The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors in the idea of KENDO and lower rank factors regarding intended draws in team-competitions of KENDO. The participants in this study were 1168 high-school KENDO club members and 175 coaches of those clubs.
Factor analysis was used for the extraction of factors in the idea of KENDO, and analysis of variance was used for lower rank factors regarding intended draws in team-competitions of KENDO. The main results were as follows:
1. 13 factors in idea of KENDO held by high-school KENDO club members and their coaches were extracted and identified as“traditionalism”,“additional value”,“victory-oriented principle”,“respecting opponents”,“significance of match”,“strictness”,“group consciousness”, fundamentalism“, practice”,“KATA” (form),“expectation for future path”, “pureness”and“brilliance”.
The main factors were“traditionalism”,“respecting opponents”,“additional value”and“victory-oriented principle”
2. These 4 factors were divided into two different groups according to idea of KENDO: group 1(“traditionalism”and“respecting opponents”) and group 2 (“additional value”and“victory-oriented principle”).
3. As the skill level of KENDO goes up, higher points were given to“traditionalism”,“additional value”and“victory-oriented principle”, but lower points were given to“respecting opponents”.4. The two factors,“additional value”and“victory-oriented principle”were directly related to the factors of intended draws.5. The lower rank factors of“additional value”and“victory-oriented principle”were high-school students' idea of KENDO matches as a sport and coaches' idea of KENDO.
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