COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RISK TAKING ABILITY AMONG ANCIENT AND MODERN MARTIAL ARTS PLAYERS

Mrs. Deepshikha Raghav and Dr. Usha Tiwari

Abstract

Several forms of self-defense techniques had been practiced in the past and many new forms has been practiced today around the world.  Most of the such arts known as ‘Martial Arts’ taught self-defense primarily, while some of the martial arts teaches you to escape from gun or knife. Judo and Karate has been widely practiced today and Kallaripttayu is known as alive form of ancient martial arts and practiced today in Kerala and other southern part of India. The purpose of the research it to compare risk taking ability among ancient and modern martial arts players. 100 payers from each martial art form (Ancient and Modern) had been selected randomly form the entire population to collect data from them. Statistical analysis has performed using 2 tailed independent ‘t’ test. Results showed that risk raking ability among both martial arts groups was identical. [t (99) = 0.177, p-value= 1.29, Sig. (2-tailed) 0.05 level of significance] Conclusion: There was not any difference found in the ability of taking risk among Ancient and Modern Martial art players.

Keywords: Risk Taking Ability, Ancient and Modern Martial Art.