The SpeedCourt: Reliability, Usefulness, and Validity of a New Method to Determine Change-of-Direction Speed

Peter Düking1, Dennis-Peter Born, Billy Sperlich

  • 1Inst for Sport Sciences, Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.

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