Feint

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The feint (from the Italian fingere ) means something like excuse or deception .

A feint is an action that suggests an intention to the opponent in order to induce them to react in a predictable way. If the opponent carries out his reaction, this is a good opportunity to carry out the actually intended action. Fints are only promising if they cannot be recognized as such. They must be presented convincingly and not become a habit, otherwise they can be recognized as an attempt at deception and thus endanger the person who finters.

The ruse in sport

Fints are one of the tactical possibilities of sport . Since the information processing capacity of humans is limited, the feint makes use of this by provoking a wrong reaction of the opponent through the suggestion of certain movements, since one carries out another movement oneself. This must be trained accordingly through drills .

Martial arts

In the language of sport, the feint probably came through fencing . A feint is a threat (i.e. stretching the arm, for example) that is not followed by a shock; instead, it should only provoke a defensive action on the part of the opponent, who the attacker then dodges, for example by bypassing the opponent's blade. This opens up a nakedness on the opposite side of the defender that the actual attack can target. The attacker can also execute several feint in succession, one then speaks of double or multiple feint.

An analysis of the feints in boxing at the 2000 Olympic Games showed that the better fighters find the feints quicker to defeat the opponent in question, while the less successful ones do not find the right feints by the end of the fight. It also showed that the successful nations have their own distinct finting schools and that the fighters of these nations (regardless of the weight classes) use them.

In Kendo , a Tsuki attack can be deceiving, and then a small menu to beat. In Budo ( Karate , Aikido, etc.) the deception techniques are called Kensei-Waza . In judo and similar sports, an indicated grip can serve as a feint. In judo, two or more throwing techniques are often used in order to unbalance the uke and then execute a throw.

Ball sports

In ball sports you can use running fakes with which you let your opponent run in the wrong direction. Throwing inks tempt you to take defensive actions.

Diego Maradona 's feint, 1976

In football , a deception maneuver carried out with the ball can irritate the opponent and force tactical mistakes. Fints must be used depending on the situation, for example when dribbling , just before shooting on goal or when receiving the ball. An example of a feint is stepping over , in which the opponent is deceived about the direction to be taken. The so-called also pursues the same goal. Elastico or the hocus-pocus trick . Step, shot, throw-in and pass fakes can be performed. Even a defender can fint.

In ( beach ) volleyball , a feint is a ball that is passed into an empty area of ​​the opponent's play area with an upper pass. It is mostly used by the player to surprise the opponent who is expecting a blow to a blow.

In table tennis , arm movement fakes are often used, especially when serving, to make the opponent misjudge the flight direction, length, speed and rotation of the ball being played.

In this context, American football is referred to as fakes .

The feint as a political or military tactic

In politics or in military maneuvers , feinting can also be an effective means of deceiving opponents. For example, troop movements can be faked in order to distract attention from another theater of war. Probably the most famous diversionary maneuver in history is the myth of the Trojan horse . Another example is the Parthian maneuver , in which a retreat is simulated, but in reality an attack is prepared.

In politics and war, the ruse is also called a ruse or stratagem . The difference to fraud lies in the moral evaluation.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Niedlich, Arnd Krüger : 200 new basketball drills. 4. unchangeable Edition. Hofmann, Schorndorf 2001, ISBN 3-7780-9573-0 .
  2. ↑ Ayman Rashad Hafez Hussein: The feint in boxing. A study using the example of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games . SOWI Diss. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen 2004; http://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/handle/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B23C-3

literature

  • Günter Hagedorn: Deception (feint) . In Günter Hagedorn (ed.): The basketball manual. Official textbook of the German Basketball Association . (= Rororo 9427 Rororo-Sport ). Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1996, ISBN 3-499-19427-9 , p. 187.
  • Peter Röthig (ed.): Sports science lexicon . (= Contributions to teaching and research in physical education 49/50). 6th completely revised edition. Hofmann, Schorndorf 1992, ISBN 3-7780-4496-6 .
  • Christiane Charlotte Okonek: acts of deception in sport. Theoretical analysis of situations of deception and a case study on fiddling behavior in basketball . 1987, DNB 890460302 (Dissertation University of Göttingen, Faculty of Social Sciences, 1987, 224, 107 pages, illustrated, as 4 micro-fish).
  • Ayman Rashad Hafez Hussein: The fakes in boxing: an investigation using the example of the Olympic Games Sydney 2000 , Göttingen 2004, DNB 972676600 (Dissertation University of Göttingen 2004 259 pages full text online PDF, free of charge, 259 pages, 1.9 MB).

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