INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS ISSN(print): 2643-9840, ISSN(online): 2643-9875 Volume 06 Issue 01 January 2023 DOI: 10.47191/ijmra/v6-i1-43, Impact Factor: 6.261 Page No. 379-386 IJMRA, Volume 06 Issue 01 Janaury 2023 www.ijmra.in Page 379 Analysis of Athletes' Anxiety Levels Before Special Matches in Martial Arts Maratul Afifah 1 , FransFile Manihuruk 2 , Bernadeta Suhartini 3 , Muhamad Ichsan Sabillah 4 , Fiky Zarya 5 1,2,3,4 Department of Sport Science, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia 5 Departemnet Of Sport Science, Padang state university, Padang, Indonesia ABSTRACT: Anxiety in athletes before the game makes the athlete's performance not optimal and results in the athlete's performance decreases. This study aims to determine the level of anxiety of athletes before special matches in martial arts in sports that can arise in athletes and non-athletes studied through literature reviews. The method in this study uses a literature review with a qualitative approach from 15 research articles on pre-match anxiety in sports. The results of the literature review analysis conducted stated that the athlete's anxiety level increased higher before starting the game. It is concluded that in order for the athlete's performance to be maximized in the match, athletes must have good psychology before the match by paying attention to emotional factors, psychology, and athlete training that has been maximized. KEYWORDS: Sports, Anxiety, Martial Arts I. INTRODUCTION Sport is a complex thing, sports can be seen from various points of view, related to the achievement of achievements as one of the goals of sports (Hardiyono, 2020; Rohmansyah, 2017). There are many influencing factors in achieving these achievements, including physical, psychic, environmental, and other factors that can influence a person in the process of achieving achievements. Appearance at the time of exercise and furthermore, of course, the results or achievements in sports are greatly influenced by the presence of psychic factors, one of which is anxiety (Singgih & Gunarsa, 2008). In doing excessive exercise or when athletes do overtraining, it will experience physical fatigue and psychic factors, namely anxiety. Psychic factors originate within the athlete himself, such as emotional problems, motivation, intelligence, high anxiety, excessive stress (Verawati, 2016). These factors will certainly affect the athlete's performance, but in this case it will only be discussed about the problem caused, namely anxiety. Anxiety can affect the physical and mental condition of the athlete concerned such as increased heart rate, palms grinding, dry mulu which causes thirst, disturbances in the stomach or stomach and muscles of the shoulders and neck become stiff (Gunarsa, 2004). In some areas there are still many coaches who do not understand about sports psychology so that coaches cannot see the psychological condition of their athletes both on and off the field. Therefore, the coach cannot overcome the anxiety of his athletes when attending the competition. Especially in Indonesia, there is still a lack of coaching staff who can read the situation of athletes' conditions on the psychological side so that it can affect team performance (A. Maulana & Rusdiana, 2019). In the world of sports that one of the components of sports psychology is anxiety. Anxiety is a problem arising from the emotions that often face athletes, especially in individual sports with fairly high difficulties (Setiabudi & Santoso, 2020). Human beings there are positive and there are negative feelings. Positive feelings such as happiness, joy, joy. Negative feelings such as disappointment, disappointment, worry and so on. Anxiety is a psychological aspect that is normal for a person to experience (Jannah, 2016). Ali, (2012) Control of anxiety levels is very important to do. (Eskandari & Al, 2013) Anxiety control requires special methods. Anxiety in sports is related to mental toughness (Raynaldi et al., 2016). Many sports experts argue that the psychological factors that play an important role in the achievement of achievements are determined by maturity and mental toughness (Clarasati & Jatmika, 2017). Anxiety problems experienced by an athlete such as, problems caused by external factors, namely problems that come from outside the athlete, for example the presence of opponents, referees, spectators, and the environment (Verawati, 2016). The environment in this case of the sports field is always full of anxiety and conflicts, full of fear. At a game, it is clear that anxiety greatly affects the coaches and athletes' achievements. Although an athlete is a former champion, it is rare for the