doi no.:05.2017-11194192              DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2017-11194192/

Inder Kerketta¹ & Dr. Ratnesh Singh²

Affiliations:
1 Research Scholar, Department of Physical Education, GGV, Bilaspur (C.G.), India

2 Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, GGV, Bilaspur (C.G.), India

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of the present study was to investigate relationship of selected motor fitness components to field goal speed of male university basketball players. For this purpose the researcher selected 20 male basketball players from Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur (C.G.) and age ranged from 17-28 years. The selected motor fitness: agility was measured by applying the 10×4 yard shuttle run test and recorded in seconds; reaction time for finger and foot was measured by applying the nelson finger and foot reaction time test and recorded in seconds; speed was measured by applying the 50 yard dash run test and recorded in seconds and field goal speed was measured by applying the Johnson field goal speed test and recorded in counts. Descriptive statistics and Pearson Product Moment Coefficient of correlation with the significant level at 0.05 was used to investigate the correlations between selected motor fitness components to field goal speed. The all statistical analysed was using MS Excel and SPSS 16.0 version. The results of the study indicates that there was significant relationship found in agility, reaction time (foot) and speed in correlation between field goal speed ability and there was insignificant correlation found between reaction time (finger) and field goal speed ability of Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur (C.G.).

Keywords: Field goal Speed, Agility, Reaction Time (Finger and Foot) and Speed.

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