All Black legend Aaron Smith working on Tackle technique.
Notice the mindset and prework…the focus on tight arms.
Quick to clamp, quick to control, quick to finish.
Notice the back hand shoots straight to back of far knee…no big swinging arms.
Back arm should always punch tight

Some nice SSG work at Crystal Palace F.C. under Oliver Glasner. Looks like an element of transitioning out of a quadrant into another.

Plenty of room to elicit lots of accels, decels, changes of direction etc.

Aaron Rodgers’ RTP going well.

a little Sunday morning Aaron Rodgers and Garrett Wilson

You really do forget how phenomenal Wayne Rooney was, not just technically, but so explosive physically too.

We are having lots of fun with our residential rehabber Thomas Curry.

Lots of progression in confidence and load tolerance.

Week to week observations are rarely linear and that’s ok, as long as you adjust to it.

Confidence and capacity merged together and you have the bottom

'The KPI metric I’d focus on would be 87%+ sprint effort and distance. This would show our repeat sprint ability at high speeds and if we can perform those efforts for a longer amount of time.' TCU's

Tyrell Brown (Pop Pop) ✌

#CollegeFootball #americanfootball

pro.statsports.com/tcus-tyrell-br…

Using matchday data from our userbase, the athletic capabilities of U.K. U-16 male players have increased significantly from Jan 2022-April 2024

Max Speed: +2%
Dist Per Min: +3.12%
TD: +4.2%
HSR: +6.8%
HID: +6.84%

NEW: In conversation with TCU Football’s Assistant Director of Human Performance Tyrell Brown (Pop Pop) ✌ around spring football training.

On being competitively fast and translating “game speed” 🏈

Click the image to read more. pro.statsports.com/tcus-tyrell-br…

Super interesting in the 'key moments' visual is that in the peak period of running demands is 1) Recovery and 2) Covering.

Good information for drill design?

Throwback to this short little edit from Ángel using Sonra Watch.

- 28 real-time metrics covering up to 8 players simultaneously
- Set thresholds using traffic light system 🚦
- Haptic feedback to alert a threshold has been met/exceeded

Perfect for rehab/RTP.

This is a brilliant piece by Sarah Shephard with Jonas Dodoo that explains how Haaland is really effective in the three key areas of sprint mechanics:

- projection
- switching
- reactivity

theathletic.com/3688637/2022/1…

Best of luck to the The Blues and @chiefs Manawa in the Super Rugby Aupiki final tomorrow.

Some super work ongoing in women’s rugby in New Zealand.

If you’re interested in understanding more about Dynamic Stress Load (DSL), this is a study, using two athletes running the same drill, on how DSL can be used as an indicator of mechanical load.

🔗 pro.statsports.com/the-effect-of-…

Dynamic Stress Load is a great load monitoring metric for teams where there’s significant variance in player size.

Some NFL players are 180lbs, some are 320lbs - that will significantly impact each athlete’s running technique.

The higher the DSL value, the greater the

A strong shift at the back 👊

Caitlin Hayes | STATSports

#COYGIG | #OUTBELIEVE

This is why max speed sprinting during the week is vital for both sprint performance and injury prevention.

Players who reach ≥95% in at least one effort per week are less likely to suffer a muscle injury v those who hit ≥85%.

Preparation for maximal events is key.

Owen Hargreaves on comms: “I didn’t think Martin Ødegaard was that fast!?”

A max speed of 34.92 km/h. Pretty fast.

Here is 16 examples of excellent movement skills. Some noise recently about perceived negative effects of S&C. I prefer to focus on the positives of good quality Athletic Development support.

This is great from Peter Tierney

We can give you the most accurate and reliable data with applicable and actionable insights, but the real work is still going to be done by the practitioner.

How users understand and communicate it is paramount.