Tapering in the Sport of Karate: Narrative Review

Abstract

Karate is a sport that involves physical contact and has been very popular all over the world, one of which aims to achieve achievements. Participation in martial arts is considered to be a sport that attaches great importance to physical exercise, psychology and physiology that must be well fostered by the coach. Therefore, a correct training program must be prepared and understand the decrease in training weights for the few weeks before the game. Tapering strategy in karate martial arts is an effort to improve the performance of the competition. Tapering is a decrease in the weight of exercise carried out about 8-14 days aimed at maximizing psychological, physiological and physical adaptations resulting from the loading of previous exercises. The results of research and empirical evidence have proven that tapering can improve athletes' performance and are widely practiced in the world of sports achievements that take place two weeks before the competition. After the preparation of this paper, coaches and athletes, especially in the karate martial arts branch, can understand and apply tapering methods so that the highest achievements can be achieved.

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“…One sport that is in great demand by young people is the martial sport of karate, a martial art from Japan developed in China, It is a form of exercise that involves learning the science to defend or protect oneself using bare hands and without tools or weapons. "Karate is a self-defense technique with bare hands or without weapons" (Yudhistira et al, 2023), Karate means empty-handed martial arts used to develop character through training so that a karateka not only learns physical strength, but also learns mental, spiritual, and personality strength (Koropanovski et al, 2011). From sports to the martial arts branch of karate, which is in great demand among teenagers because a child will be considered more able to control and protect himself if he can participate in extracurricular karate, and also someone will be seen for his martial arts skills, especially when an athlete can make achievements in that field.…”