¹Muhammad Arifin,²Suharjana,³Sumarjo,⁴Muhamad Ichsan Sabillah,⁵Faza Annasai

^1,2,3,4,5Department Of Sport Science, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia

This study aims to determine the effect of internal imagery training on increasing the accuracy of free kicks of young Indonesian football athletes aged 13 years. This type of research is an experiment with the design of one group pre-test and post-test. The population in this study was 24 young Indonesian football athletes aged 13 years. The sample in this study was 10 people taken using purposive sampling techniques. The instrument used is to measure the accuracy of the free kick using a test of shooting the ball at the target. The data analysis technique used is the paired sample t-test. The results showed that there was a significant influence of internal imagery exercises on increasing the accuracy of free kicks from the initial test and the final test increased by a difference of 4.7, namely from an average score of 9.7 in the pre-test to 14.4 in the post-test, and strengthened by the results of the t-test using a paired sample t-test with a t value of -7,870 and a p significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. This study concludes that there is a significant influence of internal imagery training on increasing the accuracy of free kicks of young Indonesian football athletes aged 13 years.

Internal Imagery, Accuracy free kick, Football.

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