Having established that agility and CODS are specific skills, the critical question that
follows is which of these skills is more important for performance? This issue can be
addressed by comparing higher- and lower-standard groups of athletes. If a superior-skilled
group is better on a particular test, the quality assessed by that test can be said to be important
for performance in the sport [21]. Conversely, if a higher-level group is not better on a test,
the quality assessed by that test would appear to have little relevance to superior sports
performance. Using such a research-design, several studies have shown the higher-skilled
group to be superior (p0.05) in a CODS test in Australian
football [15, 16, 22] and rugby league [11, 19]. These results clearly indicate that agility is
more related to performance in these invasion sports than CODS tests, and provides evidence
for the importance of the perceptual and decision-making element of agility.
Having established that agility and CODS are specific skills, the critical question thatfollows is which of these skills is more important for performance? This issue can beaddressed by comparing higher- and lower-standard groups of athletes. If a superior-skilledgroup is better on a particular test, the quality assessed by that test can be said to be importantfor performance in the sport [21]. Conversely, if a higher-level group is not better on a test,the quality assessed by that test would appear to have little relevance to superior sportsperformance. Using such a research-design, several studies have shown the higher-skilledgroup to be superior (p<0.05) in an agility test but not (p>0.05) in a CODS test in Australianfootball [15, 16, 22] and rugby league [11, 19]. These results clearly indicate that agility ismore related to performance in these invasion sports than CODS tests, and provides evidencefor the importance of the perceptual and decision-making element of agility.
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