Study on motor educability of district and state level football players

Abstract

A study using a sample of Forty healthy, football (N = 40) players participated in the assessment of Motor Educability. All the subjects, after having been informed about the objective and protocol of the study, gave their consent and volunteered to participate in this study. The subjects were purposively divided into two groups of 20 each with reference to their level of performance:- Group: N1=20; District level and Group: N2=20; State level. To measure Motor Educability of samples Metheny Johnson Motor Educability test was used. Convenience sampling (also known as availability sampling) is a specific type of non-probability sampling method that relies on data collection from population members who are conveniently available to participate in study were utilized for the purpose of this study. Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS for Windows, version 20.0. Data were for analyzing differences of means. A p value ≤ 0.05 was taken statistically significant. It has been observed that State level Football Players have demonstrated significantly better on Front Roll, Back Roll, Jumping Half Turn and Jumping Full Turn than District level Football Players.