Effects of the intention to hit a disguised backhand drop shot on skilled tennis performance

Iwatsuki, Takehiro; Takahashi, Masanori

doi:10.1177/1747954116644063

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“… Smeeton and Williams (2012) analyzed the kinematics of penalty kicks and found significant differences between non-deceptive and deceptive kicks at multiple markers spanning both the upper and lower body and across all occlusion points. Iwatsuki et al (2016) reported similar results when they compared normal tennis backhand drop shots or when they gave the impression of setting up a backhand slice. Kinematic analysis revealed that the center of mass (COM) moved more forward, horizontal shoulder rotation and twist angle were greater, and racket surface area was higher on tricky drops than on unmasked drop shots.…”

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Influence of sport expertise in facilitating and inhibiting the recognition of the opponent’s intentions in sailing

Cancer,

Pirola,

Fogassi

et al. 2024

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Starting from the proposed role of the mirror neuron system in the recognition of the intention underlying the actions of others, an experimental paradigm was implemented to test the role of sailing motor expertise in predicting the outcome of a competitor’s action. It was hypothesized that subjects with experience in sailing would correctly interpret the maneuver performed due to the activation of domain specific motor representations of the same movements and that subjects who practiced a sport different from sailing would perform worse because of the activation of irrelevant motor patterns. For doing so, a series of video clips, in which a professional sailor performed a tack or a feint, have been manipulated so that the video clips would stop at the moment of the dunkin, namely, when the boat acquires speed to tack or continue straight ahead. The task consisted in predicting whether the action following the dunkin was an actual tack or a feint. The performance of 87 subjects, divided into three subgroups (sailors, tennis players, sedentary), was evaluated in terms of accuracy in identifying the sailor’s intentions and correlated to age, gender, manual dominance, education, job, hours spent weekly playing videogames, and experience in playing sports. Results showed that the percentage of correct identifications of the intention to do a tack or feint was the highest in the group of sailors and the lowest in tennis players. An inverse relation between tennis experience and ability in recognizing the sailor’s intention was found in the group of tennis players. Gender, age, manual dominance, education, job, and experience with videogames were not found to be correlated with performance. Findings support the possible implication of the mirror neuron system in maneuver detection in sailing and may be a starting point for the development of psychological training in this sport.

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confidence: 69%