“Correlation Of Hand Grip Strength And Shoulder Strength With Smashing Accuracy In Female Badminton Players”

Abstract

Background: Badminton is a fast-paced activity and is regarded as the quickest of the racquet sports. Various components of fitness like speed, agility, flexibility, endurance, and power play an important role in an athlete’s performance, moreover grip strength and shoulder strength are important components that are utilized for a better smash performance.

Aim: The main aim of the study was to observe the relationship between hand grip strength and shoulder strength on the accuracy of smash in collegiate female badminton players.

Materials and Methods: A observational study design was conducted on eight four female collegiate badminton players and were included according to inclusion criteria i.e., participants were female, aged 18-25 years, playing at least for 2 years. For hand grip strength hand held dynamometer were used. The players performed Medicine ball test to determine their shoulder strength. Players concurrently perform the smash stroke performance test for the smashing accuracy.

Results: To determine the correlation between the variables, we applied the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The result indicates the correlation value for hand grip strength and smashing accuracy is (r-value= -0.07) and correlation value for shoulder strength and smashing accuracy s (r-value= 0.32). This shows that there was a statistically significant (p-value <0.01).

Conclusion: The study concluded that there was weak positive significant correlation between shoulder strength with smashing accuracy and no significance between hand grip strength with smashing accuracy in female collegiate badminton players.