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European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science ISSN: 2501 - 1235 ISSN-L: 2501 - 1235 Available on-line at: www.oapub.org/edu Volume 3 │ Issue 12 │ 2017 doi: 10.5281/zenodo.1127771 THE EFFECT OF 8 WEEK TENNIS TECHNICAL TRAINING AND GAMES ON REACTION TIME IN 10-12 YEAR OLD BOYS Mücahit Sarikaya, Muzaffer Selçuki, Y. Gökhan Gencer, H. Bayram Temur, Uğur Öntürk Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Physical Education and Sports High School, Van, Turkey Abstract: The aim of this study is to assess the effect of tennis technique training and games on reaction times of 10-12 years old boys. For this study, 40 subjects who did not perform any physical activity volunteered. Subjects randomly assigned two groups: Experimental group: 20, control group: 20. The experimental group was subjected to 8 week three days a week and 60 minute per session tennis and education with games training program modified according to relevant age group. The control group did not participate any physical activity. Visual, auditory and mix reaction times were measured by Newtest reaction timer. Subjects’ reaction times were measured twice before and after training program. SPSS 22.0 package program was used for analysis of the data obtained from the study. Independent Sample T test was used for comparison between groups, and paired samples t test was analyzed at p <0.05 significance level. As a result of the study, there was no difference in the control group, and after eight weeks of tenement-specific games and technical training, the research group revealed significant changes between auditory, visual and mixed reaction times in both hands. Keywords: tennis, reaction, training 1. Introduction Sport is a social activity which is an important part of human experience that affects societies. Of course, the most important elements that should be found in this activity Copyright © The Author(s). All Rights Reserved. © 2015 – 2017 Open Access Publishing Group 470 Mücahit Sarikaya, Muzaffer Selçuk, Y. Gökhan Gencer, H. Bayram Temur, Uğur Öntürk THE EFFECT OF 8 WEEK TENNIS TECHNICAL TRAINING AND GAMES ON REACTION TIME IN 10-12 YEAR OLD BOYS are children and young people (1). Sports should enter early maturity in the growth of the child (2). Tennis is a sports branch with intensive coordination. Hence, during the learning of tennis-related skills, transfer of knowledge and skills acquired in the past to newly acquired skills can gain importance. At this stage, there are many factors that influence skill acquisition. These are the training method (method), repeat, individual psychological factors, number of sports, transfer factors (3). Transfer differences are the transfer of information acquired during application to another application. It is important to transfer principles to practice in the methods of teaching. Sometimes unnecessary movements can be learned and this can make learning of movements in a skill difficult. For example; a person who has just begun to learn tenacity will learn to hit the tennis ball more accurately than anyone who has reinforced the same skill in the wrong way (3,4). Age, height, sex, body composition, conditional and coordinative characteristics are individual factors affecting skill acquisition (5). For example, the ability to improve some of the skills (coordinative) plays a crucial role. Skill acquisition in the elderly is slower than younger individuals (6). Every person has the ability to move, but the ability to develop this ability varies from person to person (5). The extent of this development determines the quality of the person's senso-motoric structure. Clutter can be used synonymously with coordinating ability. Conditional and coordinative properties, strength, speed, endurance flexibility, agility, coordination, reaction time, orientation, movement sensitivity, rhythm, balance, movement fluency and harmonious formation (3). Physical fitness as well as skill and skill are important in all sports (7, 8, 9). The reaction time is also one of the items of physical fitness. The reaction is defined as rapid traversal of the muscle following neural stimulation. This warning can be visual, auditory or tactile (10). The reaction rate, which is part of the movement spurt, is dependent on the ongoing and neurophysiological properties of a signal, from the onset of a signal to the onset of conscious action (11). The "reaction time", defined as the time elapsed between the beginning of the stimulus and the beginning of the reaction (12, 13), is closely related to the fact that the players who are under the pressure of space, time and opponent have the ability to make quick decisions (14). Many factors have been reported to be influential on the psychological state and decision-making ability of the athletes, and some of them have been reported in many studies that can be developed through training (15-16). Rapid and accurate response to warnings and quick response to both tennis and volleyball branches is a major factor affecting success. European Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science - Volume 3 │ Issue 12 │ 2017 471 Mücahit Sarikaya, Muzaffer Selçuk, Y. Gökhan Gencer, H. Bayram Temur, Uğur Öntürk THE EFFECT OF 8 WEEK TENNIS TECHNICAL TRAINING AND GAMES ON REACTION TIME IN 10-12 YEAR OLD BOYS The purpose of studying this information is to examine the effect of 8-week tennis technical training and games on reaction time in 10-12 year-old boys. 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