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The Effect Of Depth Jumping And Rope Jumping On The Vertical Jump Performance Of Junior High Females, Kelly Bissell
The Effect Of Depth Jumping And Rope Jumping On The Vertical Jump Performance Of Junior High Females, Kelly Bissell
Kinesiology, Sport Studies, and Physical Education Master’s Theses
The purpose of this investigation was to determine the effects of depth jumping and rope jumping on vertical jump performance. The investigator used a 3 X 2 factorial design consisting of two treatment groups and one control group. Two hundred forty-one subjects in grades 6, 7, and 8 were pretested on vertical jumping ability using a jump and reach test and randomly assigned to a depth jumping group, a rope jumping group or a control group. The training period for the rope jumping and depth jumping groups consisted of two sessions each week for nine consecutive weeks. In each session ...