Indonesian Climbing Coach Careers From A Gender Perspective

Abstract

Women who have careers in sports coaching still tend to be low, especially in masculine sports such as sport climbing. There were several studies that examined the careers of athletes and coaches, but there was no research that examined the careers of coaches in sport climbing from a gender perspective. The study investigated the career position of Indonesian sport climbing coaches viewed from a gender perspective. This research applied a qualitative research approach with a case study method. The respondent in this study was one female coach who had been a national athlete and had international achievements and had sent her athletes to international competitions. The sample was taken using snowball sampling so that there were more respondents, namely male coaches, head coaches, male athletes and women athletes. Women trained by female coach thus forming a triangulation of respondents. Observation, open interviews, and documentation were used as data collecting tools. The results of this research show that the career of female coaches kept improving, starting from being a sport climbing coach for children at the Pasar festival, then becoming a coach for Denjaka and Kopassus, becoming a DKI junior coach, and now coaching the Papua PON team. Apart from that, the respondent has also been a sport climbing athlete who excelled both nationally and internationally. Due to his achievements as an athlete and trainer, the respondent now works as a functional civil servant at the Ministry of Youth and Sports whose main task is to train sport climbing athletes. To further demonstrate his existence, the respondent has begun to expand into the world of service industry. By establishing the largest indoor sport climbing training center in Indonesia called Indoclimb. The respondent serves as head coach and one of the owners of Indo Climb.