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.

This preliminary study assesses the validity of qualitative assessment tools for cutting, to estimate the magnitude of peak knee abduction moments against 3D motion analysis.

This article critically evaluates the traditional technical model for execution of a movement using step-by-step descriptions of the body’s movements and positions during different phases.

Applying the generalist model, movement contains acceleration, deceleration, frontal and transverse plane movements. Understanding these is key to effective agility coaching.

Recent developments question whether traditional definitions correctly identify agility, adding a reactive element. Regardless, agility may be the best indicator of overall performance.

Many coaches use preplanned agility drills to develop specific movement patterns. However, to prepare for competition controlled chaos must be introduced into training.

The aim of this article is to provide a resource for understanding the key biomechanical principles involved in effective plyometric exercise.

Quantifying the intensity of plyometric exercises using volume-load equations alone is difficult, an integrated framework that better takes into account the volume load is preferable.

This article develops the concept of agility training, focusing on the challenges facing athletes on the field of play, borrowing from several fields to outline a new perspective.

This article provides a sprint hurdles needs analysis relating to biomechanical and physiological aspects, injury considerations, suitability of fitness tests and training approaches.