Comparison Of Hand Reaction Ability Among The Different Racket Game Players

Abstract

The researchers are hoping to learn how the various racket game players' hand response times compare. The participants in this research were 45 male athletes from Manipur who had competed in competitions at the state level or above. Of them, 15 were picked from table tennis, 15 from badminton, and 15 from tennis. The participants' ages varied from seventeen to twentyfive. Readings were recorded to the nearest hundredth of a second using the Whole-Body Reaction Type IV (Takei Kiki Kogyo Co. Ltd) to get the relevant data. Data features and statistically significant variations in hand response skill among the various racket game players were determined using descriptive and analysis of variance (ANOVA) approaches. After identifying statistically significant differences between the groups, we used Scheffe's approach to find the paired mean differences between them, as a post hoc test. We used a 0.05 threshold of significance. With a computed F-value of 3.59 and a tabulated F-value of 3.22 at a 0.05 level of confidence (P<0.05), the study's results show that there are substantial mean differences in hand response skill across the various racket game players. This was determined using analysis of variance (ANOVA). Moreover, when comparing table tennis and tennis using a paired mean test, there was a significant difference in hand response ability, with a mean difference of 0.14 and a p-value less than 0.05, respectively. Nevertheless, there were notable disparities in hand reaction ability among table tennis, badminton, and tennis players; however, these differences were not statistically significant (mean differences of 0.06 for badminton and 0.08 for tennis) (P>0.05). Additionally, when comparing table tennis players to tennis players using a paired mean comparison post hoc test, a statistically significant difference in hand response ability was found. On the other hand, players of badminton and tennis, as well as table tennis and badminton, did not vary significantly on average in their hand response skills.