Abstract

The objective of the study is to find out the effect of specific table tennis training on the selected skill performance variables of school boys. For this study, twenty school boys were randomly selected from the S.S.M. Lakshmiammal Matric.Hr.Sec.School. Komarapalayam, Namakkal, Tamilnadu. The selected subjects were considered as only one group. The following criterion variables were selected for the study such as skill performance variables namely, target service and alternate counter. The training period would be the six weeks except Saturday and Sunday of every week. ‘t’ ratio was calculated to find out the significant of the difference between the mean of pre and post tests of the group. The level of significance for the study was chosen as 0.05. It was concluded that the skill performance variables namely target service and alternate counter were significantly improved due to the treatment of specific table tennis training.

Keywords

Table Tennis, Taret Service, Alternate Counter,

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