Author(s): Dr. Ramesh Naik K and Dr. SG Praveenakumar

Abstract:
The Tug of War International Federation (TWIF) was formed in 1960 and has 25 member nations. Regional and World Championships are staged on a yearly basis. Chak-ka-yer or tug-of-war is one of the oldest traditional team games of Thailand. As time passed bowlers increasingly wanted to raise the level of their arms and eventually, in 1827, something else that is never seen today, round arm bowling, became legal. At a stroke the majority of bowlers switched their style. There remained just one great exponent of underarm to come, William Clarke, the founder of the All England XI. Clarke died in 1856 having continued to play regularly until a couple of years before his death. Motivation is one of the fascinating and important areas in human psychology. Motivation has immense effect on learning. In the absence of motivation either there will be no learning or very little learning. To achieve the purpose of the study necessary data was collected from total 74 subjects of which 37 from Tug of War and 37 from Underarm bowling cricket. The subjects selected were from Traditional tournaments and Local tournament participants Dakshina Kannada, during 2018-19. Their subjects age ranged between 18 to 25 years. To assess the Data on motivation for participation in tug of war and underarm bowling cricket was collected through The 24-item “Sport Motivation Scale”, The answers were scored on a 7 point Likert scale and ranged from 1 (does not correspond at all) and 7 (corresponds exactly). There are total six sub scales in the questionnaire: A motivation, External regulation, Introjected regulation, Identified regulation, Integrated regulation and Intrinsic motivation. The collected data were tabulated for the purpose of analysis. The t-test was used for testing the hypothesis for significance of mean and standard deviation for testing difference in the statistical formula. All the statistical calculation was carried out with the help of SPSS Windows package. The conclusion was that there is significant difference in the psychological background information on sports motivation for participation of tug of war and under arm bowling cricket players competing at traditional, local and open tournaments level. Finally concluded to underarm cricket sports have higher identified motivation than tug of war sports events and Dhakshin Kannada district belonging to tug of war sports have higher integrated regulation than underarm cricket sports events Motivation of other aspects of a motivation, External Regulation, introjected regulation, intrinsic motivation to their well be no significance difference between underarm bowling cricket and tug of war sports participants.

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