Reliability of a Reactive Agility Test for Youth Volleyball Players

Lima Ricardo (), Rico-González Markel, Pereira Joel, Caleiro Francisco and Clemente Filipe
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Lima Ricardo: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, Portugal
Rico-González Markel: University of the Basque Country, Department of Physical Education and Sport, UPV-EHU, Spain
Pereira Joel: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, Portugal
Caleiro Francisco: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, Portugal
Clemente Filipe: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Escola Superior Desporto e Lazer, Rua Escola Industrial e Comercial de Nun’Álvares, Portugal

Polish Journal of Sport and Tourism, 2021, vol. 28, issue 1, 8-12

Abstract: Introduction. This was a cross-sectional study aiming to test the reliability of a new reactive agility test designed for youth volleyball players to improve both reaction time and hand-eye coordination. Material and methods. Twenty-four youth volleyball athletes (15 girls and 9 boys) were recruited to participate in this study (age: 11.58 ± 2.20 years old). This study used a FitLight Trainer (FITLIGHT Sport Corp., Ontario, Canada), a wireless system using interconnected light-powered sensors, to measure reaction time and hand-eye coordination. The subjects performed the hand-eye coordination test twice, exactly one week apart, for 30 seconds, with three trials performed for each test. Repeated measures ANOVA was used to test the variation of the six trials performed during the two sessions. Results. The analysis comparing the sessions revealed significantly longer reaction time in session 1 than in session 2 (mean difference: 47.85 [95% CI: 10.86 to 84.84]; p

Keywords: reproducibility; reactive agility; precision; light stimulus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.2478/pjst-2021-0002

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