Journal of Sports and Motor Development and Learning
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Comparison of the Effect of Sports Vision Training with and without Inline Hockey Specific Context on the Speed and Whole Body Reaction Time of Inline Hockey Players

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Authors

Hossein Heydari 1
Rokhsareh Badami 2
Zohreh Meshkati 2

1 Department of Motor Behavior , Sport Sciens Faculty , Islamic Azad University. Branch of Isfahan(Khorasgan ) Isfahan , Iran

2 Associate Professor of motor behavior, Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22059/jsmdl.2022.333255.1618
Abstract
Abstract

Introduction and Purpose: the purpose of the current study was to examine the comparison of the effect of sports vision training with and without inline hockey specific context on the speed and whole body reaction time of inline hockey players.

Methods: In this semi experimental study, which was performed with a pre-test-post-test design with a one- and four-week follow-up period, 60 novice male hockey players with an age range of 15 to For 20 years, they were accessibility selected and randomly divided into three groups: sports vision training with hockey specific context, sports vision training without hockey specific context and hockey specific context training. In the pre-test phase, the participants performed the desired tests (speed and whole body reaction time). The intervention phase lasted for nine weeks and 2 sessions per week and each session lasted 90 minutes, in which the groups did the relevant exercises. In the post-test phase, which was performed exactly after the last training session, and in the follow-up phase, which was performed after one and four weeks of non-training, the participants performed the desired tests as in the pre-test phase. Data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance.

Results: The results showed that sports vision exercises with and without hockey specific context and hockey specific context exercises have a significant effect on improving speed and whole body reaction time of inline hockey players. Other results indicated that superiority (greater effect size) of sports vision exercises with hockey specific context compared to other exercises.

Keywords

gaze training
sports vision
speed
whole body reaction time
inline hocky
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Journal of Sports and Motor Development and Learning
Volume 14, Issue 1
Spring 2022
Pages 89-110

  • Receive Date 13 December 2021
  • Revise Date 28 February 2022
  • Accept Date 06 March 2022

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