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moving and still defending from opposite team.
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Player has to hit the ball while fixing target, moving and still defending from opposite team.
I need some help with this expression. What do you understand by "moving and still defending from the opposite...". Paraphrase welcome.
Thanks in advance.
I need some help with this expression. What do you understand by "moving and still defending from the opposite...". Paraphrase welcome.
Thanks in advance.
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| 4 +1 | 4 simultaneous tasks |
Yvonne Gallagher
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| 4 | see explanation |
Daryo
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| 3 | Defending and pushing forward |
Keeva Rock
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Yvonne Gallagher
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4 simultaneous tasks
The player has to 1) hit the ball while 2) fix on the target, 3) continue to move and 4) defend (the ball) from the opposing team.
A bit more surrounding context really helps so I went searching for the text. (It isn't that well written.) Knowing the sport involved is important as sports and positions require different abilities.
https://www.academia.edu/13490322/Study_of_Ball_Hitting_Spee...
However, this is a more specific study of field hockey players and in particular how the players
"hit the ball in such a way that the ball travelled as fast and in a straight line as possible, from the center line towards the fixed target (goal line or end line), with zero or minimum vertical distance of the travelling ball from the ground.
Average speed was measured as distance travelled (meter) per second, from best out of three attempts.
Players of field hockey require many skills to perform during game and training,including dribbling the ball and moving fast with bent forward posture (Reilly et al. 1990). There are many ways of striking a ball in hockey; like hit, slap, clip or push; and for every style, the main purpose is to make the ball reach its targeted destination. Speed of the traveling ball is one of the most crucial factors in the game, and a skill expected from the players.
Player has to hit the ball while fixing target, moving and still defending from opposite team. ..."
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That last line describes a match situation where the player is continuing to move and defend the ball (actively trying to stop the other team from getting/robbing the ball) all the while focused on their fixed target, explained as the "goal line" or end line".
This study is actually concentrating more on their ball-hitting prowess rather than other aspects of play.
"speed of the ball taking other factors such as the player's height, BMI etc. into account"
Clearly, every member of a team MUST be able to hit the ball well, at the right angle and with enough speed on it to reach its intended target
"The players need to overcome the physiological strain and fulfill the demands of training; therefore the skills and performance are expected to be associated with relevant characteristics like anthropometry, physiology and training related adaptations. [...]"
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Note added at 187 days (2023-05-21 01:24:32 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped
A bit more surrounding context really helps so I went searching for the text. (It isn't that well written.) Knowing the sport involved is important as sports and positions require different abilities.
https://www.academia.edu/13490322/Study_of_Ball_Hitting_Spee...
However, this is a more specific study of field hockey players and in particular how the players
"hit the ball in such a way that the ball travelled as fast and in a straight line as possible, from the center line towards the fixed target (goal line or end line), with zero or minimum vertical distance of the travelling ball from the ground.
Average speed was measured as distance travelled (meter) per second, from best out of three attempts.
Players of field hockey require many skills to perform during game and training,including dribbling the ball and moving fast with bent forward posture (Reilly et al. 1990). There are many ways of striking a ball in hockey; like hit, slap, clip or push; and for every style, the main purpose is to make the ball reach its targeted destination. Speed of the traveling ball is one of the most crucial factors in the game, and a skill expected from the players.
Player has to hit the ball while fixing target, moving and still defending from opposite team. ..."
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That last line describes a match situation where the player is continuing to move and defend the ball (actively trying to stop the other team from getting/robbing the ball) all the while focused on their fixed target, explained as the "goal line" or end line".
This study is actually concentrating more on their ball-hitting prowess rather than other aspects of play.
"speed of the ball taking other factors such as the player's height, BMI etc. into account"
Clearly, every member of a team MUST be able to hit the ball well, at the right angle and with enough speed on it to reach its intended target
"The players need to overcome the physiological strain and fulfill the demands of training; therefore the skills and performance are expected to be associated with relevant characteristics like anthropometry, physiology and training related adaptations. [...]"
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Note added at 187 days (2023-05-21 01:24:32 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped
Peer comment(s):
| agree |
Daryo
: OK, if you include the main task, it makes it 4.
9 days
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Thanks. Yes it's Indian English but not well-written or well structured and there are grammar/vocab errors as well. BTW no "puck" involved as it's field hockey
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Keeva Rock
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Defending and pushing forward
Thinking of football
1 day 38 mins
English term (edited):
while fixing target, moving and still defending from opposite team
see explanation
the point of the whole sentence is that the player has to pay attention to 3 tasks at the same time / in parallel:
1 "fixing target" = being focused on "the target", the "target" being the goal or another player that will receive the ball;
2 "moving" = simply that - the player keeps moving while doing the other two tasks - in whichever direction seems to be the best;
3 "defending from opposite team" = prevent the opposing team from hitting the ball first / taking the control of the ball from the player.
The opposite team taking the ball is only the first step to "scoring", it's still far from "scoring" - I don't know of any game where you "score" simply for having the ball.
The very literal "defending" - as in the goal-keeper "defending" the goal makes no sense: the goal-keeper has no "target" to fix on, as opposed to all other players.
1 "fixing target" = being focused on "the target", the "target" being the goal or another player that will receive the ball;
2 "moving" = simply that - the player keeps moving while doing the other two tasks - in whichever direction seems to be the best;
3 "defending from opposite team" = prevent the opposing team from hitting the ball first / taking the control of the ball from the player.
The opposite team taking the ball is only the first step to "scoring", it's still far from "scoring" - I don't know of any game where you "score" simply for having the ball.
The very literal "defending" - as in the goal-keeper "defending" the goal makes no sense: the goal-keeper has no "target" to fix on, as opposed to all other players.
Discussion
https://www.bhu.ac.in/Site/Home/1_2_16_Main-Site
Their website is in English and in Hindi. So if this text is any kind of "translation", it would be a "translation" from Hindi.
OR, more likely it would mean it was written in a kind of "native English" that is "native" to Hindi speakers.
Now, I remember reading some very entertaining disputes about whether the US or the UK version of English is the "real/proper/native" English. If you want to add the "Hindi English" to that dispute about "nativeness", by all means feel free to do so. But personally, j'ai d'autres chats à fouetter.
Why on earth would the text be "a bad translation from German"?
Unless you assume that "their" writing is in fact taken from some German paper, but that would be a bit far fetched ... given that the study sample is "31 Indian national level field hockey players (18 male and 13 female, aged 12-21 years)".
It's their style of writing, nothing more.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309638197_Study_of_...
- but the English in the study is slightly dodgy. It could equally apply to rugby (missed penalty), soccer (free kick), basketball (missing the hoop) ...
But the player wouldn't be moving forward - rather laterally or racing back.