The Development Model Coaching of Karate Club in the Junior High School of Medan City

Karate is one of the fastest growing branches of martial arts in Indonesia and in North Sumatra Province. The karate sports is one of the flagship sports branches of North Sumatera Province which is able to produce achievements in every sporting event. Lately, the achievement of the karate sport is stagnant and tends to experience a decline in achievement. The lack of achievement is certainly due to the ineffectiveness of existing coaching models. Based on observations, and interviews with coaches of Karate clubs in Medan's First junior High School, information was obtained that the coaching model running in the Medan City Karate Club was not uniform and not well organized. This research includes the type of research and development (research and development) or more often abbreviated as R and D. This research took place in 3 years, where the first year was focused on organizational arrangement and the development of talent identification tools. In the second year, priority will be given to structuring the quality of the training which in this case is focused on the design of the karate club curriculum. Whereas in the third year it is targeted for structuring the competition system. Broadly speaking, each year the research goes through 3 stages, namely (1) the preliminary study phase, (2) the drafting stage, (3) the testing phase. The population in this study is the Junior Karate Club registered in the Medan City Branch Management.