Ultrax Science Hub Blogs

Explore conversations with leading coaches, scientists, and performance experts as they share practical insights, latest research, and real-world applications in elite sports.

Introduction: Why Jumps Tell a Bigger Story  In football, explosive power and braking ability are...

Introduction: The Underrated Skill That Wins Games  In the world of high-performance sport, we often...

Introduction The development of potential within a multi club enviroment requires a structured, long-term vision...

Introduction Technique in football refers to a player’s ability to perform specific movements with the...

This week is full of high-level football education: three days with UEFA Pro lecturers, followed...

In high-performance football, monitoring player responses to matches is essential for managing load, guiding recovery,...

In the past three blogs, we explored the role of VALD technology in football, from...

Source: Journal of Athletic Performance and Sports Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024), pp. 34–43...

In this article, we introduce a quadrant model that leverages two key force-time metrics from...

Welcome back! In the last two parts of this series (https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/using-vald-technology-footballpart2-preseason-jump-marko-matušinskij-opdqf/?trackingId=RGOw4GYRTdahSzj2sPIbkg%3D%3D), I talked about the...

The first part highlighted how VALD technology, such as force plates and the Nordboard, helps...

So, you have this athlete who is very fast at accelerating, but when it comes...

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