IMPACT OF HAND-EYE COORDINATION AND SHOULDER STRENGTH ON VOLLEYBALL SERVING ABILITY

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The purpose of the study was find out the Impact of hand-eye coordination and shoulder strength on volleyball serving ability. Thirty men volleyball players were selected from Tamil Nadu Physical Education and Sports University, Chennai were selected randomly as subjects. The age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 25 years. The subjects were selected single random group design. College level men volleyball players were randomly selected (N=30) and measured their hand-eye coordination, shoulder strength and volleyball serving ability. The dependent variable namely volleyball serving ability measured by North Carolina State University Volleyball Service Test. The independent variables namely Hand-eye coordination measured by Alternate Hand Wall Toss test and Shoulder Strength Measured by Push-Up test. The data were collected from each subject statistically analyzed by using mean and standard deviation for the dependent and independent variables were calculated separately and data were analyzed to find out the relationship within the independent variables using Pearson Coefficient of Correlation to find out whether the shoulder strength and volleyball serving ability had any influence on volleyball serving ability of college men volleyball players. It was found that there was significant improvement on volleyball serving ability variables.