Attacking agility actions: Match play contextual applications with coaching and technique guidelines

T Dos' Santos, A McBurnie, C Thomas… - Strength & …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Attacking agility actions, such as side steps, shuffle steps, crossover cutting, split steps,
spins, decelerations, and sharp turns, are important maneuvers in invasion team sports …

Agility in invasion sports: Position stand of the IUSCA

W Young, T Dos' Santos, D Harper… - … Journal of Strength …, 2022 - journal.iusca.org
Agility is a complex skill that is influenced by several physical, technical and cognitive
factors. In this position stand, we discuss agility as it relates to invasion sports such as the …

An agility training continuum for team sports: from cones and ladders to small-sided games

T Mota, J Afonso, M Sá… - Strength & Conditioning …, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Agility is a key and complex concept within team sports performance. Because of its
multidimensional nature, agility benefits from perceptual and cognitive skills as well as …

Agility and change-of-direction speed are independent skills: Implications for training for agility in invasion sports

WB Young, B Dawson… - International Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
This review explores the differences between agility in invasion sports (defined as including
reactive decision-making) and change-of-direction speed (CODS), and highlights the …

Training for change of direction and agility

T Dos'Santos, P Jones - Advanced strength and conditioning, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Agility is a vital quality to develop in athletes from a number of field-and court-based sports
and is dependent on perceptual-cognitive factors to effectively perceive the environment and …

It's time to change direction on agility research: a call to action

W Young, R Rayner, S Talpey - Sports Medicine-Open, 2021 - Springer
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 …

Improving invasion game performance

SA Mitchell - Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Table 1 identifies the major tactical problems that must be solved for teams to score, prevent
scoring, and restart play effectively. To score, a team must solve the progressively complex …

Notational analysis of evasive agility skills executed by attacking ball carriers among elite rugby players of the 2015 Rugby World Cup

NNBM Zahidi, SIB Ismail - Malaysian Journal of Movement, Health …, 2018 - journals.lww.com
The role of skill in task execution among elite rugby players has become the focus of
numerous researchers. Thus, this study aimed to explore the frequency, the most highly …

Tackling technique, injury risk, and playing performance in high-performance collision sport athletes

T Gabbett, P Ryan - … Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated the tackling technique of high-performance, collision-sport athletes
and documented the relationships between tackling technique and playing experience …

Effective attacking strategies in rugby union

KW Wheeler, CD Askew, MG Sayers - European Journal of Sport …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
Evasive change-of-direction manoeuvres (agility skills) are a fundamental ability in rugby
union. In this study, we explored the attributes of agility skill execution as they relate to …