Combined influences of particular exercises with digital equipment practices on selected skill variables and overall playing ability of badminton novice players

Abstract

To attain the aim of the research thirty badminton novice players were taken from Maruthi sports training centre, Periyanaickenpalayam,CBE. The age of the subjects between 13-16 years. The subjects are divided in two groups with equal number of novice players. Training group-I with (n=15) novice players were given particular exercises with digital shuttle feeding machine practices with 12 weeks continuously, weekly 5 days allowed for practices given. other group-II acted with their regular activities. The training group tested on skill components like long service, short service and overall playing ability. The selected criterion variables long service was tested Poole long service, short service was tested with French short service and overall playing ability was tested with qualified judges. The collected scored of test before and after the training have taken for statistical analysis with paired ‘t’ test and ANCOVA. The significant level is fixed 0.05. The outcomes of the research showed that training group improved selected skill components like long service, short service and all efficiency ability was due to the combined influences of particular exercises with digital shuttle feeding machine practices programme. The second group which one acted with regular activities did not show any improvement on selected skill components with overall playing ability of badminton novice players.