Exploring the Relationship Between Wall Drop Punt Kick and Catch (Tripela Sports) Performance and Manipulative Tests of the Motor Competence Assessment Battery in Early Adolescents

• Author(s): Matos, Rui ; Amaro, Nuno ; Lopes, Nataniel ; Costa, Pedro ; Jacinto, Miguel ; Rodrigues, Filipe ; Antunes, Raul ; Coelho, Luís ; Ibáñez, Sergio J. ; Estevan, Isaac ; Monteiro, Diogo
• Date: 2025
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.8/10449
• Origin: IC-online
• Subject(s): Competence; assessment; development; early; adolescents; validity
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Repositório IC-Online

Description

Our aim in this study was to analyze associations between the two manipulative tests of the Motor Competence Assessment (MCA) battery and the Wall Drop Punt Kick & Catch (WDPK&C) motor task. One hundred and twelve early adolescents (60 boys; 52 girls; M age = 12.67, SD = 1.78 years) participated. Overall, strong correlations were found between the WDPK&C and the MCA manipulative tests, either separately (r = .802 for kicking, r = .762 for throwing) or collectively (r = .835). In boys, correlations between WDPK&C and MCA kicking (r = .722) and MCA throwing (r = .754) were similar. In girls, MCA kicking was more closely related to WDPK&C performance (r = .612) than MCA throwing (r = .330). These results reinforce the possible use of WDPK&C as a gross manipulative coordination test, either by itself or when integrated into motor competence batteries.