What is agility in Sport?

Answer 1

Agility refers to the ability to change direction rapidly, accelerate, or decelerate. Balance, strength, coordination, and skill level affect it. Strength and conditioning should be developed appropriately for the athlete's level of difficulty in order to improve agility.

Answer 2

Agility would be the ability keep on your feet, in a sense. Like foot work. It's not exactly balance, but it is the gracefulness of a person in any type of sport. So, not the person is always tripping up, but the person who knows how to stay on their feet, but can fall when the time comes.

Answer 3

Agility is the ability to change the direction of the body in an efficient and effective manner and to achieve this you require a combination of:

• Balance
  • The ability to maintain equilibrium when stationary or moving (i.e. not to fall over) through the coordinated actions of our sensory functions (eyes, ears and the proprioceptive organs in our joints)
  • Static Balance - ability to retain the centre of mass above the base of support in a stationary position
  • Dynamic Balance - ability to maintain balance with body movement
• Speed
  • the ability to move all or part of the body quickly
• Strength
  • the ability of a muscle or muscle group to overcome a resistance
• Co-ordination
  • the ability to control the movement of the body in co-operation with the body's sensory functions e.g. catching a ball (ball, hand and eye co-ordination)