ACTIVITY PROFILE BETWEEN WINNERS AND LOSERS IN PENCAK SILAT TADING MALE CATEGORY CLASS E SILAT OLAHRAGA SEA GAMES 2015

ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was investigated between winning and losing in silat 28th 2015 sea games Singapore during competitive matches like quarterfinal, semi-final and final in male category class E and profile of elite silat exponent of a pencak silat. This study had been analysing between four different matched with 4 different countries. Elite silat exponents’ physiological attributes were assessed and characterised by their motion categories like punch, kick, block, catch, topple, sweep, dodge, self-release, block and punch, block and kick, block and sweep, fake punch, fake kick and others. Generally, sport of pencak silat is same likes the others of martial art which used body posture and technique in performance but only different in term of their motion categories.



INTRODUCTION

Silat can be described a form of martial art practiced throughout the Malay Archipelago. Silat is one of the martial arts that originated from Indonesia. According to (Shapie & Elias, 2016) Olahraga means the ability for silat exponents to perform their silat techniques in combat with striking and defensive actions such as punching, kicking, throwing, catching, parrying blocking and the other skill related to the silat techniques. It is called as a tradition practiced in southern Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Brunei, Philippines and Malaysia. Silat is the Malay art of combat fighting art. Silat can be divided into two categories or parts which are Silat Martial Arts and Sports (Aziz, Tan, and Teh 2002). Sport martial arts are well adjusted to the Philippines. For the real attack in silat, had an opponent with superior strength can be solved because in Silat Sports has a several of techniques used in defeating opponent with a stronger built. In addition, the minimum body movements needed to maintain the strength of fighters to respond more effectively and better attacks. The combination of the words Pencak and Silat into a compound word was made for the first time when an organization of the unity of Pencak schools and Silat schools in Indonesia was founded in Surakarta in 1948, which called Ikatan Pencak Silat Indonesia (The Indonesian Pencak Silat Association), abbreviated as IPSI (Kartomi, 2011). Silat is a fighting and survival art combination. According to Wilson (2003).
The other source that defines silat is from the word of kilat (lightning) (Shamsuddin, 2005). Thus, Pencak Silat brings to light very different subjectivities, inter-subjectivities, and ways of objectifying the body in regional- and national-level practice (Wilson, 2009). In the art of Silat Sports, pesilat will learn special attacks, tactic and defensive techniques. In fact, in self-defence, what matters is the person's response to the accuracy of one's opponent using body movements to a minimum level. Other than that, martial arts are the combat system of traditions and practices, which are made for a variety of reasons like self-defense, spiritual development, competition, physical health and fitness, mental and physical (Shapie, Zenal, Parnabas, & Abdullah, 2016). To obtain timely and effective responses to the attacks of the opponent, pesilat are taught specific techniques that will allow them to develop his full potential. For the beginner of pesilat, they do not use any weapons, martial arts practice. Then, they are taught to use special weapons such as sticks, knives, and other weapons because easy them to learn and know how to use when using the real weapons (Shapie, 2011)




MATERIALS AND METHOD

Match analysis
A publicly available video recording for four silat matched with different country in 28th SEA Games 2015 in Singapore were taken from Singapore Sports Council (YouTube) and were used for the analysis. This four silat match was a men's class E (65kg to 70kg). Subsequent player motion analysis was carried out with repeated the video sequences of the silat match. The video could be paused and played back frame-by frame for ease of use. There were 14 types of indicators used to analyse the matches. The frequency, mean, and standard deviation of the performance were calculated subsequently. The method used for the analysis was video analysis and hand notational.



                                                                                 MOTION CATEGORIES

According to Shapie, Oliver, J., O’Donoghue, P., and Tong, R. (2013) Silat exponent’s motions were coded into 14 different types of categories and were defined as follows:

Punch:
The punch ‘tumbuk’ attack is done by a hand with a closed fist hitting the target. In silat punching is often used to fight the opponent. It can be a straight punch ‘tumbuk lurus’ or uppercut ‘sauk’ to the exponent body’s (Latiff, 2012)

Kick:
The kick ‘tendang’ is an attacking movement which is performed with one leg or two legs simultaneously. A kick can be aimed at any target. It can be front kick ‘tendang depan’, side-kick ‘depak’ or semi-circular side kick ‘tendang lengkar’ (Anuar, 1992).
Block:
The blocking movements begin with the posture position ‘sikap pasang’: the exponent stands straight with his hands around his body or close to his chest. Blocking or parrying ‘tangkisan’ can be done using arms, elbows and legs with the purpose to block off or striking back at any attack (Anuar, 1992).

Catch:
The catch ‘tangkapan’ is done by using the hand to obstruct the opponent from carrying out an attack. The silat exponent is able to prevent himself from being attacked by pointing the attack which he has caught to another direction. A catch which twists or drags the opponent is forbidden. Also, a catch which could break the part which is being held such as the leg and waist is also forbidden. These regulations exist to protect the silat exponent’s (Anuar, 1992).

Topple:
There are various ways of toppling down one’s opponent. For example, a silat exponent ‘pesilat’ can either push, shove the opponent’s back leg from the bag or from the side, shove, hit, kick, strike or punch to make the opponent lose his balance. Every fall is considered valid as long as the silat exponent topples his opponent down without wrestling or he is able to overpower the opponent whom he has brought down (Anuar, 1992).

Sweep:
Swiping ‘sapuan’ involves attacking an opponent’s leg which are on the ground to unstabilise him and bring down to the ground. A silat exponent can perform this attacking movement either with his right or left leg, Hence, front sweep ‘sapuan depan’ is done by swinging the leg to the front to push an opponent’s front leg, while back sweep ‘sapuan belakang’ is carried out by swinging the leg backward to hit the back leg (Anuar, 1992).

Evade/Dodge:
The evade ‘elakan’ technique is carried out by silat exponent when he tries to evade an attack. This technique does not require the silat exponent to touch the opponent in fending off the attack. They are many ways of carrying out his defensive movement such as dodging ‘gelek’, retreat ‘mundur’, evasion to the side ‘elak sisi’, bending ‘elak serung’, jumping ‘lonjak’, ducking ‘susup’ and etc (Anuar, 1992).

Self-Release:
Self-release ‘lepas tangkapan’ technique is a technique to unlock any clinch or catch from an opponent (Anuar, 1993).

Block and Punch:
 The blocking technique is used to block any hand or leg attack from the opponent and followed by counter attack using the hand to punch the opponent (Shapie, Oliver, O’Donoghue, & Tong, 2013).

Block and Kick:
The blocking technique is used to block any hand or leg attack from the opponent and followed by counter attack using the leg to kick the opponent (Shapie et al., 2013)

Block and Sweep:
The blocking technique is used to block any hand or leg attack from the opponent and followed by counter attack using sweeping technique to the opponent (Shapie et al., 2013)

Fake Punch:
An action which a silat exponent intends to confuse the opponent using a fake punch to break his opponent’s defensive posture (Shapie et al., 2013)

Fake Kick:
An action which a silat exponent intends to confuse the opponent using a fake kick to break his opponent defensive posture (Shapie et al., 2013)




RELIABILITY OF OBSERVATION

The author analysed all the activities and simultaneously classified each change of motion in a single match. Two observations were done separated by 48 hours. It requires experienced silat practitioners to analyse the data as the movement of both exponents is fast, needing close inspection. The classification of movement was subjective with work being classified according to the instruction given by the referred.


STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

The observation generated data will be frequency counted, a method of recording in observational research in which the researcher records each occurrence clearly defined behaviour within a certain time frame. All the raw data generated into SPSS for more detailed analysis (Shapie, et al. 2013). Statistical analysis was conducted using Statistical Package for Social Scientists, version 20.





RESULTS

The tables below show the actions performed during the competitions and their outcomesin the match, the frequency profile of actions for all 4 matches of all 8 contestants from class E. these notational data will consist mean and standard deviation for all matches.
Table 1. Frequency of actions and outcomes recorded during a silat match Quarterfinal THA (L) vs SIN (W)
Action
Outcome
Hit Elsewhere
Hit Target
Miss Opponent
Not Available*
Total
L
W
T
L
W
T
L
W
T
Block

2
2
2
9
11




13
Block and Kick
1

1

1
1




2
Block and Punch



1

1
2
2
4

5
Block and sweep
1
1
2







2
Kick
19
12
31
8
4
12
13
4
17

60
Fake Kick

5
5
4
1
5
6

6

16
Punch
10
19
29
6
19
25
9
9
18

72
Fake Punch











Self-Release



7
2
9
4
2
6

15
Topple
1
1
2
1
1
2
2
1
3

7
Sweep
1
8
9

3
3
6
2
8

20
Catch
1
4
5
1
5
6
2
9
11

22
Dodge

1
1
5
16
21
2
2
4

26
Others









34
34
Total


87


96


77
34
294

*Noted: W- Winner   L – Loser   T- Total


Opponent
Sweep
Kick

Punch
Topple
Total
Thailand (Loser)
2

40
25
4
76
Singapore (Winner)
11

20
47
3
80





Table 1. Frequency of actions and outcomes recorded during a silat match Quarterfinal MAS (W) vs INA (L)
Action
Outcome
Hit Elsewhere
Hit Target
Miss Opponent
Not Available*
Total
W
L
T
W
L
T
W
L
T
Block



5
1
6
2
2
4

10
Block and Kick






1

1

1
Block and Punch






1

1

1
Block and sweep











Kick
1
9
10
4
11
15
14
3
17

42
Fake Kick



3
4
7

1
1

8
Punch



2
2
4
1

1

5
Fake Punch
1
1
2
5
7
12
8
2
10

24
Self-Release



1
3
4




4
Topple




2
2
5
1
6

8
Sweep




1
1
1
2
3

4
Catch



9
4
13

1
1

14
Dodge




6
6




6
Others









14
14
Total


12


70


45
14
141

*Noted: W- Winner   L – Loser   T- Total

Opponent

Sweep
Kick
Punch
Topple
Total

Malaysia (Winner)
1
19
3
7
30

Indonesia (Loser)
3
23
2
3
31







Table 1. Frequency of actions and outcomes recorded during a silat match Semi-final SIN (L) vs MAS (W)
Action
Outcome
Hit Elsewhere
Hit Target
Miss Opponent
Not Available*
Total
W
L
T
W
L
T
W
L
T
Block
5
5
10







10
Block and Kick











Block and Punch











Block and sweep











Kick
6
6
12
13
8
21
17
5
22

55
Fake Kick
4
1
5



1

1

6
Punch
8
2
10
3

3
2
1
3

16
Fake Punch
2
2
4







4
Self-Release











Topple
1
1
2







2
Sweep
4
3
7
3
3
6
3

3

16
Catch
4
3
7



1
1
2

9
Dodge
2
2
4







4
Others









18
18
Total


61


30


31
18
140

*Noted: W- Winner   L – Loser   T- Total

Opponent

Sweep
Kick
Punch
Topple
Total
Malaysia (W)

7
36
13
1
57
Singapore (L)

6
19
3
1
29








Table 1. Frequency of actions and outcomes recorded during a silat match Final MAS (W) vs VIE (L)
Action
Outcome
Hit Elsewhere
Hit Target
Miss Opponent
Not Available*
Total
L
W
T
L
W
T
L
W
T
Block
4

4
2
6
8
5
3
8

20
Block and Kick
1
1
2
1
2
3

1
1

6
Block and Punch

1
1







1
Block and sweep











Kick
11
5
16
5
3
8
7
1
8

32
Fake Kick



1

1
1

1

2
Punch
2
2
4
5

5
1

1

10
Fake Punch



1

1
3

3

4
Self-Release
1
1
2
1
2
3
10

10

15
Topple

1
1

10
10
4

4

15
Sweep




1
1
1
3
4

5
Catch
4

4

11
11




15
Dodge
3

3

3
3

1
1

7
Others









15
15
Total


23


54


41
15
133

*Noted: W- Winner   L – Loser   T- Total

Opponent

Sweep
Kick
Punch
Topple
Total
Vietnam (Loser)

1
23
8
0
32
Malaysia (Winner)

4
9
2
11
26





DISCUSSION
The data above were all collected by analysing the matches from the 28th SEA Games 2015, male class E from quarter to final. Based on the results above, the overall dominant action in team Malaysia is kick whereas the less dominant action is toppled.

The first match analysed was men class E quater-final between Thailand and Singapore which the game won by Singapore. In this game, it shows that the Thailand player is more aggressive than his opponent. However, his opponent does not seem to attack much and waits for counter-attack to perform the sweep action. We can also see that the Thailand player is not physically strong enough to counter or release from his opponents sweep.

In the second match was men class E quater-final between Malaysia vs Indonesia which this match won by Malaysia. Indonesia athlete was very confident with his actions and his tactical very good seemed that his timing was on point to be able to kick his opponent more. Unfortunately, he lost the match by getting missed a lot during toppled.

The third match was men class E semi-final between Singapore vs Malaysia which this math won by Malaysia. Based on the frequency of actions table, the Singapore pesilat is very least in attacking. He often tries to kick his opponent but hits elsewhere or misses his opponents. Furthermore, it is suspected that his opponent is familiar with the Singapore pesilat’s tactic of kicking, therefore he uses the opportunity to have won the match by timing the right time to kick the Singapore pesilat’s.

The fourth and last match was between Vietnam vs Malaysia which in this match Malaysia won the game. Vietnam pesilat are more aggressive on attacking, he attacks by kicking and punch his opponent. He often tries to punch and kick his opponent but hits elsewhere or misses his opponent, and this opportunity used by Malaysia pesilat to toppled down their opponent.




CONCLUSION
Post-event analysis of hand notation indicates that the prototype system developed for this study can be used to record and evaluate a silat match. The current study has provided a great understanding of information for the silat by looking at the activity involved in competition. Both of the exponents performed more high intensity actions than low intensity actions (i.e. the frequency count). However it is important to understand that high intensity actions will contribute more in the score points (i.e. outcome that count) rather than low intensity actions. There is also a range of frequency in attacking and defensive activities used by both of the exponents. The winner (blue exponent) used more kicks than the loser which may reflect greater skill or fitness or both. However, it is still doubtful that these are the only factors that influence the match. It is recommended that future studies determine the full range of activities performed with movement classifications and the variation of strikes that contribute to losing and winning the match.                 


RECOMMENDATION
Overall, it is recommended for pesilat either winner or loser to improve their motion skill to expertise. Coaches need to emphasize the skill related fitness of an athlete to enhance their performance. There is a limitation of this case study as the findings here only represent only four silat match, so the findings cannot be generalised to all silat competition. However, the purpose of this study was to analyse the winners motion skill during a silat match. Furthermore, the system developed is useful in future study in silat. This was the first study to provide descriptive detailed information of a silat match, increasing the knowledge base and providing a methodology that can be used in future research and by coaches. Furthermore, the other sports where the frequency and duration of high intensity activity periods fail to provide sufficient information to fully characterise the de minds of the sport.



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Singapore (2015). Pencak Silat Tanding Men's Class E Final VIE vs MAS 28th SEA Games Singapore 2015, Retrieved November 16, 2017, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGK1CSVk0qs&list=PLqAmVfhsW7xNxMAyka2XKKbmUHvAPLqv2&index=7

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APPENDICES

Table 1:  Mean and Standard Deviation of quarterfinal game between Thailand (L) vs Singapore (W):

Statistics

W
L
N
Valid
83
76
Missing
0
7
Mean
1.78
1.91
Std. Error of Mean
.120
.099
Std. Deviation
1.094
.867


W

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
47
56.6
56.6
56.6
Kick
20
24.1
24.1
80.7
Topple
3
3.6
3.6
84.3
Sweep
13
15.7
15.7
100.0
Total
83
100.0
100.0



L

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
25
30.1
32.9
32.9
Kick
40
48.2
52.6
85.5
Topple
4
4.8
5.3
90.8
Sweep
7
8.4
9.2
100.0
Total
76
91.6
100.0

Missing
System
7
8.4


Total
83
100.0








Table 1:  Mean and Standard Deviation of quarterfinal game between Malaysia (W) vs Indonesia (L):

Statistics

L
W
N
Valid
31
28
Missing
0
3
Mean
2.23
2.14
Std. Error of Mean
.129
.123
Std. Deviation
.717
.651


L

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
2
6.5
6.5
6.5
Kick
23
74.2
74.2
80.6
Topple
3
9.7
9.7
90.3
Sweep
3
9.7
9.7
100.0
Total
31
100.0
100.0



W

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
3
9.7
10.7
10.7
Kick
19
61.3
67.9
78.6
Topple
5
16.1
17.9
96.4
Sweep
1
3.2
3.6
100.0
Total
28
90.3
100.0

Missing
System
3
9.7


Total
31
100.0









Table 1:  Mean and Standard Deviation of semi-final game between Malaysia (W) vs Singapore (L):

Mean and Standard Deviation:

Statistics

L
W
N
Valid
29
60
Missing
31
0
Mean
2.34
2.13
Std. Error of Mean
.174
.122
Std. Deviation
.936
.947


L

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
3
5.0
10.3
10.3
Kick
19
31.7
65.5
75.9
Topple
1
1.7
3.4
79.3
Sweep
6
10.0
20.7
100.0
Total
29
48.3
100.0

Missing
System
31
51.7


Total
60
100.0




W

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
13
21.7
21.7
21.7
Kick
36
60.0
60.0
81.7
Topple
1
1.7
1.7
83.3
Sweep
10
16.7
16.7
100.0
Total
60
100.0
100.0







Table 1:  Mean and Standard Deviation of final game between Malaysia (W) vs Vietnam (L):

Mean and Standard Deviation:
Statistics

W
L
N
Valid
26
36
Missing
10
0
Mean
2.65
1.94
Std. Error of Mean
.166
.112
Std. Deviation
.846
.674


W

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
2
5.6
7.7
7.7
Kick
9
25.0
34.6
42.3
Topple
11
30.6
42.3
84.6
Sweep
4
11.1
15.4
100.0
Total
26
72.2
100.0

Missing
System
10
27.8


Total
36
100.0




L

Frequency
Percent
Valid Percent
Cumulative Percent
Valid
Punch
8
22.2
22.2
22.2
Kick
23
63.9
63.9
86.1
Topple
4
11.1
11.1
97.2
Sweep
1
2.8
2.8
100.0
Total
36
100.0
100.0



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