Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to measure the times of two kinds of foot responses, namely responses with and without a choice of soccer players and non athletes in order to compare the results between the two groups. The soccer player group consisted of twenty national leveled soccer players while the non athletic group consisted of twenty volunteer university students. Both groups were nearly the same in the average age, and weight. The foot response time was measured by an electronic timer which used a visual signal. Two types of foot response time were tested separately: 1. The response time of either foot as determined before the test. 2. The response time of either foot as determined by the visual signal. The Arithmetical means and Standard deviations of all response times of both groups were calculated and compared statistically. The results were as follows : 1. The Arithmetic mean and Standard deviation of the response time of the right foot without a choice of the soccer players were 0.392, and 0.033 ; while that of the non-athletes were 0.443, and 0.050. 2. The Arithmetic mean and Standard deviation of the response time of the left foot without a choice of the soccer players were 0.419, and 0.043 ; while that of the non-athletes were 0.461, and 0.049. 3. The Arithmetic mean and Standard deviation of the response time (with choice) of the soccer players were 0.485, and 0.23 ; while that of the non-athletes were 0.549, and 0.051. 4. There was significant difference of each type of response time between the two groups at the level of .01. 5. The time needed for making a decision (i.e., the response time without choice subtracted from the response time with choices) of the soccer player group was less than the non-athlete group, but this decision making time was not statistically significant.