RELATIONSHIP OF SELECTED ANTHROPOMETRIC VARIABLES WITH THE PERFORMANCE OF JUDO PLAYERS

Mr. Chetan Sharma and Dr. Ashok Kumar Sharma

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the “relationship of selected anthropometric variables with the performance of judo players”. The study was conducted on 30 male national and international Judo players of Haryana, 18-28 years of age group. For estimating Standing Height, leg length, arm length, chest circumference (centimeter) , stadiometer, and flexible steel tape was used and the judo performance (out of 10) was graded by a panel of experts on the basis of their skills, techniques and match result. Statistics: - To find out the relationship between the selected anthropometric variables and with the performance of judo players was established for each item by computing Pearson Product Movement co-efficient of correlation. The level of significance chosen to test the hypothesis was 0.05, P < 0.05. The result showed that Standing Height, leg length, arm length and chest circumference of an individual correlates maximum with judo performance. The coefficient of correlation of standing height (r =-0.84), leg length (r =-0.69), arm length (r =0.72) and chest circumference (r =0.68) were found to be positively significant with judo Players performance at 0.05 level of significance. The finding indicates that Standing Height, leg length, arm length, chest circumference were important variables for better performance in judo.

Keywords: Judo players, anthropometric variables, standing height, leg length, arm length.