Effect of specific drill training programme on skill performances among volleyball players

The purpose of the study was to find out the effect of specific drill training programme on selected skill performances among volleyball players. To achieve the purpose of the study thirty higher secondary school male volleyball players from Thanthai Periyar Higher Secondary School, Karaikal Pondicherry were selected as subjects. The age of the subjects were ranged from 15-17years. They were divided into two equal groups. Each group consists of 15 subjects. Group-I was underwent to specific volleyball fitness training for five days in a week for twelve weeks, Group-II acted as control group (CG). They didn‘t undergo for any specific training programme than the normal routine volleyball game. The Skill performance variable namely passing, service, attacking and blocking were selected as dependent variable and they were was assessed by Brady volleyball test for passing, Service was assessed by Russell Lange volleyball test, Attacking and Blocking were assessed by judges ratings. The data was collected before and after 12 weeks of training. The data was analyzed by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). The level of significance was fixed at 0.05. The findings of the present study have strongly indicate that volleyball specific drill training group have significant effect on selected skill performance variables i.e., passing, service, attacking and blocking ability of high school male volleyball players.