Abstract
This article discusses the factors that determine the structure of the sport of tennis based on the theories of motor action. It outlines a framework of tennis by reviewing the major theoretical contributions published and by identifying the most unique and specific elements of the game that every coach or athletic trainer needs to know when teaching the tennis concepts or planning and optimizing its training.
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INTRODUCTIONIn the field of tennis teaching, coaches, physical trainers and other members of the multidisciplinary team should have a more or less broad epistemological knowledge of the factors that shape the structural uniqueness of the game of tennis
In the field of tennis teaching, coaches, physical trainers and other members of the multidisciplinary team should have a more or less broad epistemological knowledge of the factors that shape the structural uniqueness of the game of tennis.In the present article we intend to approach the functional structure and the determinants of the game of tennis through the concept of internal logic, introduced in 1981 by Pierre Parlebas in its theoretical postulate on motor praxeology
The internal logic, self Parlebas (1981, p.302) himself defined internal logic as: "the system of features that are relevant to a motor situation and the praxeal consequences that this system results in the game action "
Summary
In the field of tennis teaching, coaches, physical trainers and other members of the multidisciplinary team should have a more or less broad epistemological knowledge of the factors that shape the structural uniqueness of the game of tennis. In the present article we intend to approach the functional structure and the determinants of the game of tennis through the concept of internal logic, introduced in 1981 by Pierre Parlebas in its theoretical postulate on motor praxeology. This discipline, in the words of Lagardera (1994, p.23) tries to “explain the nature of the motor actions of games and sports, classify them, establish taxonomies and expose their internal logic”. Crespo (1990) presented a proposal of a functional structuring of the game, largely based on the model from Hernandez-Moreno (1987) which included in its categorisation the following parameters: space, time, rules, motor communication, motor strategy, technique and materials. We consider the following elements: motor communication, motor strategy and technique mentioned by Crespo (1990) as inherent to the game action or the functional structure that may be addressed in later work (Figure 1)
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