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A Framework for Developing Multi-Directional Speed in the Adolescent Soccer Player: Part One
Professional soccer clubs invest significantly into the development of their academy prospects with the hopes of producing elite players. Professional soccer players have become faster over…
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Optimising Cutting Attacking Agility Actions: Technique Guidelines
Attacking agility actions, such as side-steps, shuffle steps, crossover cutting, split-steps, spins, sharp turns, and decelerations are important manoeuvres in invasion team-sports, often…
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The Importance of Strength Qualities for Change of Direction
In a previous post, we introduced technical frameworks to aid the coaching of agility actions and provided a brief overview of this concept. Although agility may be a global concept, the…
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Are You Missing a Step When Coaching Change of Directions? The Importance of the Penultimate Foot Contact for Performance and Injury Risk Mitigation
Directional changes are some of the most exciting and decisive actions performed in multidirectional sports, often performed to deceive and evade opponents or change location on the pitch or…
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Creating Technical Frameworks to Aid the Coaching of Agility Actions
An important part of multidirectional speed development is the enhancement of technique of speed and agility related actions involved in match play (e.g., sprinting, curvilinear sprinting,…
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Why Screen Side-Step Cutting Movement Quality? Implementing the Cutting Movement Assessment Score
1. Introduction In 2017, we developed and validated the Cutting Movement Assessment Score (CMAS) field-based screening tool to evaluate side-step cutting movement quality related to potential…
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The Deceleration ‘Vaccine’ in Team Sports
Recently, the Science of Multi-Directional Speed team, in collaboration with our friend Dr Damian Harper, published an article in Sports Medicine, highlighting the potential of high-intensity…
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Multi-Directional Speed in Team Sports
In our previous post, we introduced multi-directional speed (MDS) and provided a brief overview of its components. Although MDS may be seen as a global concept, the classification of…
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Welcome to Science of Multi-Directional Speed
Hello from the Multi-Directional Speed Team and welcome to the first official post of our website! Through this page and our other social media platforms, we aim to provide the wider community…
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