Head-Heavy and Head-Light Rackets on Forehand Groundstroke Result

Adi Abdilah, Teguh Satria, Prayogi Guntara, Mustika Fitri

2017

Abstract

This research is motivated by the use of head-heavy and head-light racket on forehand groundstroke result that will get different result. The use of head-heavy racket will result in better accuracy compared to head-light racket. The objective of this research is to find out the effect of using head-heavy racket with forehand groundstroke on tennis, the influence of using head-light racket on forehand groundstroke on tennis, and to find out which racket is more influential on forehand groundstroke on tennis. The method used in this research is descriptive method with quantitative approach. The sampling technique in this research is purposive sampling with 8 tennis athletes from 25 members of UPI tennis club. The instrument used is The Hewiit Tennis Achievement Test. From the results of data processing and data analysis with homogeneity and normality test, the data are homogeneous and normal. Hypothesis calculation from equality significance test (one party) calculation results t-count 8,245 and t-table 1,761. Obtained t-count> t-table so that H0 is rejected. That is, the head-heavy racket is better than head-light. It was concluded that the head-heavy racket was more significant than the head-light racket against forehand groundstroke on tennis.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Abdilah A., Satria T., Guntara P. and Fitri M. (2017). Head-Heavy and Head-Light Rackets on Forehand Groundstroke Result.In 2nd International Conference on Sports Science, Health and Physical Education - Volume 2: ICSSHPE, ISBN 978-989-758-317-9, pages 400-403. DOI: 10.5220/0007073609190922

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsshpe17,
author={Adi Abdilah and Teguh Satria and Prayogi Guntara and Mustika Fitri},
title={Head-Heavy and Head-Light Rackets on Forehand Groundstroke Result},
booktitle={2nd International Conference on Sports Science, Health and Physical Education - Volume 2: ICSSHPE,},
year={2017},
pages={400-403},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007073609190922},
isbn={978-989-758-317-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 2nd International Conference on Sports Science, Health and Physical Education - Volume 2: ICSSHPE,
TI - Head-Heavy and Head-Light Rackets on Forehand Groundstroke Result
SN - 978-989-758-317-9
AU - Abdilah A.
AU - Satria T.
AU - Guntara P.
AU - Fitri M.
PY - 2017
SP - 400
EP - 403
DO - 10.5220/0007073609190922