Sports
What we evaluate — and why it matters.
We bring lab-grade assessment to your club, built around each sport's physiological demands and each age group's stage of development. Test day is where the data starts; the platform is where it becomes decisions.
11
physical qualities assessed
3
age bands, U10 to U18
100%
cited to source
What we measure — and why
Different sports demand different qualities. Different ages demand different protocols.
These are the physical qualities that feed an athlete's profile — each one earning its place from peer-reviewed evidence. Pick a sport and an age group, then open a quality to see why it matters and how we establish it.
Growth is fastest — and messiest — here. Two teammates the same age can be years apart biologically, which is exactly when chronological-age comparison misleads the most. The battery expands: more jump types, repeated sprints, change of direction. And every number is read against PHV-adjusted norms.
Why it matters
Most contested balls are decided inside the first few steps. By the top of the youth pathway the differences that matter here are hundredths of a second, which is well beyond what a stopwatch can honestly resolve.
How we establish it
Photocell-timed sprints over the opening metres, so a change between assessments is a real change rather than a timing artefact.
Parpa & Michaillidis 2022 · Sellami et al. 2024
Why it matters
Acceleration, transition and maximum velocity are separate qualities that respond to different training. A single sprint time hides which of them is actually limiting an athlete.
How we establish it
Split timing every five metres across the full run, producing a speed signature rather than one number.
Portella et al. 2023
Why it matters
Explosive leg power sits under jumping, sprinting and duels. Separating concentric power from the elastic and reactive contribution shows which part is trainable right now.
How we establish it
A jump battery covering vertical and horizontal output, with and without a countermovement, and each leg independently.
Dugdale et al. 2019 · Sellami et al. 2024 · Brooks 2026
Why it matters
Strength is the foundation under every sprint and jump. Rate of force development matters as much as the peak: football rarely allows a long, slow push.
How we establish it
An isometric pull measured on a force plate — a maximal output without asking a growing athlete for a maximal lift.
Morris et al. 2020
Why it matters
Turning is where matches are won and where a lot of knees are injured. The difference between an athlete's two legs is often the single most useful line in their report.
How we establish it
Timed direction changes planted off each leg, plus the same course run with and without the ball to separate athleticism from skill at speed.
Dugdale et al. 2019 · Becera et al. 2025 · Sellami et al. 2024
Why it matters
Scouts watch the first sprint; coaches live with the tenth. An athlete who is quick once and slow thereafter is a different selection decision from one who holds their speed.
How we establish it
Repeated maximal sprints with controlled recovery, tracking how much speed is lost across the set.
Selmi et al. 2020 · Yamak & Imamoglu 2019
Why it matters
Match football is intermittent, so the relevant capacity is the one that recovers between efforts rather than a steady-state number. Held constant year on year, an athlete's endurance curve says more than any single test day.
How we establish it
Standardised intermittent shuttle protocols, kept identical between assessments so results stay comparable over years.
Bendiksen et al. 2013 · Schmitz et al. 2019 · Portella et al. 2023
Why it matters
Side-to-side gaps and poor landing control are early and modifiable signals. Before the growth spurt they are worth monitoring; after it, they stop being growing pains and become training targets.
How we establish it
Single-leg jump comparisons, dynamic balance reach, and how quickly the body settles after landing.
Scinicarelli et al. 2022 · Pau et al. 2019 · García-Massó et al. 2019
Why it matters
Elite athleticism with a mediocre skill index is a player who loses the ball at speed. Scoring technique on a standardised protocol makes it comparable between athletes, squads and countries.
How we establish it
Timed dribbling with and without the ball, a standardised passing protocol, and shooting scored for both accuracy and execution time.
Le Moal et al. 2014 · Matta et al. 2014
Why it matters
Two athletes of the same age can be years apart biologically. Without an estimate of maturity, every other comparison quietly rewards early developers and overlooks late ones.
How we establish it
Height, weight and body composition tracked over time, with each athlete's years from peak height velocity estimated so results can be read against biological rather than chronological peers.
Mirwald et al. 2002
Why it matters
How capable a young athlete believes they are predicts whether they stay in sport at all. When self-belief and physical data point in different directions, that is a conversation worth having early.
How we establish it
A short standardised self-perception questionnaire, repeated across assessments so the trend carries the meaning rather than any one score.
Duncan et al. 2022
11 qualities assessed at U14 · every one cited to source
After test day
The measurements are minutes. The value is the years after.
Analysed
Results become percentiles against international norms — by sex, age group and biological maturation.
The methodology →Interpreted
Strengths, gaps and real change (never session noise) — explained in plain language on every chart.
How the platform works →Monitored
Every re-test extends the athlete's longitudinal record: the same tests, seasons apart, draw a real development curve.
Bring the battery to your club.
Soccer is live today; basketball, volleyball and handball batteries are in development. We come to you — equipment, protocol and reports included.
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