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REFLEX CONDITIONING [1 record]

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Record 1 1996-09-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Racquet Sports
CONT

A good [doubles] team will develop automatic responses and should not be saying "Yours!", except at those rare times when a shot is right on the ... borderline.

OBS

Related phraseology: to do something until it becomes second nature to you, to program oneself, muscular response, to respond automatically; motor-learning expert, motor programming.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sports de raquette
DEF

Entraînement qui vise à rendre automatique des gestes tennistiques, tel changement de prise en fonction du coup à jouer.

OBS

Phraséologie connexe : mécaniser, mécanisation, routine, coup devient instinctif à force de répétition.

CONT

[...] une fois engagé dans un match [de tennis], à faire abstraction de la technique grâce à l'acquisition d'automatismes.

Spanish

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