Quick start and stops
Category: Agility
Level: 2
Perform multiple stops and starts over ~20 meters
Carla van den Berg
- Soft bend at hips and knees
- Knees stacked over ankle when decelerating and accelerating
- Trunk angle similar to shin angle
- Arms move forward with opposing leg; movement is initiated from the shoulder
- Elbows flexed at 90-degrees
- Knee caving in on deceleration
- Cue “Knee over pinky toe”
- Lazy arms
- Cue “Swing from the shoulder”
- Cue “Drive elbows back”
- Arm and knee from same side moving together
- Cue “Opposite arm and knee”
- Practices accelerations and safe decelerations
- Reaction drill that challenges athletes to quickly respond to external cues, similar to demands in a game
- Trains proper running mechanics