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Sports instruction is conducted in an open space with physical action. For this reason, sports instructors are required to possess greater spatial cognition, learners' physical condition, cognition of the energy during activities and predictive recognition in sports education classes than they do in classroom lessons. In this context, we investigated situational cognition in this paper by recruiting a university football club coach who also served as a JAPAN PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (J-League) youth team coach and had him observe a J-League game while imaginings that he was the coach. The subject was instructed to talk of what he was seeing as a coach in real time and drawing whatever image he was seeing or processing in his head in real time, whereupon a cognitive review of the talks and supporting drawings was conducted after the game. As a result, it became clear that the space visually perceived as a horizontal surface from pitch-level was understood in terms of representations based on a bird's-eye view of the pitch from above and in terms of representations based on a wide-view of the pitch from a slightly elevated location and that predictions of what would occur next were being made through a process that involved the successive overlaying of representations onto representations.
