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Agility Demands Of Gaelic Football Match-Play: A Time-Motion Analysis, Paul F. Talty, Kevin Mcguigan, Mark Quinn, Paul A. Jones
Agility Demands Of Gaelic Football Match-Play: A Time-Motion Analysis, Paul F. Talty, Kevin Mcguigan, Mark Quinn, Paul A. Jones
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Research into the physical demands of Gaelic football is limited with no research into the agility or change of direction (CoD) demands of the sport. This study examined the CoD demands of Gaelic football via a time-motion analysis of senior inter-county match play. The Bloomfield movement classification (BMC) was adapted for application to Gaelic football. A new “descriptor” was used in an effort to account for the decision-making component of agility by isolating actions that occurred during active engagement with play. Of 1,899 changes of direction (CoDs) identified, 1,035 occurred during active engagement in play. The left/right split for CoDs …