GUSTA Exercise Model: A Tennis Skill for Beginners

Abstract

Gumilar Mulya, Resty Agustryani

The purpose of this research and development is to generate a tennis skill exercise model for beginners. Moreover, this research was conducted to obtain deeper information about the development and application of GUSTA tennis skill model exercise for beginners and to recognize the effectiveness and efficiency of the created model. This research employed a Research and Development research method (R&D) proposed by Borg and Gall. The subjects were the students of Physical Education, Health and Recreation of Universitas Negeri Siliwangi, Tasikmalaya, West Java. Model effectiveness test applied a Modified Timers Forehand and Backhand Volley Test and Hewitt’s achievement test to recognize the subject’s tennis skill level. The data were analyzed using t test with the significance level of 0.05. The data analysis revealed that the average score of the pretest and posttest were 46.4, and 80.4 respectively, while the pretest standard deviation was 18.98 and 19.22 respectively for the post test. Moreover, the average of pretest and posttest was -34 and the deviation standard was 4.49. The t score was -58.6, significance (2-tailed) 0.000 with significance 0.05. Thus, H0 was rejected. Based on the information above, it can be concluded that the developed GUSTA exercise model, tennis skill for beginners was effective and could improve tennis skill for beginners.