Error Detection in Tennis

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Theory & Practice Individual Sports II Error Detection In Tennis & Correction Saifallah Bahri Trabelsi 201103830 Department of Sport Science Qatar University– Doha/Qatar May 20, 2014 Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Background 4 Error Detection & Correction 5 Description of the correct technique 5 Serving Errors 7 Major mistakes & correction exercise 7 Minor mistakes & correction exercise 9 Discussion 11 Conclusions 12 Appendix 13 Case study 17 Resources 19 Acknowledgments 20 Introduction The objective of the study is to help any Sport Science student to obtain the major skill of coaching which is "skill analysis"- the ability to observe when looking to an athlete and do the correct evaluation of the performance and knowing how to act if any errors has been made by the athlete. Kerr (1982) argues that being the one that provides the most knowledge of reality ensures that vision is the most active, organized and informative sensorial system,. Therefore The student should use visual information in order to be able to detect major & minor mistakes by observation and then provide the right solution in a form of an exercise. Error detection can be divided into three phases, usually starts with observing a demonstrated skill or exercise, then analyzing the exercise/skill effectiveness and ends with detection of errors and providing correction for the athlete to improve his future performance. Before the student observe and analyze

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