What It's All About

The curriculum is designed to help you understand and apply change of direction and agility training in all sports.

Ensuring your coaching transfers to performance is your top priority.

Despite this, when in your education as an S&C coach have you covered agility and change of direction development in any depth?

The chances are you probably haven’t…

Agility has been the missing piece in education and application for a long time. We have filled the linear speed gap, but the agility gap is as big as ever. You HAVE to get more comfortable and effective at COD and agility if you want to enhance your career and your impact as a coach

Currently, you go through your strength development programme, add in some speed sessions and maybe the odd multi-directional drill. Then you watch the athletes perform and see everything happening with much greater complexity and uncertainty.

Is what you are doing having an optimal impact on competition?

Are you ignoring other key multi-directional movement skills?

To maximise your chances of success, you need to ensure you have all the tools you’ll possibly need. Agility and change of direction development is one of those tools that few have, and fewer know how to effectively use.

Hence that you, and hundreds of other coaches walk out onto pitch and a filled with anxiety and confusion when it comes to multi-directional speed.

The issue is, agility is complex. Answers to questions often aren’t straight-forward.

It depends… and when it depends, you need to be able to make your own decisions and understand each situation. Without this, you'll be stuck copy and pasting some drills from social media with no-one getting better.

You need to understand the why and the how in your own system.

That is why our curriculum is a semi-guided learning journey, allowing you to learn at your own pace and around your schedule, but with frequent support opportunities via both a commuity discussion platform and live events.

This curriculum combines agility education which you won’t find anywhere else with our innovative course model to become a completely unique experience.

The Pain of Agility...

As S&C coaches and sports scientists we come from traditionally physiological backgrounds. We don’t learn about movement skill or the interaction of constraints during competition. We now have lots of opportunities to learn a little about sprinting and speed training, but team and raquet sports are multi-directional. Yet education in this area is far from accessable.

Learning is made even harder by the divide in philosophies from low intensity, problem solving, games based approaches vs pre-planned COD and movement perfection approaches.

Luckily, we believe it's always about a balanced approach and that you should have the understanding and expertise to choose for your situation. The course gives you all the tools and every perspective.

Learning this content any other way will cost more time AND money.

You’ll need:

• To source multiple resources (which barely exist)
• To make lots of coaching mistakes (which need guidance and reflection to improve)
• To find support and mentorship (from people you may not know)
• Or to pay thousands for modules as part of an MSc (where to be honest, you still won’t cover this content)

This curriculum will make your biggest learning hurdle as a coach, a much simpler step in your education journey

Be more confident in coaching agility on pitch

Be more valuable to athletes and sport coaches

Be able to effectively plan representative training sessions with a physical emphasis

Be part of a community of coaches from various sports

What You'll Learn

• How to analyse tasks in sports, understand constraints and reverse engineer training design
• How you can train to achieve physical overload AND perceptual skills at the same time
• How to profile athletes for multi-directional speed skills and what capacities to prioritise
• What technical models to expect and how they interact with tasks and their constraints
• How to analyse deceleration, cutting, stop and go’s, curve runs and defensive movements
• Key physical and perceptual priorities for COD based injury prevention
• What training and progression models to use on a micro, meso and macro level
• How to progress pre-planned training towards tactically specific situations using constraints
• Practical training progressions and frameworks to design your own drills
• The unique Multi-Directional Movement Skill framework
• Plus a whole lot more from our guest presenters and other students!

Will the course be sports specific?

The programme is suitable for anyone working in field of court sports. However, where possible we will create specific sport discussions, working groups and networking opportunities, but you'll also benefit from the diversity of thoughts from coaches in other environments.  

What level is the content pitched at?

The content is pitched at MSc level and above where detail, depth and debate are prioritised. The curriculum is not designed as a basic introduction or a copy and paste set of exercises. We recommend that all students have a foundational understanding of sport and exercise science and are actively coaching.

How long can I access the content?

Course content comes with lifetime access and then access to the ongoing guest sessions, discussion spaces and bonus modules is dependant on your chosen package.

What if I can't attend the live Q&A's?

If you can’t make the live Q&A's, you will still be able to network and communicate with your fellow students and ask questions through the online community platform.  

I am a Sports Coach or a Physiotherapist, is this suitable for me?

If you work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to improve on pitch performance, and have outcomes which link to agility, there will be lots here for you. We cover injury risk, perceptual-cognitive expertise, and representative design. Plus, our mentors bring their own specific experiences and skills in application. If you would like to discuss more, feel free to reach out for a chat.  

How will I be supported throughout the course?

There will be one Q&A each month and an unlimited time to ask questions about the content on the community platform. 1 on 1 mentoring sessions are also available to students who wish to sign up for the mentoring package.