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The intention of the present investigation was to find out the effect of basketball specific training and traditional method of training on agility, explosive power and passing ability of inter-collegiate women basketball players. To achieve the purpose of the study 60 inter-collegiate women basketball players from Bharathiar University affiliated colleges Tamilnadu, India were volunteered to participate in this study. They were randomly assigned into three groups equally. Each group consisted of 20 subjects. The three groups were named as follows, the experimental group-I named as a basketball specific training group (BSTG), experimental group-II named as the traditional method of training group (TMTG) and control group-III. After assigning the subjects into various groups the pre test was conducted on the selected variables of agility, explosive power and passing ability. After completion of the pre test, the subjects were treated with their respective training program. Training period was scheduled for twelve weeks. Experimental group-I (BSTG) underwent a basketball specific training programme, experimental group-II (TMTG) underwent traditional method of training programme (that is the subjects in TMTG were asked not to change their normal basketball game practice and in particular their own conditioning and training programme) and control group-III (CG) did not practice any specific training. After 12 weeks of the training period post test was conducted on the dependent variables of agility, explosive power and passing ability for all the three groups. To analyze the treatment effect of training paired‘t’ ratio was used. To compare the significance of mean differences among all the three groups analysis of covariance was used. Results: The basketball specific training group significantly improved (P<0.05) the selected variables of agility, explosive power and passing ability better than the traditional method of training. Traditional method of training group significantly improved (P<0.05) the selected variables of agility, explosive power and passing ability better than the control group. The control group did not show any significant improvement on the selected variables. Conclusion: Based on the results it was concluded that the implication of multi components training programme specific to the basketball game might have been the source of its dominance on the improvement of agility, explosive power and passing ability of the women basketball players.

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The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of silambam and karate with yogic training on agility and arm explosive power of collegiate male students. 100 students were selected from Karpagam University as a subject for this study. The subjects age: body weight; height (21 ± 2.3 years; 65 ± 5.4; 166 ± 4.5 cm) respectively. The subjects were randomly divided into five equal groups with each group consisting of 20 subjects. Group-I underwent silambam training, Group-II underwent karate training. Group – III underwent silambam with yogic training, Group – IV underwent karate with yogic training, Group- V act as control group, they were not given any special treatment.  The experimental period was 12 weeks. Pre-test and posttest were taken before and after the training programme. The selected physical variables were agility and arm explosive power. During the intervention phase, a modified training program was offered by a well-trained silambam coaches to the experimental group under the supervision of the researcher at Karpagam University in Tamilnadu. All participants were encouraged to continue their standard physical activities and routine procedures. The intervention phase 12 weeks and included evening 60 minutes silambam, karate and yogic coaching classes for five days in a week. To find out the significant Effects of silambam karate with yogic training on selected physical variable of agility and arm explosive power. The ANCOVA statistical technique was used to find the mean difference between the groups on physical variables of agility and arm explosive power. The results of the study revealed a significant group × test interaction (p < 0.05). Follow-up analyses indicated that while group differences in physical variables existed between the five groups of the pre-test. In posttest all the experimental groups were found to have significantly (p < 0.05) better performance on the physical variables than the control group. The findings of the present study suggest that silambam with yogic training improved the physical variables on agility and arm explosive power of collegiate Male silambam players.

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