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Every physical activity has several requirements that participate in its accomplishment to reach perfect performance and leveling up. These requirements are physical, physiological, psychological, as well as kinesthetic and perceptive those play an important role in mastering all physical activities. In volleyball, the importance of kinesthetic-perceptional appears as one of the demands of technical performance of offensive and defensive skills, especially, spiking. The difficulty of kinesthetic performance is regarded as one of the critical problems that face the learners and leads to the difficulty in performing physical skills efficiently and accurately with economy in effort. Spiking is also regarded as one of the difficult and complicated skills in volleyball that makes it hard to master by students and learners. So, this skill needs the learners to have certain kinesthetic-perceptive abilities to learn and master it. The importance of this study lies in the weakness and instability in the performing spiking skill by female students. The reason behind this weakness might be the lack of high rate of kinesthetic-perceptive abilities that have a critical effect on performing this skill because it needs a high extent of harmonious and perceptive abilities to perform. The researcher sought to study this problem and to investigate the strength and weakness of the female students to reveal their real level so as to give the educators in the different Iraqi universities a chance to build an educational curriculum based on scientific foundation, and adopting the results of this study in developing the educational process of volleyball. This study aims at investigating the difficulties of kinesthetic performance in the sample of the study as well as investigating the relation between kinesthetic ISSN: 2074-6032 82 148 and perceptional abilities according to the difficulty of performing spiking. The researcher adopted the descriptive method with correlation approach. The sample of the study included 50 female students from the fourth grade in the college of physical education and sport science - University of Diyala for the academic year 2014-2015. The results showed that there is no correlation between kinesthetic and perceptional abilities in those with difficulty in performance (law, middle), yet there is a significant correlation between kinesthetic and perceptional abilities (especially harmony between leg and eye) in those with high difficulty of kinesthetic performance and the performance of spiking skill. The researcher also discovered that there is a high correlation between all the variables (kinesthetic and perceptional abilities) on those having difficulty in kinesthetic performance (high, middle, law) and performing spiking (multiple correlation coefficient and discrimination coefficient), i.e. predictor predicted relation. The researcher finally recommended the attention to educational curricula of volleyball and including topics for developing kinesthetic and perceptional abilities as a basis for learning the skills of the game and leveling up the educational process and decreases the difficulties of kinesthetic performance. (Published Abstract)