Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine if there was a difference between forehand and backhand coincidence-anticipation timing (CAT) performance of badminton players. Badminton players participating in the study are in the age range of 18-23 ( = 20.25, SS = 1.48) and 12 top athletes who regularly participated in Super League competitions in Turkey were selected (4 female and 8 male).Those athletes were determined by using the Purposive Sampling method. Participants were 12 elit badminton players (4 female and 8 male) whose ages ranged from 18 to 23 years ( = 20.25, SS = 1.48). CAT performances were measured with modified Bassin Anticipation Timer (BAT) device. Stimulus speed used for this study was set at 4 m / s. Participants were informed about the test protocol and they performed 3 trials with a racket to familiarize BAT device. Then, participants performed 20 trials for forehand and 20 trials for backhand strokes, 40 trials in total. Collected data were transformed to absolute error (AE) and variable error (VE) scores. Independent sample t-test was employed to calculate statistical data, and the significance level was set as 0.05. Results showed that there were significant differences between forehand and backhand strokes in terms of absolute and variable error scores of participants (p<0,05). As a conclusion, CAT performance of badminton players is effected during forehand and backhand strokes. CAT forehand stroke scores are better than the backhand stroke scores.
Highlights
Introduction and PurposeBadminton is an Olympic sports branch that can be played in top tier levels by perfecting many stroke techniques, including forehand and backhand. (Salman, 2009)
The badmintonists were investigated in two different techniques.The purpose of this study is to investigate whether there is a difference in the anticipation time between the forehand and backhand strokes of Badminton athletes
It was found that the anticipation time of the badminton players who used the forehand on the variable error was better than the badminton players who made the Backhand stroke
Summary
Introduction and PurposeBadminton is an Olympic sports branch that can be played in top tier levels by perfecting many stroke techniques, including forehand and backhand. (Salman, 2009). As in any field of sports, physical competence as well as perceptual competencies, are needed to be successful in badminton. It is necessary to possess high-level perceptual abilities in order to make the skills effective and efficient. The anticipation time is one of them. Spatial anticipation is to detect what's going to happen before the signal is issued. It is to anticipate when the signal to be reacted will appear or the timing of the events sequence (Schmidt & Wrisberg, 2012). With the introduction of hormones in later ages, males were more successful in detection time performance than girls (Petrakis, 1985). Brady (1996) conducted a survey on detection time on 102 male and female students and Journal of Education and Training Studies
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