How Tennis Players learn Motor Skills: Some Considerations
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Coaching, Motor learning, Open skill, Types of practiceAbstract
Tennis coaches teach technique and movement skills to players from a young age. Frequently, their emphasis is on ‘what’ to coach and not ‘how’ to do so. Current research offers challenges to conventional coaching and suggests that the ‘how’ of learning motor skills is more important. This article describes a number of coaching behaviours that could increase and improve motor learning with a greater focus on tennis specific practice.
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