Author(s): S Arunkumar and Dr. T Radhakrishnan

Abstract:
The purpose of the study was to investigate the impacts of specific drills with vision training on selected motor fitness components among table tennis players. For this study, forty table tennis players were selected from Coimbatore Table Tennis Foundation & Academy and Paddlerz Table Tennis Academy in Coimbatore district, Tamil Nadu. They were divided into two equal groups of twenty subjects each, namely the experimental group and the control group. The selected subjects were under 14 to17 years of age school boys. The experimental group (Group-I) underwent specific drills with vision training three days per week for 8 weeks. The control group (Group-II) did not underwent any special training apart from their regular activities. The following dependent variables were selected for this study: agility, endurance, and core muscle strength. Data on these selected dependent variables were collected both prior to and immediately after the 8-weeks of experimental period as pre-test and post-test, respectively. The data were analyzed using the dependent ’t-test to determine the significant differences among the groups. A confidence level of 0.05 was fixed to test the level of significance, which was considered appropriate. The results of the study showed that the specific drills combined with vision training program led to significant improvement in the selected motor fitness components.

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