Research on Elite Volleyball Athletes' Characteristics of Anticipation——Taking "Smash" as Example
Zhongqiu Zhang · Sport Science and Technology · 2012
Objective:To investigate the elite volleyball athletes' characteristics of anticipation when they defended,provide the basis for the ability to anticipate training and guidance.Method:The E-Prime 2.0 was used to show volleyball smash videos and the eye tracking system was used to measure the anticipating process of defensive players according to expert-novice paradigm.Result:The elite athletes' response speed faster and response accuracy higher,less number of fixations and larger saccade distance,in addition to attacker as the main source of information,setter as an important source of information,the attackers' arms and upper body as important anticipating clues when they anticipate smash directions.Conclusion:The elite athletes have certain advantage of visual information processing when they anticipate,the results provided evidences of how to look and what to see when predicting smash directions.