Relationship of coordinative ability and goalkeeping ability among college level handballgoalkeepers

The purpose of the study was to investigate the relationship of Coordinative ability and goalkeeping ability among college level handball goalkeepers. Twenty five handball goalkeepers the subjects selected were the students of the R B Gothi College for Women, Redhills and Arts & Science College Students. The necessary data for analyzing the relationship was collected by administrating various coordinative ability tests as suggested by Peter Hirtz. Mainly five selected coordinative abilities namely Orientation ability, Reaction ability, Balance abilityand Rhythm ability were taken for this study. Apart from coordinative abilities, a Goalkeeping ability test was also conducted by the scholar and according to the level of performance each player out of 25 subjects were assigned the scored out of 25. Further the data were analyzed to find out the significant relationship between these abilities and Goalkeeping performance. Co-efficient of correlation (Statistical Technique) was used employed to analyze the relationship and the level of significance was set at 0.05 levels for testing the hypothesis.