Agility

Developing Agile Athletes: Applying the Agility Development Framework in Practice

Agility actions—including side-steps, shuffle steps, crossover cuts, split-steps, spins, sharp turns, and decelerations—are critical manoeuvres in multidirectional sports, frequently determining match-winning moments (Dos’Santos et al., 2022; Martínez Hernández et al.,…

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21 min

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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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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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 linked with decisive, match winning moments. Generally,…

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

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Developing Agile Athletes: Applying the Agility Development Framework in Practice

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

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

Optimising Cutting Attacking Agility Actions: Technique Guidelines

Creating Technical Frameworks to Aid the Coaching of Agility Actions

Biomechanical Determinants of Performance and Injury Risk During Change of Direction – An Optimal Technical Model to Mediate the Conflict

Biomechanical and Neuromuscular Demands of Change of Direction: Implications for Athlete Physical Preparation

Developing Agile Athletes: Applying the Agility Development Framework in Practice

T-Junction Injuries of the Biceps Femoris: Anatomy, Diagnosis, and Rehabilitation Evolution

The Importance, Challenges, and Developments of Biomechanical Load Measurements in Multidirectional Sports