The purpose of the study was to find out the effects of game-specific skills training with and without yogic practices on balance among hockey players. To achieve the purpose the study, forty five college level hockey players were selected from Sholapur district, Maharastra, were randomly selected as subjects. As per the records, their age ranged from 18 to 25 years. For this study the true randomized experimental group design has been employed with three groups namely game-specific training group, game-specific training with yogic exercises group and control group with 15 subjects each. Group I and II participated their respective treatments for a period of twelve weeks and no training were given to the control group. Balance was assessed by stork stand test. The three groups were statistically analysed by using analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). In case of significance of mean difference was observed on the criterion measure, to find out which pair of group is high among the others, as a post – hoc test, the Scheffe’s test was applied. The result indicating that game-specific skills training with yogic practice have better score than the other two groups on balance.

Keywords: Skills Training, Balance, Hockey Players.