Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Sports, Health, and Physical Education, ISMINA 2021, 28-29 April 2021, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia

Research Article

Traditional Games as Fundamental Physical Activity to Improve Locomotor Skills

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.28-4-2021.2312116,
        author={Fajar Awang Irawan and Sutaryono  Sutaryono and Dhias Fajar Widya Permana},
        title={Traditional Games as Fundamental Physical Activity to Improve Locomotor Skills},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Sports, Health, and Physical Education, ISMINA 2021, 28-29 April 2021, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ISMINA},
        year={2021},
        month={10},
        keywords={locomotor skills physical activity traditional games},
        doi={10.4108/eai.28-4-2021.2312116}
    }
    
  • Fajar Awang Irawan
    Sutaryono Sutaryono
    Dhias Fajar Widya Permana
    Year: 2021
    Traditional Games as Fundamental Physical Activity to Improve Locomotor Skills
    ISMINA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.28-4-2021.2312116
Fajar Awang Irawan1,*, Sutaryono Sutaryono1, Dhias Fajar Widya Permana1
  • 1: Universitas Negeri Semarang
*Contact email: fajarawang@mail.unnes.ac.id

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the traditional games in the fundamental physical activities using locomotor skills. This study using Class Action Research to see the improvement in implementing traditional games. The study using 18 children 7-9 years and took place in Madrasah at Ungaran Barat. All participants were agreed and full fill the inform consent with the guidance from the teacher. There were only 8 children who got score 44-62 and 10 children got 63-81 at cycle I. Data at cycle II found that the category of Developed as Expected were 3 children and Very Well-Developed as 15 children. The data on the pre-cycle locomotor basic motion skills of 33% in Undeveloped category. Cycle I found 45% in the Began to Develop category and in the cycle II of 83% in the Very Well-Developed category. This study found that traditional games was appropriate to improve locomotor skill.