Abstract

The aim of this study is comparative assessment of rapidness of male students who took up Badminton course, with the group who didn’t take up badminton course and the determination of the reasons of possible differences between the two groups at Physical Education and Sport Academy. With that aim, some measurements such as motorik features(velocity, vertical jumping, stepping, attack, static jumping) and some biological features (age, height, kilo) of 28 male students that are in the same class between 19-22 were recorded who took up (n=12) badminton course and who didn’t (n=16) in 2008-2009 academic yearAccording to the measurement results, while there has been statistically, significant differences (p0,05) in terms of the averages of biological age(year), height(cm), kilo(kg), 10 meter(sec.), attack test between the students who voluntarily took the badminton course and who didn’t.