The lateral countermovement jump test: The missing piece in your basketball testing battery?

1. What is missing from basketball's testing batteries? Most force plate and motion capture assessments at the highest level of team sport place a heavy emphasis on sagittal plane movements, particularly vertical force outputs and their derivatives, which have been widely studied in biomechanics research [1]. There are several reasons behind this, but in recent years, a primary contributing factor is the proliferation of single-axis force platforms. Overall, this is a positive development for the field. In basketball circles, the bilateral countermovement jump (CMJ) is the most ubiquitous asse...