Open AccessLearning movement by awareness
Author(s) -
Jean-Luc Cotard
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
itf coaching and sport science review/coaching and sport science review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1812-2310
pISSN - 1812-2302
DOI - 10.52383/itfcoaching.v23i67.156
Subject(s) - pace , movement (music) , schema (genetic algorithms) , body schema , computer science , psychology , multimedia , aesthetics , machine learning , philosophy , geodesy , neuroscience , perception , geography
This article reviews a special approach to the learning and teaching of technique. For tennis players, movement awareness and understanding implies full body awareness. Improving your body schema is the foundation for efficient technical learning. As part of body and mind training, repeating good and fundamental technical habits, first at a very slow pace with a progressive increase in speed as skills improve, is surely an approach that is worth considering.