Abstract
This study aims to determine the effect of rasistance band weight training on increasing the lob ability of the participants of the Badminton UKM STKIP Paris Barantai. This type of research is an experiment with the design of "The One Group Pretest-Postest Design". The population in this study was the participants of the Badminton UKM STKIP Paris Barantai totaling 25 athletes. The sampling technique used purposive sampling, with the following criteria: (1) female, (2) 18-21 years old, (3) willing to be a sample, (4) not sick, (5) minimum exercise duration of 3 months , (6) 75% activeness. Based on these criteria, there were 16 female athletes who met. The instrument used is the lob ability test (French Test). The validity value is 0.65 and the reliability is 0.96. Data analysis used t-test with a significance level of 5%. The results showed that there was an effect of shuttlecock throwing practice on increasing the lob ability of the participants of the STKIP Paris Barantai Badminton UKM. These results can be proven by t-count 4.381 > t-table 2.13, and a significance value of 0.001 <0.05, with a percentage increase of 23.0%.