[quote usinon]**@Intheopinionofourexpert* It really isn't just practise. I played tennis at school for years. I was no better in the 6th form than I was in the first. Some people just aren't able to coordinate their bodies in the way others can. Unless you are one of those people, it simply isn't possible to understand* according to neuroscience it is in fact just practice, creating the neural pathways, assuming NT - and ND often as it is this sort of thinking re creating new neural pathways which is used to help ND people nowadays.
If you had taken a bucket of 50 balls and practised hitting all the balls over the net, then all the balls serving, getting someone to chuck them at you to give practice reurning, a couple of times a week, with determination, and watched youtube videos on technique, I can pretty much guarantee you'd have become a competent player!![/quote]
Ah, if only it was that simple. All of us on this thread who found PE humiliating would have been competent at sport if only we'd hit 50 balls out of a bucket, practised, and watched some YouTube videos.
We had more than a dozen tennis court at my school, we were taught by actual teachers, not by watching a screen, from the first form until the 6th form. Some of us just can't make our hands work in coordination with our eyes, however hard we try. But yeah, we should all be a bit more determined.... because tennis is of course an essential life skill.
Research shows that teenage girls drop out of sport at a huge rate (there's plenty of research on this). The issue won't be resolved by practising more, it's about how sport makes girls feel, how it is taught and the lack of insight displayed by people who just don't understand that changes need to happen.