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The purpose of the study is to analyze the running speed and agility abilities among 7-12 aged School Children. To achieve the purpose of the study, two hundred school children were selected (n=200) from Sri Sarada Vidyalaiya Higher Secondary School, Ariyakulam, Little Flower Public School, Gandhi Nagar, Govt. Higher Secondary School, Gankaikondan, Tirunelveli District, Tamil Nadu, India as subject by stratified random sampling and their age ranged between 7 to 12 years. The selected participants were divided following category: area (Rural and Urban), and Gender (Boys and Girls). Member of these groups will consist of healthy school children from Tirunelveli District only. Prior to enrollment in the study, participants were informed of all possible risks involved in this study. The continuous variables selected for this study were running speed and agility abilities namely shuttle run, Stepping sideways over a balance beam, One-Legged Stationary Hop, One-legged Side Hop, One-legged Side Hop and two legged side hop. All the subjects were tested by BOT 2. Static group comparison design was used for this study. A collected data by stratified random sampling were divided into the following category: Area (Rural and Urban) and Gender (Boys and Girls). The collected data were analyzed data by using the independent t-test with the help of SPSS software. Rural and urban school children had significant difference on running speed and agility abilities namely shuttle run, Stepping sideways over a balance beam, One-Legged Stationary Hop, One-legged Side Hop, One-legged Side Hop and two-legged side hop. However, urban school children aged 7-12 years outperformed than rural school children on running speed and agility abilities namely shuttle run, Stepping sideways over a balance beam, One-Legged Stationary Hop, One-legged Side Hop, Onelegged Side Hop and two-legged side hop. The boys & girls school children had significant difference on running speed and agility abilities namely shuttle run, Stepping sideways over a balance beam, One-Legged Stationary Hop, One-legged Side Hop, One-legged Side Hop and two-legged side hop. However, boys school children outperformed than girls school children on running speed and agility abilities namely shuttle run, Stepping sideways over a balance beam, One-Legged Stationary Hop, One-legged Side Hop, One-legged Side Hop and two-legged side hop. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
