Effect of an Educational Curriculum Using Overlapping Waves Strategy in Learning the Serving Skill among Tennis Players Aged 10 to 12 years

Abstract

Tennis is one of the important individual games that require coaches to raise the skill and physical level of the players. The strategy of overlapping waves focuses on the interactions and matters that occur in the mind, the environment and the field as an indication of the harmony of these components in a cognitive strand which represents the cognitive performance of the learner. Serve is one of the most difficult skills in the game of tennis. New methods and strategies  are being tried in an attempt to arouse enthusiasm and motivation in players and one of these methods is an overlapping waves strategy. Preparing an educational curriculum using overlapping  waves strategy to learn the skill of serve for tennis players  aged 10 to 12 years old . Knowing the effect of the educational curriculum using the overlapping waves strategy for players aged 10 to 12 years.Results reveals the equivalence of the two groups in serving variable. The results of the experimental and control groups t displayed that he calculated t value, it reached (2,319), and the true significance reached (0.043), indicating the presence of significant differences in the experimental group. We conclude that here is  a clear improvement in learning the skill of serving  in the experimental and control groups in the pre-tests and the post-tests and in favor of the post-test.