RELATIONSHIP OF MOTOR ABILITY BETWEEN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL MALE JUDO PLAYERS

Mr. Chetan Sharma and Dr. Ashok Kumar Sharma

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the “relationship of motor ability between national and international level male judo players of Haryana”. The study was conducted on 30 male national (N₁=15) and international (N₂=15) Judo players of Haryana, 18-28 years of age group. For estimating motor ability, Barrow motor ability test (1957) was used which included standing broad jump (cm.), Zig-zag run (sec.), Medicine ball put (cm), Soft ball Throw (mt.), Wall pass (nos.) and 60 yard run (sec). It was hypothesized that there would be insignificant relationship of motor ability between national and international level male judo players of Haryana. Statistics: - To find out the relationship of motor ability between national and international level male judo players of Haryana was established for each item by computing Pearson Product Movement co-efficient of correlation. The result showed that there was insignificant relationship between standing broad jump, zig-zag run, medicine ball put, soft ball throw, wall pass and 60 yard run of national and international male judo players of as the obtained results (0.31, 0.34, 0.01, 0.22, 0.36 and 0.18 respectively) showed positive relationship between the two at 0.05 level of significance. The finding indicates that standing broad jump, zig-zag run, medicine ball put, soft ball throw, wall pass and 60 yard run were important variables for better performance in judo.

Keywords: Judo players, motor ability, Barrow motor ability test, correlation.