Effect of Reaction and Balance Coordinative Abilities on Kicking Accuracy in Football

Countries all over the world try to show their success in the intenational sports competitions. Each and every country develops its own innovation and techniques, tactics and strategies for exhibiting top level performance so as to emerge winner and champion of sports. Modern games and sports are getting tougher and faster day by day. Now the game is enthralled by speed, stamina, great strength, suppleness, power packed encounters along with sophistication of equipment, facilities and clothes. There is all round encouragement to improve with new set-ups and even changing styles or techniques on the whole. The basic fitness at international level and even at national level is quite improving as is the widest majority of participation largely due to scientific training schedule. Sports by their very nature are enjoyable, challenging all absorbing and require a certain amount of skill and physical condition. In the order of human values, the conquest in the field of order of human values the conquest in the field of sports holds a unique place. It is a successful victory or triumph and domination of some over other team mates and friends because sports is comradeship and friendship. The purpose of this study was to determine relationship of selected Coordinative abilities to kicking accuracy in football. 50 inter-college male foot ball players of Chajju Ram Memorial Jat P.G. College Hisar were selected as subjects for this study. The necessary data was collected by administering various Coordinative abilities namely orientation ability, different Ability, Balance, Reaction Ability and for determination kicking ability Harban Singh Dribbling and goal shooting test was administered. To find out significant relationship of four Coordinative abilities to kicking accuracy product moment correlation was employed. For testing hypothesis the level significant was set at .05. There was significant relationship between kicking accuracy and Coordinative abilities of Football players as the calculated value of orientation ability (0.29), Differentiation ability (0.29) and Balance Ability (0.24) was greater than the tabulated value (0.23) at 0.5 level of confidence.