Comparative Study of Agility between Volleyball and Basketball Players of Manipur

Abstract

The complex reaction ability, speed, acceleration, maximum speed, speed of whole-body change of direction, and agility represent the basic components of sports performance. Agility is one of the main determinants of performance in different team events. The objective of the study was to compare the agility between the volleyball and basketball players of Manipur. The researcher selected 60 players (30 each of volleyball and basketball games) between the 20-25 years of age from Manipur participated at state and national level selected randomly for this study. The SEMO Agility test was administered to assess the agility. An independent 't' test was employed to find out the significant difference in agility between the two games and the level of significance was set at 0.05. The significant mean difference in agility between the volleyball and basketball players was found as the calculated ‘t’ =2.81 is greater than the table value of ‘t’ = 2.00 (P<0.05).  Therefore, the result of the study clearly showed significant difference in agility between the volleyball and basketball players of Manipur.