In Teaching tennis motor skills; a comparision of single and double sided teaching methods

SUMMARY: Tennis is one of the sport disciplines which utilizes both performance and rekreation. We come accross with contradictions and missing points in the teaching of tennis skills. Therefore, the goal of our research will be to find out whether single - sided or two - sided training is more succesfull. We will be using the values and results from the performances for comporison. The research subject group includes 16 female students from Physical Education School 1. The age avarage of the group is 20.02 ± 2.79 their avarage length is 1.65 ± 0.04 and their avarage weight is 57.43 ±8.31. The group has been divided into two. The first eight people has been trained with two - sided techiniques and the other eight with single - sided techniques. A new training model has been shaped with the help of the ability classification table that was created by Gentile and her friends during the motor - skilled training. With this model both of the groups practiced by the wall and 6, 9, 12 meter further from the wall. Both of the groups practised with the pre set number of 500 hits. The research continued for 3 months, every subject completed 14000 hits. Every one of the subjects went through 3 tests from 6 meters, 3 tests from 9 meters, 8 tests from 12 meters and 2 Heker test during the study. For the group that's working single - sided; 3 tests from 6 meters, 3 tests from 9 meters and 8 tests from 12 meters has been performed additionally. As a result, the learning performance of the two - sided group turned out to be higher than the single - sided one (P < 0.05). XI