An Assessment and Comparison of Anthropometrical Variable (Hand Length) at Different Level of Basketball Players

Athletes for superior performance in any sports are selected on the basis of his physical structure and body size, which has proved to be appropriate for high performance in the given sports. After and intensive study of anthropometric measures of Olympic athletes, Greasy, Levine and Lindsay carter concluded that level of performance in a particular event demand a particular time of body size and shape, other aspect being similar, they established high relationship between structure of an athlete and the specific task (event)in which he excelled. Anthropometrics measurements were control concerns of the first phase of the scientific area of measurements which has been began in the 1860‘s current interest in anthropometrics measurements focus in three areas girth measure body type and body composition. The asses of such measures include classification, prediction of growth patterns and prediction of success in motor activities as well as assessment of ability. Subject where instructed to hand on the table with Palm facing upward and fingers close with wrist Extension and elbow flexion in relaxed position the hand length was taken with flexible Steel tape from the base of the thumb to the tip of the middle finger.

The subjects for this study were 20 (Twenty) male Basketball players from different University those who participated in intercollegiate and inter University championship. Besides it‘s the member of national coaching camps were also constitute the sample.

• Hand length

Mean and standard deviation was used to compare selected physical variables at three different levels i.e. Intercollegiate, Interuniversity and National Analysis of variance was used in order to test the hypothesis level of significance was set at 0.05.

The data was analyzed by ANOVA to investigate physiological profile at different level of Basketball Players.

way analysis of variance (ANOVA) for the Hand Length variable of sixty basketball players from India have been presented in table no. 1 to 2.

it is evident from table - 1 that mean and standard deviation scores of Intercollegiate, Interuniversity and National basketball players in relation to Hand Length has been found 19.0250, 19.0250 and, 19.2500 & .80255, .80255 and, .93892 respectively.

Table- 2 revealed that there was significant difference was found among Basketball players from India in relation to Hand Length, as obtained F-ratio was .467, which was higher than the tabulated value 5.01, required for F-ratio to be significant at 0.05 level with (2, 57) degree of freedom. Since the one way analysis of variance was found significant in relation to Hand Length, the LSD test was applied to find out the differences of the paired means among Intercollegiate, Interuniversity and National basketball Players of India

Table- 3 revealed that there was significant difference between in Intercollegiate and Interuniversity; was higher than the Mean Difference value and there was significant difference among Intercollegiate, Interuniversity and National basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length. The graphical representation of means among Intercollegiate, Interuniversity and National basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length has been presented in figure No.1

The graphical representation of means among Intercollegiate, Interuniversity and National basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length has been presented in figure No.1

The findings of the study revealed that insignificant difference was found among Intercollegiate, inter University championship and national coaching camp basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length. Further, graphical picture represents that national coaching camp basketball Players have high mean value in comparison to inter University championship and intercollegiate basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length.

On the basis of the findings of the study, the following conclusions are drawn: 1. Insignificant difference was found among Intercollegiate; inter University championship and national coaching camp basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length. 2. National coaching camp basketball Players possessed greater / higher Hand Length in comparison to Intercollegiate and inters University championship basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length.

difference was found between Intercollegiate and inter University championship; Intercollegiate, and national coaching camp basketball Players & inter University championship and national coaching camp basketball Players whereas and observed sequence of performance was found national coaching camp > Intercollegiate and inter University championship basketball Players of India in relation to Hand Length.

Alfonso L. Garay, Louis Levine and Y.E. Lindsay Carter (1974). Genetic and Anthropological Studies of Olympic Athletes (New York: Academic Press), p: 73. Alten Philips and James E. Hamok (1979). Measurement and Evaluation in Physical Education. (New York: John Willey & Sons.), p. 223.

Assistant Professor, LNIPE, NERC, Guwahati, Assam