Effect of Non-Dominant Arm Exercises on Enhancing the Dynamic Program for Developing Accuracy of Basic Skills of Badminton Student

Abstract

The problem of the study revolves around the fact that most of badminton student at the Karbala University have poor basic skills in badminton despite that they have developed a dynamic program of some for properly studied skills. In this study, the researcher endeavors to activate a dynamic program for some basic skills in badminton through exercises of the non-dominant arm and make use of this phenomenon to transfer the effect of learning to the dominant arm to create the required responses to student badminton players. The goal of the study is to examine the effect of non-dominant arm exercises on enhancing the dynamic program for developing accuracy of basic skills of badminton student players. It is also designed to know how it is better to exercise using one arm or both arms to activate the dynamic program for developing accuracy of basic skills of badminton student players.The researcher used the experimental approach to design two pretest and post-test equivalent groups. This approach is more convenient to the nature of the problem and it helps achieve the goals of the study. The sample of the study represents all the study population, namely, all the 10 players of the Karbala University badminton Team for 2012- 2013. This means the researcher has used this approach for all the study population. By using lottery, the players were divided into two groups, the experimental group and control group. Each group was composed of 5 players. The teaching curriculum started on 10-12-2012 and ended on 25-1-2013. The Curriculum included different exercises in serve and spike using different directions, distances and speed for each exercise. Among the most important conclusions of the study are the following: