Evaluation of SAQ in Elementary School Basketball Players

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  • 小学生バスケットボール選手のSAQ評価
  • ショウガクセイ　バスケットボール　センシュ　ノ　ＳＡＱ　ヒョウカ

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Speed, agility, and quickness (‘SAQ’) are important components in most field and team sports, but  have not been researched extensively in terms of the technical skill of rapidly changing body direction.  To examine the ability of junior athletes to change body direction rapidly and accelerate, we developed  an SAQ evaluation system that requires subjects to change direction in response to a stimulus using  a light and buzzer. The study examined a sample of 52 students from basketball teams in elementary  schools, all females. Their mean±S.D. age was 10.6±1.3 years, height was 141.6±9.9 cm, and weight  was 32.5±7.8 kg. The subject stood at the starting position 10 meters away from the direction indicator  light, and sprinted to the finishing line, 3.5 m away from the starting position in response to the indicator  light. The results showed that 1) the mean sprint time in the eight directions (front, back, right, left,  diagonally forward left and right, and diagonally backward left and right) was 1.89±0.14, 2.09±0.28, 1.86 ±0.26, 1.87±0.19, 1.84±0.2, 1.86±0.22, 2.08±0.34 and 1.99±0.25 s, respectively, 2) SAQ (motion speed)  in the anterior direction was comparable to that in the horizontal direction and was higher than that in  the posterior direction, 3) the 20% of the participants who adopted a basic dynamic posture stance were  faster than those who did not.

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