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Learning and practicing table tennis with traditional methods is a long,tedious process and may even lead to the internalization of incorrecttechniques if not supervised by a coach. To overcome these issues, thepresented study proposes an exergame with the aim of enhancing young femalenovice players' performance by boosting muscle memory, making practice moreinteresting, and decreasing the probability of faulty training. Specifically,we propose an exergame based on skeleton tracking and a virtual avatar tosupport correct shadow practice to learn forehand drive technique without thepresence of a coach. We recruited 44 schoolgirls aged between 8 and 12 yearswithout a background in playing table tennis and divided them into control andexperimental groups. We examined their stroke skills (via the Mott-Lockharttest) and the error coefficient of their forehand drives (using a ball machine)in the pretest, post-test, and follow-up tests (10 days after the post-test).Our results showed that the experimental group had progress in the short andlong term, while the control group had an improvement only in the short term.Further, the scale of improvement in the experimental group was significantlyhigher than in the control group. Given that the early stages of learning,particularly in girls children, are important in the internalization ofindividual skills in would-be athletes, this method could support promotingcorrect training for young females.

The Effect of an Exergame on the Shadow Play Skill Based on Muscle Memory for Young Female Participants: The Case of Forehand Drive in Table Tennis