The Relation Between Agility, Jumping Ability and Sports Performance in Professional Badminton Players

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the corelation between agility, jumping ability and sports performance of professional badminton players. To accomplish the goal of this study fifty-one (51) professional badminton players between age fifteen to thirty (15-30 years) were chosen. The hexagonal agility test was used for measuring agility, vertical jump test for the jumping ability and accuracy test for the sports performance. The results of this study showed that there is a weak, negative corelation (r=-0.06) between agility and jumping ability, the jumping ability and sports performance had a positive but weak corelation (r=0.02) and the agility and sports performance showed negative and weak corelation (r=-1.64). it is a highly statistically significant study (P=0.01). Thus, this study concludes that there is no corelations between these three qualities of badminton players so if any one quality is degraded it won’t affect the other two qualities.