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Video-based tactic training in tennis

Proof of efficacy in a field experiment with 10- to 14-year-old tournament players

Videogestütztes Taktiktraining im Tennis

Wirksamkeitsnachweis in einem Feldexperiment mit 10- bis 14-jährigen Turnierspielern

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The goal of the current study was the adaptation of the method of video-based tactics training, successfully established in other sports, to tennis for 10–14 yr old tournament players and to assess the effects with a field experiment. The concept for video-based tactics training is based on the qualitative method for video-based game analysis with reconstruction and interpretation of own match scenes in real competition in order to link match and training. In combination with findings in the fields of embodiment, mental training and expertise studies a cognitive perceptive link was created offcourt followed by the integration in the holistic Game-Based-Approach oncourt. With respect to highest possible practical relevance a field experiment with an experimental and control group of 12 players each was conducted. The experimental group participated in a 12-week-program devoted to video-based tactics training, the control group continued the regular training without video. In a pre- and post-experiment test three types of variables were assessed: First, players‘ ability in interpreting tactical behavior, second players‘ tactical behavior in official matches and finally psychological characteristics. Players‘ ability in interpreting tactical behavior was measured using the specifically developed video-based tactics test VITT, players‘ tactical behavior in official matches was analyzed by the specifically developed match-tactics test MATT. Results showed significantly stronger improvements in the cognitive ability in interpreting tactical behavior and the tactical behavior in real matches in the experimental group. The new tests VITT and MATT deliver as instruments of performance analysis complex information about tactical behavior.

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Ziel der Arbeit war die Abstimmung der in anderen Sportarten bewährten Methode des Video-Taktiktrainings auf die Sportart Tennis für 10–14 jährige Turnierspieler und der Wirksamkeitsnachweis mit einem Feldexperiment. Die Konzeption des Video-Taktiktrainings erfolgte auf Basis der Qualitativen Spielbeobachtung mit Rekonstruktion und Interpretation eigener Spielszenen im Wettkampf zur Kopplung von Match und Training. In Verbindung mit Erkenntnissen aus dem Embodiment und der Expertiseforschung erfolgte eine kognitiv-perzeptive Verbindung offcourt und eine Einbindung in den ganzheitlichen Game-Based-Approach oncourt. Unter der Prämisse größtmöglicher Praxisnähe wurde der multidimensionale wissenschaftliche Nachweis der Wirksamkeit von Video-Taktiktraining in einem Feldexperiment mit einer Versuchs- und Kontrollgruppe mit jeweils 12 Spielern erbracht. Bei der Versuchsgruppe wurde ein 12-wöchiges Video-Taktiktraining im regulären Training integriert, die Kontrollgruppe trainierte ohne Video. Im Rahmen eines Eingangs- und Ausgangstests wurden die Variablen „taktische Analysefähigkeit“ durch den eigens konzipierten Video-Taktik-Test VITT, das „Matchverhalten“ durch den neu entwickelten Match-Taktik-Test MATT empirisch erfasst. Als Ergebnis zeigten sich signifikante Auswirkungen von Video-Taktiktraining auf die kognitive Komponente „taktische Analysefähigkeit“ und das „Matchverhalten“ der Versuchsgruppe im realen Wettkampf. Die Tests VITT und MATT liefern komplexe Informationen über das taktische Verhalten und sind als leistungsdiagnostische Instrumente einsetzbar. Es wurden wissenschaftlich fundierte technologische Regeln für die Methode Video-Taktiktraining im Tennis für 10- bis 14-jährige Turnierspieler generiert.

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Raschke, A., Lames, M. Video-based tactic training in tennis. Ger J Exerc Sport Res 49, 345–350 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12662-019-00598-x

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