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The Agility Square is a square configuration of freestanding interactive poles that can be placed at distances of 0-15m from the central position, enabling athletes to train specifically for their individual sport.
A square configuration of freestanding interactive poles that can be placed at distances of 0-15m from the central position, enabling athletes to train specifically for their individual sport.
The Agility Square gives instant, relatable and historical feedback in real time speed direct to the athlete to ensure that whilst performing their efforts they are moving at a speed that will make a difference to their athletic performance. Not only can it be used to ensure the athlete is moving at a high enough speed, but if the athlete cannot reach the speeds need to make a difference if the speed of the athlete is consistently low the question can be asked why and is it in a particular direction, does the low speed need to be looked at and addressed.
The Agility Square can be used at a variety of distances up to 15m, in multiple directions and individual ranges of reach to ensure it can be as sport/athlete specific as possible. Whether it’s a multiple direction diagnostic test to show the athletes strengths and weaknesses, a pre-planned change of direction or a reactive agility drill, the agility square will give the athlete the feedback needed to know what they are doing is not a waste of their time or effort and is going to improve their performance in competition.
With the vast majority of sport being very target focused the agility square has been developed to help an athlete improve their proprioception (perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body) with the use of targeting and reactive hand eye coordination, and with the instant feedback given on their accuracy vs their speed the athlete can ensure that whilst they are getting more accurate or maintaining a high level of accuracy, they are also getting faster with the correct movement patterns specific to their sports.
The Agility Square is scientifically optimised to improve the movement of any athlete. Designed to be as transferable and relatable to the chosen sport sport with specific real time movement in the field of play during competition.
The Agility Square has been designed to help the athlete understand where their individual strengths and weaknesses are; by way of a specific multidirectional and distance test focusing on their movement around the court, with added importance to accuracy - as the importance of hitting a ball/shuttle with a high level of accuracy can be the difference between winning the point or losing it. Along with the importance of the feedback in speed, movement and accuracy the Agility Square can also ensure the athlete is trained to recover to a specific position dependant on what movement drill the athlete is training at the time after each individual effort.
The Agility Square has been designed to be used on an athlete’s specific field of play and can be placed in a configuration specific to the position the athlete plays in. Whether this is for a point guard (basketball) or goal defence (netball) it can be used to specifically look at an athlete’s sports specific movement patterns to ensure that what they do in training can be transferred to an improvement in their performance in competition. It has also been designed to allow two athletes to use the equipment at the same time; whether it’s a head-to-head reaction race or an offence/defence reactive drill the Agility Square will give the instant feedback needed on their speed, movement and accuracy.
Whilst being able to do a multidirectional diagnostic test at a sports specific distance, the feedback from the Agility Square will allow the athletes/coach to see a team specific leaderboard of all the athletes’ strengths and weaknesses in each individual direction; allowing the coach to ensure the areas that need working on are highlighted for each athlete and enable the athletes to see their own strengths and weaknesses in their individual positions on the field of play. Whilst using the Agility Square in training, in both offence and defence, the need to be able to out-manoeuvre your opponent is crucial to the athlete’s ability to create space, to either receive a pass, put a shot on goal or shut down an attack on goal. Training with the Agility Square gives the athlete instant feedback on their speed and shows the progression made i.e. from 2.5m/s to 3.1m/s. This is a more relatable figure of feedback, with the athlete knowing that when they are on the field of play in competition, they are faster than they were before they started training with the Agility Square.
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REAd case study
The aspects of improving an athlete’s performance in movement are:
All of these aspects have to be taken into consideration when looking at an athlete’s strengths and weaknesses, and which area needs to be focused on in relation to their individual sport or position. Being able to accurately and consistently test these aspects of performance in an athlete’s field of competition will give a greater insight as to how the stresses imposed on the athlete in training have a positive effect on the athlete’s performance.
To improve all the aspects of performance for an athlete takes years of commitment, determination, planning and focused development. To be able to instantly and historically monitor an athlete’s speed of movement objectively and in real time, ensures the tracking of the athlete’s progression to ensure the marginal gains from one training block to the next add up to the increases needed to reach a level of performance that will help the athlete to be competitive.
The improvement of an athlete’s perceptual-cognitive ability is seen as a true improvement of their agility; these components consist of accuracy, reaction time, decision making time, pattern recognition and anticipation. To be able to impose the necessary stresses on an athlete to improve in these aspects, a coach has to provide a variety of stimuli consisting of the components needed. The importance of keeping it as sport specific as possible is vital if the improved performance seen in training is as transferable to competition as possible.
