The Athletic Skills Model: Optimizing Talent Development Through Movement Education by René Wormhoudt & Geert J.P. Savelsbergh & Jan Willem Teunissen & Keith Davids

Author:René Wormhoudt & Geert J.P. Savelsbergh & Jan Willem Teunissen & Keith Davids [Wormhoudt, René]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781138707320
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-10-12T04:00:00+00:00

The ability to react

The (complex) ability to react concerns the fast and appropriate decision making and acting based on seeing, hearing and feeling. The ability to react can be trained with the emergence of an expected or an unexpected signal in practice tasks. Games are highly suitable to train the ability to react. In most sports (including, for example, table tennis, badminton, volleyball or baseball), you have to react and act quickly as a response to the actions of an opponent; not only as a response to a feint, but also to the changing game conditions. In addition to everyone who plays a game sport, goalkeepers and tennis players are also dependent on their complex ability to react.

According to Edwin Goedhart, medical doctor to the Dutch national football team, fatigue has a negative effect on the ability to react:

Even though it has not been proven for soccer performances in specific, I am convinced this is true. I notice it in the accuracy, starting speed, and in the way players make decisions they would otherwise never make. […] this ability to react and ‘decide without thinking’ are characteristics of a top-class sportsman.

Personal communication with René Wormhoudt, 2016

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