The Effect of Practice Order with Dominant and Non-Dominant Hand on Acquisition, Retention and Transfer of Basketball Dribbling Skill

The purpose was to survey the effect of practice order with dominant and non-dominant hand on acquisition, retention and transfer of basketball dribbling skill of the male students at Ferdowsi University. The subjects were 20 students of General Physical Education (19-24) that did not have any experiences in basketball and their dominant hand was right. They randomly selected and equally assigned to two groups. Subjects practiced in the program for 4 weeks, 2 times a week and 45 minutes per session. Group A practiced with their dominant right hand for the first four sessions and then switched to their left hand for the second four sessions. Group B practiced in vice versa manner. The subjects were assessed by SlalomDribble-Test in pre test Results showed that there was no significant difference between two groups in acquisition of dribbling Skill (p=0.053). Movement time has been significantly reduced from pre-test to posttest (p=0.0001).Results showed better performance of the right hand than the left (p=0.042). Both groups had shorter dribbling time with the right hand than the left in post-test and retention test. There was no significant difference between two groups in transfer task (p = 0.16). Results indicate that practice with dominant and non-dominant limbs in the initial motor learning seems to be important to improve performance of both limbs and to strengthen bilateral competence of the learners.