The effectiveness of bilateral transfer on basketball-dribbling task among adolescents / Nur Syafeeqa Sazalee

A bilateral transfer is a theory of motor learning that has been defined as the ability of an individual to acquire and implement the transfer of skills from one limb to another.
A good practice of bilateral transfer of one-handed motor skills can also produce excellent performance. Thus, the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of bilateral transfer on basketball-dribbling task among adolescents. Thirty-eight right-handed adolescents were divided into 2 groups with different sequences of practiced over four weeks with the dominant hand, before changing to their non-dominant hand (D-ND group), or with the non-dominant hand, before changing to the dominant hand (ND-D group). Tests were conducted with the right hand only in the pre-test and the post-test. Significant effects were noted in both groups (p > 0.05). However, no significant difference sequence of practiced order was reported between D-ND and ND-D group. Practice order effects can be explained with hemispheric brain asymmetries for the processing of specific task requirements.