PENGARUH LATIHAN KOORDINASI MATA-TANGAN TERHADAP KETERAMPILAN BERMAIN TENIS MEJA PADA SISWA EKSTRAKURIKULER SMA NEGERI 27 BONE

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the effect of hand-eye coordination training on the table tennis playing skills of students participating in the extracurricular program at SMA Negeri 27 Bone. The study employed a quantitative experimental approach using a One-Group Pretest–Posttest Design. The participants consisted of 12 students selected through purposive sampling. The research instrument was a practical table tennis skill test covering stroke accuracy, hand-eye coordination, movement technique, stroke consistency, and body posture. The intervention consisted of 12 training sessions using hand-eye coordination activities, including ball catching, wall rebounds, alternating catches, paired throwing and catching, ball control on the racket, controlled forward hitting, reaction drills, service practice, target hitting, and mini rallies. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, the Shapiro–Wilk normality test, Levene’s test, and a paired-samples t-test using IBM SPSS Statistics version 25. The descriptive results showed that the mean score increased from 42.92 in the pretest to 70.83 in the posttest, an improvement of 27.91 points. The Shapiro–Wilk significance values were 0.075 for the pretest and 0.298 for the posttest, indicating normally distributed data. The paired-samples t-test produced a significance value of 0.000 (p < 0.05). Therefore, the null hypothesis was rejected and the alternative hypothesis was accepted. The findings indicate that hand-eye coordination training had a significant positive effect on students’ table tennis playing skills.