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playing skills. Skillful technique results from careful and constant individual as well
as team practice which adds enjoyment of the game to both players and spectators. The
success in field hockey depends on understanding among the team players.
According to Whitakar In every tactical move in hockey one depends on team
work and the individual skills such as good pushing, hitting, dribbling, stopping the
ball, controlling the ball, anticipating the ball and keeping eyes on the ball and moving
players. Tactics will succeed only through mastery on individual fundamental skills
and with players thinking as a team.

METHODOLOGY
The purpose of this study was to find out the effect of sand training on selected
physical fitness variables among novice men hockey players. To achieve the purpose
of these study 30 Hockey players from Madhuri Bai Deshmukh Sharirik Shikshan
Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur University, Nagpur were selected. The subjects were randomly
selected among the players who represented the College at inter College level
tournaments. The subjects were in the age group of 19 to 25. The subjects were given
training programme for three days per week for six weeks. Equivalent Group design
pre and post test research design was followed by the investigator. The group is divided
into control group (15 players) and experimental group (15 players).In this study the
investigator measured the selected physical fitness variables such as balance and speed
of the College Hockey players through Henry Field Hockey Test before and after the
six weeks of sand training on selected physical fitness variables. The control group
does not given any treatment. The obtained data were subjected to statistical treatment
using ‘t’ test. In all cases 0.05 levels was fixed to test the hypothesis of this study.

RESULTS
TABLE I
TABLE SHOWING DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS AND OBTAINED
‘T’ VALUE ON BALANCE OF HOCKEY PLAYERS DUE TO SAND
TRAINING.

Test Mean MD SD ‘t'

Pre 67.34
-0.44 0.47 5.08*

Post 76.90

Required table value Df (2, 28), 2.048
Significant at 0.05 level
The results presented in Table I showed that the pre test mean value of selected
physical fitness variables(M: 67.34) was improved to 76.90 after six weeks sand
training with mean difference of 0.44.The obtained’ value of 5.08 was greater than the
required’ value of 2.048. Hence, it was proved that there was significant improvement
on balance among Hockey players due to sand training.

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