Application of Variable Practice to Technique Training in Tennis
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https://doi.org/10.52383/itfcoaching.v21i60.457Keywords:
Coaching, Learning, Technique, Variable practice, Dynamic systemsAbstract
The human being is interpreted as a complex system with a capacity to adapt, and in continuous interaction with his environment (Kelso, 1995). Any variation around him will create changes in the system to adjust to the surrounding conditions. This capacity to adapt, a characteristic of the biologic system, is an appropriate reference to understand the motor learning processes (Davids, Button & Bennett, 2008). Learning stems from an adaptation process that the learner goes through. If the tasks proposed are repeated, the system tends to aim for a new balance with new features depending on the characteristics of the tasks. That is, the direction of the behavior changes we produce will depend on the conditioning tasks (Moreno 2006). It is at this point that variable practice appears, making the tennis player explore his/her motor-perceptive skills, looking for new coordination patterns or attractors so that the most appropriate technical patterns solve the different game situations.
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