Effects of the agility training program with integration of Thai Traditional plays on agility development of football players between the age of 10-12 years old
Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to develop and compare the agility training program with Thai traditional plays, the agility training program with integration of Thai traditional plays and the regular agility training program on agility development of soccer players between the ages 10 - 12 years old. Thirty male football players of Narathorn School were purposively selected to be the subjects in this study. They were divided into three groups, each group of ten players. Experimental group no.1 were the agility training program with Thai traditional plays, experimental group no.2 were the agility training program with integration of Thai traditional plays and experimental group no.3 was the regular agility training program. All groups were trained with football training program. The courses of agility training supplementary program were trained for three days per week. The total duration of training was eight week. All subjects participated in two agility tests: regular agility by Illinois test run - agility and football agility skill by Wargner dribbling test before experiment, after the fourth and eighth weeks. The obtained data were analyzed in terms of means and standard deviations, One - way analysis of variance, One-way analysis of variance with repeated measures and multiple comparison by Tukey - a were also employed for statistical significant at the .01 level. The results were as follows: 1.The agility training program with Thai traditional plays and the agility training program with integration of Thai traditional plays were validated between 0.8 - 1.0 and the reliability were .845 and .873 which resulting in the agility training program with Thai traditional plays and the agility training program with integration of Thai traditional plays were able to be used to train the athletes. 2.The comparison of the agility training program between groups showed that means of Illinois test run - agility after eight weeks of experiment, ability in the experimental group no.2 (integration of Thai traditional plays) were significantly better than the experimental group no.3 (the regular agility training program) at the .01 level. 3.The comparison of the agility training program within groups showed that agility by Illinois test run - agility after four weeks and eight weeks of all groups were significantly better than before experiment. Results of Wargner dribbling test of the experimental group no.2 (integration of Thai traditional plays) and the experimental group no.2 were significantly better than before experiment at the .01 level. The agility training program with integration of Thai traditional plays on regular agility and football agility skill development of soccer players between the ages of 10 - 12 years old better than the regular agility training program