Hand-Eye Coordination and Arm Muscles Explosive Power to Basketball Player’s Shooting

The issue in this study is shooting skills of basketball players which are low categorized. The aim of study is to determine the relationship of hand-eye coordination and arm muscle explosiveness to the shooting ability of basketball players. This is correlational research design. Population is a group of basketball players at a school with 15 players as a sample who taken by saturated sampling technique. The instrument used to collect the data are followings: (1) ballwerfen und-Fangen used to measure hand-eye coordination, (2) basketball throwing is used to measure arm muscle explosive power, and (3) one-handed penalty shooting used to measure shooting ability of basketball player. The data were analyzed by using statistic analysis of Pearson Product-Moment to see whether two independent variables were related to the dependent variable with significant level α=0.05. The result of the research showed that (1) there was a significant correlation between hand-eye coordination on shooting ability (r=0.657 with tobserved=3,258 > ttable=2,145), (2) there was a significant correlation between arm muscle explosive power to shooting ability (r=0,712 with tobserved=3,794 > ttable=2,145), (3) there was a significant correlation between hand-eye coordination and arm muscle explosiveness to the shooting ability (R=0,747 with Fobserved 8,206 > Ftable 3,880).