To deliver effective performance in situational sports, it’s essential to understand what’s happening on the field of play. We’re talking about opposition sports, where two athletes compete for victory (such as fencing, tennis, table tennis, boxing, martial arts, and combat sports), but also team sports.
In these sports, having technical skills and knowing how to execute an effective strategy are fundamental to understanding how the game will develop during a match. If I have to write an essay, I need to know grammar and be able to articulate my thoughts into coherent, comprehensible sentences, using these skills to deliver a specific content. The same goes for a musician performing a piece: they know the music, the structure to follow, and then, during the concert, they must interpret the piece in the best possible way.
It’s therefore crucial to teach athletes to understand what’s happening during a match, how the opponent is responding to the strategy being used, and to decide whether to keep playing the same way or adjust something. This kind of awareness and the decisions that follow should never be taken for granted; they must be trained. In this way, the young athlete becomes prepared not merely for technical-tactical execution but for understanding and adapting to the unfolding of the game.
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