Analysis of the Contribution of Instructional Games in Judo to the Improvement of Claw Strength

Abstract

Introduction; The aim of this research is to determine the effect of instructional games in judo on claw strength, which is one of the basic features of judo, by their goal-directed application. Method; with this purpose, in the January of 2009, a pretest was carried out on 37 male sportsmen who were taking judo training in Edirne (experiment group) and Tekirdağ (control group). At the end of the training programme which was applied on these sportsmen for 12 months; the improvement of the sportsmen was identified and in January 2010, their final tests were performed. The comparison of Experiment and Control male groups" pretests, the comparison of Experiment and Control male groups" final tests, and one way variance analysis (One way ANOVA) were used among the data we have acquired through our research. A comparison was carried out between Experiment and Control groups and a difference of p