Document Type : Research Paper I Open Access I Released under CC BY-NC 4.0 license
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Department of Behavior and Cognitive Sciences in Sports, Faculty of Sport Sciences and Health, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: With the beginning of research on the relationship between vision skills and sports performance, the idea of vision training to provide an advantage to athletes was a logical next step. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effect of sports vision training and quiet eye training on decision making, gaze behavior and service learning of beginner tennis players.
Methods: In this semi-experimental research, which was carried out with a combined design (intragroup-intergroup), 30 beginner male tennis players from Isfahan Khaneh Complex, with an age range of 20 to 30, were available selected and placed in 2 groups of 15 people for quiet eye training and sports vision training. In the pre-test phase, the participants performed 12 tennis serves, and the gaze behavior (quiet eye) of the participants was also measured during the operation. Also, the service performance of the participants was recorded by a GoPro camera. In addition, the performance of the participants was also recorded by the researcher. In this research, Nielsen and McPherson observation tools were used to evaluate the decision-making skills of tennis players. Then, the experimental groups performed the desired exercises for 8 weeks and 3 sessions per week, each session lasting 30 minutes. After the end of the 24 training sessions, the post-test phase was performed, and two weeks after the last session, the retention phase was performed in the same way as the pre-test phase. The obtained data were analyzed by the mix analysis of variance test.
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