2025, Vol. 12, Issue 5, Part F

The present study aimed to examine the effectiveness of structured specific skill training programs on game-specific performance variables in school basketball players. Methodology: To achieve this purpose, forty (N = 40) school basketball players were selected from Chavara Vidhya Bhavan Matriculation Higher Secondary School and Sri Ragavendra Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The subjects’ ages ranged from 14 to 17 years. The forty subjects were divided into three groups, each consisting of fifteen (n = 15) participants: Experimental Group I, which underwent the Specific Skill Training Program (SSTP), and Control Group III, whose members did not participate in any training other than their routine activities. The experimental group participated in the Specific Skill Training Program four alternate days per week for a period of twelve weeks. Results: Data collected from the three groups before and after the training period were statistically analyzed using a dependent t-test. The mean gains recorded by the various groups in the pre-test and post-test were tested for significance using a paired t-test to determine whether the training program produced significant improvements in the selected variables after twelve weeks. The level of significance was set at 0.05. The results indicated that the experimental group showed significant improvement in all measured variables at the end of the twelve-week training period. Conclusion: The experimental group demonstrated a highly significant difference compared with the control group. It was concluded that the Specific Skill Training Program (SSTP) effectively enhances skill performance variables in school basketball players.