The Relationship Between Agility And Related Physical Abilities In Chinese And American College Athletes

By comparison of the difference of agility and related fitness of Chinese and American college student-athlete, we can know about more the traits of agility and the differences of agility training in idea, methods, contents, organization between Chinese and the US. By that, it will help us to improve agility training. We gain the following results through research.1, Based on the former the norm of agility, we define agility as " agility is the ability that athlete quickly and effectively change the speed and direction of movement and action according to stimulation during the process of movement." In theory, the view of sensitive period of agility training is prevail in China, but American scholar think athlete should have agility training in any period. In practical, Chinese scholar prefer to provide whole opinion, but American scholar emphasis on the specific action of agility. In research, Chinese scholar like to prove a certain training to be effective for agility, but American prefer to research the else fitness that are related to agility.2. In this study, we find there are not significant relationship between else fitness and agility except for10m acceleration run of Chinese college women student-athlete and dynamic balance of American college man student-athlete. There are some relationship between height, weight, sigle leg jump, quickness and agility, but they do not show significant relationship. Taking one with another, agility is a independent fitness in relation to another fitness. Therefore we adopt special ways to train athlete’s agility instead of with other fitness training.4. We think the reason why there are some difference between Chinese and American college student-athlete in agility is agility but not other fitness. So we should have special agility training. The methods, skills, contents, research, degree of importance and organization of agility training cause Chinese college student-athlete’s agility that are not competitive. 5. We propose agility training should follow the principles of systematicness, comprehensiveness, accurateness, progress step by step, aim and combined sports.6. According to the traits of agility, assistant equipment for agility training, and current methods of agility training in the US, we think agility training should include given aim training, change aim training, and combined training. And given aim training include given movement route, changing pattern of action and limits of movements.