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Paul Jones

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Lecturer in Biomechanics/Strength & Conditioning, University of Salford.
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Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?

  • Paul Jones
  • 17 November 2023
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Assessments of agility, essentially requires tests of change of direction and/ or manoeuvrability in response to stimuli, whereby the athlete’s ‘perceptual-cognitive’ abilities along with their ability to move quickly (perceptual-motor…
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Curve Your Speed: Biomechanical Insights Into Developing Curvilinear Running Speed

  • Paul Jones
  • 4 August 2023
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Introduction Linear sprinting is an important action in match deciding events of field-based sports such as soccer. However, time-motion studies in soccer reveal that not all sprints are linear (Caldbeck,…
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Assessing Change of Direction Qualities in the Field

  • Paul Jones
  • 4 March 2023
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Development of change of direction ability is important to provide the physical and technical foundation to develop agility (Nimphius et al., 2016a). Therefore, it is important for strength and conditioning…
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Biomechanically Informed Training Strategies for Injury Risk Mitigation for Change of Direction

  • Paul Jones
  • 5 August 2022
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In a recent blog we highlighted the importance of strength qualities for change of direction largely from a performance perspective. Change of direction actions are of course associated with numerous…
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Creating Technical Frameworks to Aid the Coaching of Agility Actions

  • Paul Jones
  • 4 February 2022
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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, side-step cutting, pivoting, etc.).…
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    Curve Your Speed: Biomechanical Insights Into Developing Curvilinear Running Speed
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