Prof JB Morin delivered an insightful presentation at the UKSCA 2024 annual conference, discussing the evolution of sprint mechanics and speed training over the past decade. Key topics included force-velocity profiling, sprint mechanics, and the importance of individualised athlete training.

Dr. Jonathan Hughes delivered an insightful presentation on eccentric training at the UKSCA 2024 conference, exploring its role in improving athletic performance across various sports. He discussed how eccentric training helps with deceleration and high-speed movements, emphasising the importance of using advanced methods to measure training transfer into performance gains.

This practical, interactive session will move through a spectrum of drills from warm up, controlled CoD into reactive CoD and finishing with reactive games.

Damian Harper's session from the UKSCA's 2022 Conference discusses the significance of deceleration and braking for athletes involved in multi-directional sports, highlighting the physiological and biomechanical demands of these braking actions.

A lively session from UKSCA's 2022 Conference where experts Alistair McBurnie, Tom Dos' Santos and Damian Harper, discuss training change of direction while fielding questions from the audience.

It has been proposed that discrete qualities such as entry and exit speed could be examined independently which may provide greater information to coaches for enhancing performance.

This study aims to develop maturity sensitive strategies for assessing speed in youth tennis and evaluate performance variation based on biological age.

This presentation shares some of his research findings on the initial sprint acceleration techniques of team sport athletes, offering insight into enhancing sprint acceleration capabilities.

This lecture reviews speed research on biomechanics, physical qualities and training. Coaches will leave with a framework for speed development and insight on speed in practice.

Maximal power applied to the pedal is a key indicator of performance in sprint track cycling. The ankle has a meaningful contribution of transferring power from the hip and knee. However, the ability of the musculotendinous unit around the ankle to directly produce power through the mechanism of the stretch shortening cycle (SSC) is unknown. The aim of this study was to measure the influence of isometric and plyometric training on ankle stiffness and its subsequent effect on sprint track cycling performance.

This study aimed to assess the efficacy of an 8-week strength-power programme optimised to an athlete’s force-velocity profile during a professional rugby league preseason.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between unilateral leg strength speed, momentum, change of direction speed and change of direction deficit, in RL players.