It's Time to Change Direction on Agility Research: a Call to Action.

Agility is an important skill for both attackers and defenders in invasion sports such as codes of football. On the sporting field, agility requires reacting to a stimulus, often presented by an opponent's movement, before a change of direction or speed. There is a plethora of research that examines...

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Publicado en:Sports Medicine - Open Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 1 - 6
Autores principales: Young, Warren, Rayner, Russell, Talpey, Scott
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature 2/12/2021
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          Young, Warren
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        affil: School of Science, Psychology and Sport, Federation University Australia, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
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          Agility Evaluation
          Locomotion
          Sports
          Australian Football
          Task Performance and Analysis
          Movement
          Physical Performance
          Acceleration
          Outcome Assessment
      ab: Agility is an important skill for both attackers and defenders in invasion sports such as codes of football. On the sporting field, agility requires reacting to a stimulus, often presented by an opponent's movement, before a change of direction or speed. There is a plethora of research that examines the movement component of agility in isolation, which is described as change-of-direction (COD) ability, and this is thought to underpin agility performance. This opinion article proposes that COD ability should not be researched as the only or primary outcome measure when the objective is to inform agility performance in invasion sports. It is argued that pre-planned COD movements and tests lack ecological validity because they lack perception-action coupling and involve movement out of context from the game. The movement techniques and strength qualities required for the performance of COD tests can be quite different to those required for agility. It is suggested that COD tests can be applied to sports that involve pre-planned COD movements, but researchers should endeavour to use agility tests when studying invasion sports. Some new methods for assessing one-on-one agility contests are reported as potentially valuable for future research, and examples of research questions are provided.
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