Comparative analysis of speed and muscular power between the male raiders and stoppers of circle style kabaddi

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to compare speed ability and muscular power of upper body between the male raiders and stoppers of circle style Kabaddi. With the purposive sampling technique a total two hundred sixteen (103 raiders and 113 stoppers) of circle style Kabaddi were taken as subjects from sixteen teams which were qualified for the league stage or qualified for the semifinal of the inter college tournament of selected universities i.e. PU Chandigarh, Pbi.U Patiala, GNDU Amritsar and KU Kurukshetra during the session of 2.017-18. The results were obtained through the SPSS version 21.0. In this study the overhead medicine ball throw test and 50 m run were used to measure the muscular power of upper body and speed of the players. The study had been analyzed with the help of mean, SD, Levine’s test for equality of variances and the comparison between groups was done with the help of t-test. The study revealed that on the basis of the finding male raiders and stoppers were possessing same degree of muscular power of upper body but male raiders were better in speed ability than stoppers.