• B.RAMESHPANDIAN
• S.T.N.RAJESWARAN

Abstract: Whatever may be the nature of sports, visual skills are the basic requirements for the players invariably. In sport, players with excellent visual skills can able to process the information and respond to what they see faster and better. In badminton, the moment, the player serve the ball, opponent player must evaluate the ball’s trajectory and speed to clear successfully. All these actions would occur within a split of second. Here, the depth perception plays a very crucial role. Besides in considering the other situations such as smash and clear in addition to depth perception to execute the visual skills, the individual needs sufficient amount of balance. Thus, the present study was framed to study the effect of visual skills training on select visual skills of depth perception and ability of static and dynamic balance among the badminton players at school level. Samples: As samples (N=129), students studying in schools who were the participants of inter- school competitions at primary level were selected. The age group of was fixed in the range of 12 to 14. Depth perception and ability of balance namely, static and dynamic were selected as variables for this study to study the effect of visual skills training. Experimental design: Pre-post random experiment group design was used as experimental design in this study. By assessing the performance on overall playing ability samples (N=129), 64 samples exists in the range 3.5 to 5 on the performance of overall playing abilities and 30 samples were further screened and randomly assigned into two groups equally. Thus each group consists of 15 subjects. Group-1 named as Visual Skills Training (VST) and Group -2 named as Traditional Training (TT). Following this, samples of experimental group-I was treated with visual skills training and experimental group – 2 treated with traditional training alone. The collected data from pre- test and post-test were tested with paired t- test and analysis of covariance, so as to test the individualized effects and comparative effects of Visual skills training and traditional training alone on select abilities of balance (static and dynamic) and depth perception. To test the significance of the results derived, 0.05 level was chosen as level of significance. The results of the study confirmed the effect of visual skills training positively on visual abilities of depth perception and ability of balance such as static and dynamic.

Words:Visual ability, Visual skill, Depth perception, Balance, Visual attention, Sensory system

"Effect of Visual Skills Training on Abilities of Balance and Depth Perception among the Players of Badminton ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no.e428-e435, August-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108539.pdf

"Effect of Visual Skills Training on Abilities of Balance and Depth Perception among the Players of Badminton ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 8, page no. ppe428-e435, August-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2108539.pdf