Improving change of direction ability, deceleration drills and coaching “transitional movements”

“Deceleration is the inverse of acceleration, and if you forget that, the whole sequence breaks down.” In episode #446 of the Pacey Performance Podcast, Rob sits down with Hailu Theodros to strip deceleration back to what matters in the real world. The conversation moves from how you assess braking across different change of direction angles, to why athletes get stuck “in the hole” during 180 turns, to the practical coaching levers that clean it up. It finishes by reframing transitional movements as the missing connectors between linear speed, braking, and change of direction, especially when ...