Comparative study of kinesthetic perception of male and female badminton player

The aim of the study was to compare the kinesthetic perception of male and female badminton players. Thirty male and female badminton players were selected as a subject. Age of the subjects ranged from 18 to 25 years. All of them were participating in the regular activity classes in accordance with the requirements of the inter-college competition of Panjab University, Chandigarh. Kinesthetic perception was considered as the parameter of this study and this is measured by kinesthetic obstacles test (Johnson, Barry L. & Nelson, Jackson k, 1988). The scores of the subjects on the kinesthetic obstacle test were used as the criterion measure for the study. In order to analyse, the data, t-ratio was used to compare the means of different groups. The level of significance was set at .05. The result of the data indicated that there was no significant difference between male and female badminton players.