ENHANCING SKILL PERFORMANCE VARIABLES AMONG SCHOOL LEVEL BASKETBALL PLAYERS THROUGH SPECIFIC DRILLS (A PILOT STUDY)

Abstract

Basketball is one of the quickest games, and to perform each skill at the desired or necessary level, high level conditioning, coordination, and technical and tactical potential are vital. A programmed called particular skill training comprises performance training created expressly to improve athletic performance. Training programmed for improving game performance may target skills like dribbling, passing, shooting, and other game-specific skills, as well as speed, power, endurance, flexibility, mobility, and agility. The idea of the study was to find out the enhancing skill performance variables among school level basketball players through specific drills. To achieve the purpose of the study, five school level basketball players would be randomly selected from National Sports School, Coimbatore district and their age ranged between 14 and 17 year boys. Single group design was used. All skill performance variables were assessed by standard tests; dribbling by zig zag dribble, passing by throw accuracy and shooting by speed goal shoot test through john basketball test. Specific drills pilot study group (n = 5) would be undergone for a period of four weeks. The results revealed that there was a significant difference found on the criterion variables. The difference was found due to specific drills given to the experimental group on dribbling, shooting and passing of school level basketball players.