Abstract
Abstract. Football-tennis is a sport that appeared in 1922, and in 1940, the first official regulation was issued. It can be an individual or team sport with single, double or triple events, plus the mixed doubles and triples, which is played by both men and women. Football-Tennis is not recognised nationally and globally as other sports, therefore, in most cases, no emphasis is placed on the physical, technical and tactical training where to take into account the regularisation of training depending on the competitive period in which athletes are at a specific time. The study was conducted on elite athletes representing the Romanian team in international competitions and having a competitive experience of 10-15 years. The motor ability tested in this paper was the speed of movement, which was measured with the help of the OptoJump device. The test applied checked the running speed over the distance of 5 meters. Two tests were performed by players as follows: an initial one, which aimed to determine the level of manifestation of their speed of movement, and a final one, which aimed to determine the level of progress following the application of the centralised training programme. The main objective was to find out: step length, flight time, contact time, flight phase, flat foot, propulsion phase, steps/m, height, angle of inclination and speed in m/s.
Highlights
The emergence of international football-tennis can be placed exactly in 1922 when the partners of the Slavia Prague football club in the Czech Republic began to practise as a leisure activity a sport that they called football over the rope
In order to obtain remarkable performances, in addition to the anthropometric and somatic indices that meet the requirements of football-tennis athletes, there must be great will, which involves perseverance, ambition, devotion or desire to overcome obstacles
These sportswomen are distinguished by a special agility regarding the technical-tactical executions of the Football-Tennis game, as well as by a special desire to obtain great victories and notable performances
Summary
The emergence of international football-tennis can be placed exactly in 1922 when the partners of the Slavia Prague football club in the Czech Republic began to practise as a leisure activity a sport that they called football over the rope (the net was comus from a horizontal rope, which was replaced along the way with mesh). The first official football-tennis competition takes place. Regarding the appearance of football-tennis at the national level, it can be said that it started to be practised since the 70’s, but under a different name. The use of the training programme that took place between the two tests, initial test and final test, can lead to an improvement in the speed of movement, reaction, execution, improvement that can be materialised by obtaining notable results at the European Championship (Kotzamanidis et al, 2005). Execution and reaction as well as explosive force are essential for maintaining optimal endurance during competitions (Manson et al, 2014). This requires prior training aimed at the speed of movement, reaction and execution of specific actions-football-tennis (Mirella, 2001)
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