Open AccessStudy on improving coordination skills in women’s basketball game
Author(s) -
Manuela Epure,
Dana Bădău
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
discobolul
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2286-3702
pISSN - 1454-3907
DOI - 10.35189/dpeskj.2021.60.2.2
Subject(s) - basketball , jumping , test (biology) , throwing , motor skill , motor coordination , psychology , eye–hand coordination , applied psychology , physical therapy , engineering , physical medicine and rehabilitation , simulation , developmental psychology , aeronautics , medicine , physiology , paleontology , archaeology , neuroscience , psychiatry , biology , history
The purpose of this research is to highlight the effectiveness of the proposed motor programme for the improvement of coordination skills in female basketball players aged 13-15 years. The implementation of a motor programme focused on the development of coordination skills leads to their improvement and could have a significant impact on future results/performance. The participants in this study were 68 female basketballplayers who were divided into two groups, an experimental group (n = 36) and a control group (n = 32). The following tests were applied to assess the development level of their coordination skills: Tapping test, Rope jumping test, Alternate hand wall toss test, Square test and Kinaesthetic test. Both groups were assessed at the beginning of the competition season and at the end of the 6 months of specific motor programme. The programme proposed and applied to the experimental group consisted of: slalom circuits, elastic rope jumping, static and dynamic balance exercises, eye-hand, hand-foot and eye-foot coordination exercises, throwing and catching objects and rhythm-building exercises. The following research methods were used: literature review, experiment method, test method, mathematical and statistical method, graphical method. The results of the study showed that the experimental group recorded improved values in the final test compared to the results obtained by the control group. In conclusion, the proposed motor programme has proven its effectiveness as regards the improvement of coordination skills in female basketball players aged 13-15 years.