Borneo Ultimate Frisbee Team: Agility and Speed in Relation with Playing Position

Authors

  • Nur Khairunisa Abu Talip Faculty of Sports Science and Recreation, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (UiTM)
  • Datu Md Muallim Datu Moksan
  • Kristen Chou

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33736/jbk.1498.2019

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to investigate a arising Borneo Frisbee team named Ultras on agility and speed performance in relation to the playing position of Ultimate Frisbee players. Sixteen (N=16) athletes (8 handlers and 8 cutters) participated in the present study, and the age ranged between 19 to 24 years old. Each athlete was tested with the 505 agility test and 30-meter sprint test to measure agility and speed. The level of significance was set at .05 (p<.05). The obtained data was analysed using SPSS 22.0. Independent Sample T-Test was employed to compare the differences in agility and speed between handlers and cutters. Results showed that there is no significance difference in agility between handlers and cutters (playing position) (p=.192) and no significant difference in speed between handlers and cutters (playing positions) (p=.522). The mean of the results showed that handlers were approximately 14.16% more agile than cutters, while cutters were approximately 49.37% faster in horizontal speed than handlers.

Keywords: Ultimate Frisbee, agility, speed, playing position, handlers, cutters.

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Published

2019-11-13

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Abu Talip, N. K., Datu Md Muallim Datu Moksan, & Kristen Chou. (2019). Borneo Ultimate Frisbee Team: Agility and Speed in Relation with Playing Position. Journal of Borneo-Kalimantan, 5(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.33736/jbk.1498.2019