Many young adults are involved in playing different types of outdoor sports recreationally, namely being cricket, football, basketball, volleyball, badminton, tennis and many more. As we know that playing any kind of sport needs speed, strength, accuracy and skill, which are all the components of agility. Agility is nothing but the ability to do movements quickly or change directions fast and complete the task with skill and perfection. This study focused on evaluating and comparing agility of two outdoor sports which are basketball and volleyball. Both these sports are proved to have a need of more agility in trained players but do the recreational players have similar agility are not known, this study intended to evaluate and compare the agility of recreational volleyball and basketball players who had no professional training of the specific sport. This comparative study was conducted on recreational volleyball and basketball male players, Belagavi, Karnataka. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 16.0. Descriptive statistics including mean and standard deviation were used to analyse the data. T-test was used to compare the mean of both the groups. The study concluded that the volleyball players in higher age group had more agility than the lesser aged volleyball players, the basketball players had uniformity throughout the age group in all the players included in the study. There was slightly significant difference between the agility of volleyball and basketball players where the basketball players had more agility than the volleyball players. Authors in the future can consider this study for reference and can make a specific agility training protocol for the recreational volleyball and basketball players.
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