Coincidence-Anticipation Timing Requirements are Different in Racket Sports

Abstract

The aim of this study was to compare the coincidence-anticipation timing accuracy of athletes of different racket sports with various stimulus velocity requirements. Ninety players (15 girls, 15 boys for each sport) from tennis (M age = 12.4 yr., SD = 1.4), badminton (M age = 12.5 yr., SD = 1.4), and table tennis (M age = 12.4 yr., SD = 1.2) participated in this study. Three different stimulus velocities, low, moderate, and high, were used to simulate the velocity requirements of these racket sports. Tennis players had higher accuracy when they performed under the low stimulus velocity compared to badminton and table tennis players. Badminton players performed better under the moderate speed comparing to tennis and table tennis players. Table tennis players had better performance than tennis and badminton players under the high stimulus velocity. Therefore, visual and motor systems of players from different racket sports may adapt to a stimulus velocity in coincidence-anticipation timing, which is specific to each type of racket sports.

Effects of Verbal and Visual Feedback on Anticipation Timing

“…Moreover, the amount of feedback can affect learning a skill in different ways, in that frequent feedback has been found to enhance acquisition of the skill but less frequent feedback enhances retention of the skill (Akpinar, Popovic, & Kirazci, 2012). Learning a new task, especially the anticipation-timing task tested in this study, can also be affected by the level of sports participation of the individual (Akpinar, Devrilmez, & Kirazci, 2012).…”

Effects of sport expertise on representational momentum during timing control

“…On the other hand, the control group may have developed through growth or daily experiences of visual motion perception. Thus, knowledge that contributes to extending farther the subjective vanishing location of a moving target is likely acquired as a function of experiences with increased movement velocity (Akpinar, Devrilmez, & Kirazci, 2012).…”

“…In a PM task, participants view a moving target that is subsequently occluded, and participants then respond when the moving target would arrive at a goal if the target continued moving even after it was occluded from the observer's sight. A number of studies using the PM task have revealed that experts have superior timing ability compared with novices (Akpinar, Devrilmez, & Kirazci, 2012;Ripoll & Latiri, 1997;Tenenbaum, Sar-El, & Bar-Eli, 2000) due to accurate estimation of the time-to-contact (TTC), which is one of the critical factors for correctly intercepting a moving object (Tresilian, 1995). DeLucia and Liddell (1998) reported that cognitive motion extrapolation for the future location of a moving target after it disappears is associated positively with TTC estimation.…”

Efecto del género y del resultado final del partido en competiciones profesionales de pádel. [Effect of gender and match outcome on professional padel competition].

“…Despite the growing popularity of this sport and according to previous studies (Lees, 2003;Akpinar, Devrilmez, & Kirazci, 2012) which assumed that the major racket sports are badminton, squash, table tennis and tennis, no consideration has been provided for padel. As consequence, research in padel practitioners is rather poor with respect to that of other similar racket sports such as tennis (Ferrauti, Bergeron, Pluim, & Weber, 2001;O´Donoghue & Ingram, 2001;Smekal et al, 2001), badminton (Cabello & González-Badillo, 2003;Faude et al, 2007, Ooi et al, 2009, and squash (Chin, Steininger, So, Clark, & Wong, 1995;Girard et al, 2007).…”