Relationship of Kabaddi Performance with Selected Coordinative Ability of the Inter-District Players of Paschim Medinipur

Abstract

Background: Coordinative abilities are qualities of an organism to coordinative separate elements of action in our system to decide a concrete action task coordinative abilities help in learning faster and also to achieve high level of performance. Kabaddi is a combatic with great strength and coordinative ability oriented sports. Therefore it is necessary to investigate that certain coordinative abilities are acting as basic factors of the kabaddi performance or not. Aim: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Kabaddi performance and selected coordinative ability of the district player. Methodology: For the present study fourteen male Kabaddi players who had participated in district kabaddi competition held at Medinipur were randomly selected for this study. Age group of the subjects was 18-27 years. To find out the relationship of Kabaddi performance to selected coordinative abilities namely orientation ability, differentiation ability, reaction ability, balance ability and rhythmic ability. Product moment correlation was computed and verified at 0.05 level of significance. Result: Findings reveals that coordinative abilities such as reaction ability and rhythmic ability were found significantly related to the kabaddi performance as their calculated Correlation Coefficient(r) were 0.66 and 0.54 respectively. Orientation ability, differentiation ability and balance ability were not found significantly related to the kabaddi performance as their calculated Correlation Coefficient(r) were 0.05, 0.01 and 0.34 respectively.