Influence of Mallakhamb Practices and Silambam Practices on Speed and Flexibility among U-19 Female Kho-Kho Players

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to find out the Influence of Mallakhamb practices and Silambam practices on speed and flexibility among u-19 female Kho-Kho players. In order to achieve the purpose of the study forty five female district level Kho-Kho players, were randomly selected from Dindugal city schools and they were equally divided in to three groups of fifteen each as experimental group-I, experimental group-II and control group. The experimental groups and control group undergone normal routine Kho-Kho practices and in addition the experimental group-I underwent Mallakhamb practices and experimental group-II underwent Silambam practices for one hour in the morning sessions. The control group was not given any special training. The period of training was eight weeks in a schedule of weekly three days for alternate days. The data were collected on the selected dependent variables before and after the training period. The collected the data were statistically analyzed by using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and Scheffe’s post hoc test. To test the significance .05 level of confidence was fixed. Based on the results the study it was concluded that the Mallakhamb practices and Silambam practices were significantly improved the speed and flexibility among district level Kho-Kho players.