Komarudin, Mulyana
Concentration exercise process holds essential role in attaining optimum learning achievement. An athlete with less concentration often time has disturbance in his technical skill, thus his hit may be inaccurate, hit on ball often time missed and stuck in the net, offside ball, and it is hard for an athlete in a competition to direct the ball in the position which is out from opponent's range. Those symptoms indicate that varied and interesting exercise process for instance; brain jogging is needed. This research is aimed to find out whether brain jogging affects significantly toward the increase of concentration and learning achievement. Experiment was conducted as research method. The population is 30 tennis athletes practicing in Core Siliwangi Bandung Club. From purposive sampling, 10 samples were gained. Sample group is given the treatment of brain jogging in 11 meetings, once a week. One-group pretest-posttest design was conducted as research design. Instruments used in this research are (1) to measure concentration, Concentration Grid Test (CGT) is applied, (2) to measure tennis skill learning achievement, tennis skill test is conducted which covers (a) forehand test, (b) backhand test, and (c) placing service test. t-test is used as data analysis technique. The result of this research shows that there is significant effect of brain jogging toward the increase of concentration and learning achievement. The writer suggests that the brain jogging exercise should be integrated in an exercise program, thus each session of athlete's exercise will include brain jogging to increase concentration and learning achievement especially in learning several sport skills, tennis in particular. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
Faculty of Sport Education and Health, Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Jl. Dr. Setiabudi no 229, Bandung, 40154, Indonesia
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