Play Smart Tennis – MIND YOUR GAME – Anticipate! Don’t participate
by Milos Dimic, Sports Neuroscience PhD
コート上の状況に対する最も重要な適応は、適切なテニスの練習を通じて開発された、知覚的および認知的評価スキルに基づくプレーヤーの意識から生まれます。知覚・認知プロセスの重要性は、選手が相手の行動に対して事前に反応を起こし（予測）、それに対して最適な行動を起こす（意思決定）ことを可能にする点にあります。試合では、生理学的な要素も非常に重要ですが、先読みや意思決定などの知覚・認知能力が高いレベルのパフォーマンスを支えています。だからこそ、トレーニングの核となるのは、予測や意思決定、そしてオプション生成のプロセスを開発することではないでしょうか。
Through the course of tennis history, players’ performance enhancement evolved around the strokes and its effective application for the purpose of winning points in the competitive environment. Players’ stroke execution is surely one of the most researched field in the game of tennis as all tennis players, no matter of the level of their game or competitive involvement, are mostly attentive to the stroke mechanics and consistency of their body parts movement in space and time. Players usually try to be mostly aware of their own hitting space, with a tendency to underestimate the fact that tennis is a game of movements and interactions.
To be able to produce consistent level of performance at the physical (visible to eye) level, athletes are in need of the rested and productive brain, prepared to create mental images and connect them to the muscle fibers producing the most optimal movement
Visual system is the dominant sensory system and critical for detecting relevant cues for an appropriate motor response. As such, for successful performance, an athlete, especially in tennis, must identify and attend to relevant visual cues as early as possible
Visual search, peripheral vision, gaze in tennis, anticipation
For a player to move the body segments efficiently, there should be optimal combination of the stability and mobility through lowering the center of gravity created by loading the major muscle groups of the lower extremities.
Upper body force creation depends of the elastic capabilities of the muscles of the trunk. The reason the players create a larger upper trunk rotation beyond the hips is to pre stretch the trunk rotator muscles and create a powerful separation angle
Play Smart Tennis - MIND YOUR GAME - Anticipate! Don’t participate 