Motor Fitness of Different Form of Karate Players: A Comparative Study

Many factors, like motor abilities as well as environmental situations, are regarded as having an interacting influence on an individual's selection of achievements in various physical activities.The study's goal was to determine and compare the kata and kumite of karate players' motor fitness in terms of agility and response times.A total number of 60 male karate players classified into two groups (30 Kumite players and 30 Kata players) were selected as subjects from different karate clubs of South 24 Parganas (Kolkata); the age range was 12 -14 years.In this research, agility and reaction time variables were measured by standard procedures, and SPSS software was used for analysis of data.One-way mean, standard deviation, and "t" ratio statistics were used to find out the significant difference among the groups as well as to observe which group was different from the other groups.The result of the study revealed that there was a significant difference observed in karate players in all the selected variables.