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In the past three blogs, we explored the role of VALD technology in football, from jumping…
Source: Journal of Athletic Performance and Sports Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2024), pp. 34–43 Why…
In this article, we introduce a quadrant model that leverages two key force-time metrics from countermovement…
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 countermovement…
The first part highlighted how VALD technology, such as force plates and the Nordboard, helps us…
So, you have this athlete who is very fast at accelerating, but when it comes to…