What’s the most common misconception you see when it comes to agility training?

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Shawn Mysker Movement & Skill Acquisition Specialist, Emergence

In my opinion, over the last 10-15 years, agility training across the field has improved dramatically. More coaches are beginning to understand what separates true agility (and the training of it) from other qualities (i.e., change-of-direction) needed for sport performance. Yet, for as far as we have come, there are still too many that choose to train agility by throwing down some sort of obstacle course of training tools (e.g., c...

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