Effect of Practicing with Standard and Non-Standard Equipments on Improvement of Selected Fundamental Skill in field Hockey

Mr.S.Joniton; Dr. v. Gopinath

Volume : IV, Issue : IX, September - 2015

Effect of Practicing with Standard and Non-Standard Equipments on Improvement of Selected Fundamental Skill in field Hockey

Mr. S. Joniton, Dr. V. Gopinath

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of practicing with standard and non standard equipment on improvement of selected fundamental skill in field hockey. To achieve the purpose sixty (N=60) men beginners in field hockey were randomly selected and they were divided in to Experimental group I [(Non standard equipments practitioners), n =30, practicing fundamental hockey skill namely dribbling, pushing, and hitting, 90 to 120 min/day for 4 to 5 day/week over the period of eight weeks] and Experimental group II [(Standard equipment practitioners), n=30, practicing fundamental skills namely dribbling, pushing, and hitting ,90 to 120 min/day for 4 to 5 days/weeks over the period 0f eight weeks)] were selected as subjects their age were 19 to 21 years. After eight weeks they were measured dribbling, pushing, and hitting (standard test) the collected data were statistically treated by using independent �t� test, 0.05 level of confidence was fixed to test the significance. The result shows those non-standard equipment practiced groups were better than standard equipment practiced group improvement of selected hockey skills. Hence it was concluded that non-standard equipment practiced beginners improve fundamental field hockey skills than standard practiced beginners.