PREDICTION OF KINANTHROPOMETRIC CHARACTERISTICS OF HANDBALL PLAYERS IN RELATION TO THEIR PLAYING POSITION

Abstract

The present was designed to determine the Prediction of Kinanthropometric Characteristics of Handball Players in Relation to Their Playing Position. For this purpose all the seven playing positions of handball team were assessed. Handball players were selected as subjects for the study the study was confined to A total of two hundred eighty (N=280 which includes n=40 from each playing position i.e. goal keepers, left backs, centre backs, right backs, left wingers, right wingers and pivot players respectively) male handball players were selected as subjects. All players were confined to All India Inter University Championship and Senior National level Handball Championship only. kinanthropometric characteristics variables and the tests were selected for the purpose of the study which is presented in the following Kinanthropometric characteristics Height, Weight, Biceps Skin fold, Triceps Skin fold, Sub-scapular Skinfold, Supra- Spinal Skin fold, and Calf Skinfold. The random sampling technique was used to select the required sample. In order to find out the relationship among the kinanthropometric characteristics with playing performance, the Pearson’s Product Moment correlation Technique was employed. The level of significance to test the hypothesis was set at 0.05 level. All the statistical procedures were performed by the statistical computer software SPSS (Version 16). Results of the study explicated statistically that there was showed significant relationship with playing performance of different playing positions of hand ball players height, weight, biceps skin fold, triceps skin fold, sub-scapular skin fold, supra spinal skin fold, calf skin fold