The effects of the 12-week-period basic badminton education trainings on 9 to 12 year-old kids? motoric features and the reaction time

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effects of 12-week- period basic badminton education on kids? (who have just began taking the badminton exercises) some motoric features and the reaction time.For this survey, 30 students, between 9-12 age 11,33 ± 1,145 , height 1,48 ± 0,7714 cm, weight 39,16 ± 7,04261kg, attending on Malatya Merkez TOKİ Primary School and volunteer for this investigation are chosen randomly. Only one primary school is used in order to obtain convenience for these trainings. The former 30-student-group is randomly divided into two groups that are formed by 15 students. The first group is formed by the students who regularly do exercises ? that is to say the Badminton Basic Education Training Group (BG). A 12-week period badminton basic education training program is applied to the Badminton Basic Education Training Group (BG). The second group is control group (CG) on the other hand; the students that do not do exercises didn?t attend to regularly any activities. Some of the motoric features of these groups: that is to say the measurements of the claw force, jump (vertical-horizontal jump), the reaction time and the flexibility of the spin and also the measurements of the height and weight of the groups are saved at the beginning and end of the 12-week-period.In these surveys independent sample t-test (in the SPSS 13.0 packet program) is used for the statistical analysis of the differences between groups and Paired-Samples t-test is applied for intra group differences. In all tests the signifance level is accepted to be p<0.05, and the reliability gap is accepted to be 95%.The results of the statistical analyses: there is a meaningful difference in the tests that are applied to Badminton Training Group (BG) and the Control Group (CG), There is a meaningful difference for the advantage of the Badminton Training Group when we consider the claw force, vertical jump , horizontal jump , the flexibility of the spine and the parameters of the dominant hand visual reaction time test. And when we consider the anthropometric measurements that are applied to the Badminton Training Group and the group that doesn?t deal with sport, meaningful differences in age, height and weight measurements aren?t identified. A meaningful difference between the first measurements and the last measurements of the Badminton Training Group is noticed. On the other hand, there is not a meaningful difference between the first and the last measurements of the control group.As a consequence, we can emphasize the employability of the badminton training program that can be used for developing the motoric features of the kids and the reaction time.Key Words: Badminton, Motoric Features, Sport, Training, the Reaction Time