08/14/2026
THE POINT DRILL 🎯
One of my favorite drills for developing reactive agility.
The athlete starts in front of me while I point in one of 6 directions:
- Forward
- Back
- Left
- Right
- Diagonally Left
- Diagonally Right
The goal isn’t to memorize a movement pattern.
It’s to see → react → decide → move.
That’s important because agility in sport isn’t just about how fast you can change direction when you already know where you’re going.
It’s about your ability to perceive a stimulus, make a decision, and rapidly execute the movement.
That’s why this can be useful for athletes in sports like tennis, soccer, basketball, football, lacrosse, and more.
Research supports incorporating perception-action demands into agility training, with recent meta-analysis showing meaningful improvements in reactive-agility performance following agility-specific training. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41710443/
Train the reaction, not just the movement.