Abstract :
Karate is a martial art originating from Japan which was brought into
Japan via Okinawa. This martial art is called ?tote? which means like ?Chinese
hand?. Gojukai has a Gojuryu style of Karate with the characteristics of Karate
being gentle but still hard. In the process of assessing karate students, several
criteria were needed to measure the talent interest of students in the field of self-
defense, especially karate. In order to make the right decisions in this study, the
Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) method was used. The calculation test
performed by comparing manual calculations with on the system using the SAW
method, shows that the calculation results obtained are the same. Testing the
results of the recommendations on a number of 30 students who have been tested
with a comparison between student interests, the trainer's recommendation test
and the system using the SAW method shows that the percentage of the equation is
76.6667%.