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Home Magazine Issues May 2012 Speed Report – Multi-Dimensional Movement Speed Before the…

Speed Report – Multi-Dimensional Movement Speed Before the Season Begins

The essence of football speed is velocity with control. Many sports require movement changes. However, football is more challenging than other team sports due to the amount of contact during practice and games that other team sports don’t have.Football has multiple requirements. Add the speed and movement factors involved and movement becomes challenging. Good movement positioning and control is the backbone of performance. What makes for an outstanding performance is not solely the level of an athlete’s skill but the level of movement skills that accompany the athlete’s natural ability. Every athlete on your team can and should strive to develop quality movement skills. Here’s how:Multi-Dimensional Movement and FootballThe key to this topic, multi–dimensional speed, can be directed toward the specifics of movement for any given sport. That being said, we must not buy into the

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