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It gives me great pleasure to provide the results of my most recent research on how novices could improve their table tennis performance via attentiveness training. Whether your interest in sports science is just curiosity, coach, or player, these ideas will be useful!

Why Concentrate on Attention?
In table tennis, one's ability to perform accurate strokes, concentrate on the ball, and predict its movement is very vital. Three networks help to explain attention, a fundamental component of learning and motor skill performance:
Notifying: Getting ready to react to a signal.
Orienting: Guiding attention to the proper location at the proper moment.
Executive control is the ability to make snap judgments under duress.
I wanted to find out how training these networks may let novices improve their accuracy in their forehand strokes and gaze behavior—how they visually follow the ball.
There were 42 university students (18–23 years old), none of them had ever played table tennis.
Four groups total: Alerting, orienting, executive control, and a control group.
Instruction Strategies:
Alerting Group: Responded to a light signal prior to ball strike. This sharpened their response time.
Focused on certain coloured balls, orienting group teaches selective attention while disregarding others.
Combined memory exercises with focused forehand strokes to help executive control groups make better decisions.
Control Group**: Applied the forehand without particular instruction.
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Eye-tracking glasses recorded frequency, position, and look length.
Before training, right away after it, and many days later performance was evaluated.
Over many weeks, eight sessions lasting thirty minutes each.

What Were Our Findings?
All groups that received attention training had higher accuracy than the control group in reaching their goals.
Longer fixation durations on the ball for the Orienting group members helped them better anticipate and prepare their strokes.
Consistent improvements in follow-up assessments indicated that the training had a long-lasting effect.
Training increased participants' fixations on important locations during play, therefore helping them to concentrate more effectively.
Why Is This Important?
Faster Skill Development: By helping novices better digest data, attention training closes the gap with more experienced players.
Training sharpens attention on important game components, hence enhancing response speed and accuracy.
Including concentration exercises into training courses helps coaches speed athletes' learning and performance.
useful Applications
These are possible applications for your results:
Focus on important signals, including ball movement or your opponent's posture, to develop selective attention among athletes.
Create exercises combining motor skills—such as responding to signals or targeting certain areas—with concentration challenges.
3. Novices: Train your eyes and mind to anticipate and react fast, so avoid just striking the ball.

Please click the link below for more details on the study: https://www.ensani.ir/file/download/article/65d9e3a085f21-9761-52-1.pdf