Athletic Assessment

Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?

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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21 min

Assessing the Speed Qualities of the 360° Team Sport Athlete

Readers of our posts will be well-versed by now in the multi-directional requirements of team sport athletes. Between our contributors, we have extensively covered topics that have highlighted the critical…

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14 min

Don’t Speed Up What You Can’t Slow Down: How Are We Assessing Our Athlete’s Horizontal Deceleration Performance Capabilities?

In my previous two blogs I discussed the intricacies of horizontal deceleration and why it is the most mechanically demanding task in multi-directional sports. Despite its clear importance to sports…

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14 min

Testing: What is it Good For?

Overview Fitness testing (i.e., testing the components of fitness related to sports performance and injury) helps drive physical preparation strategies to improve performance and mitigate injury risk (McGuigan, 2017). Fitness…

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17 min

From Straight Lines to Sharp Turns: Evaluating Physical Qualities Essential for Multi-Directional Speed

MDS encompasses various sub-components, including perceptual factors, decision-making, and change of direction speed. Breaking down these components helps in identifying the specific cognitive, biomechanical, technical, and physical requirements of each…

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16 min

Assessing Inter-limb Asymmetries: Should We Bother?

In this blog I wanted to discuss the topic of reporting inter-limb asymmetries for performance and rehabilitation. This post essentially builds on a previous article led by Thomas Dos’Santos where…

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20 min

Assessing Change of Direction Qualities in the Field

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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17 min

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, side-step cutting, pivoting, etc.).…

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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 non-contact ACL injury risk…

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Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?

Assessing the Speed Qualities of the 360° Team Sport Athlete

Don’t Speed Up What You Can’t Slow Down: How Are We Assessing Our Athlete’s Horizontal Deceleration Performance Capabilities?

Testing: What is it Good For?

From Straight Lines to Sharp Turns: Evaluating Physical Qualities Essential for Multi-Directional Speed

Assessing Inter-limb Asymmetries: Should We Bother?

Assessing Change of Direction Qualities in the Field

Creating Technical Frameworks to Aid the Coaching of Agility Actions

Why Screen Side-Step Cutting Movement Quality? Implementing the Cutting Movement Assessment Score

Assessing True ‘Agility’ – The ‘Holy Grail’ of Performance Testing?

Assessing the Speed Qualities of the 360° Team Sport Athlete

Don’t Speed Up What You Can’t Slow Down: How Are We Assessing Our Athlete’s Horizontal Deceleration Performance Capabilities?

Curve Your Speed: Biomechanical Insights Into Developing Curvilinear Running Speed

Testing: What is it Good For?