Impact of Kalari Gymnastics Trainings on Agility and Speed of College Men

Abstract :

To achieve the purpose of the present study (N=45) college men players were randomly selected from Sri Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya maruthi college of physical education and Vivekananda University faculty of general and adapted physical education and yoga, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. They were assigned to three groups namely experimental group-I with (n=15) who were given kalari training for 12 weeks 5 days a week and other group-II with (n=15) who were given gymnastics training and group –III acted as control group. The experimental group was tested on agility and speed. The selected criterion variable was agility measured with 6×10 shuttle run and speed was measured with 50 m dash. The prior and after test data were collected and treated with ancova. If obtained ‘F’ ratio was significant scheffe’s post test was used to find out paired mean difference. The level of confidence was fixed at 0.05. The study results showed that the kalari training group significantly increased agility and speed due to kalaripayatu training programme. The control group did not improve the selected criterion variables.

Author Name : M.Prabu

Keywords: Kalaripayatu Training, Gymnastic Training, Agility, Flexibility.


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