.05.
          This study found that Elastic tape had statistically significant influence on round kick performance (Sig. 2-tailed = 0.04). In addition, the experimental group had shown after adhered tape on ankle were increase than before taping was to significant (Sig. 2-tailed = 0.01). While, there were no statistically significant in control group (Sig. 2-tailed = 0.35). Conclusion, this study had demonstrated that elastic taping method on ankle were improves the round kick performance in youth's taekwondo players.