Contents
- What it measures
- Agility
- Effort
- Short or sub-maximal
- Duration
- about 15 min for a group
- Equipment
- cones, stopwatch or phone
Set-up
A turning line, a timing line 5 m before it, and a start line 10 m before the timing line.
How to run it
Run in from the start, sprint through the timing line, turn 180° on the turning line and sprint back through the timing line. Only the 5 m out and back are timed. Test the turn on each foot.
What to record
The best time for each turning foot, in seconds.
By age
- Under 10 Playful challenge
- 10 to 12 Offered
- 13 to 15 Offered
- 16 and over Offered
Everywhere: no ranking of children, no public results, no selection from results. Under 16: parental consent and the child's own agreement. A health check before any maximal test, and stop if you feel unwell.
Reading the result
- Compare the athlete with themselves: same protocol, same surface, same measuring method. Paak publishes no age norms.
- No published retest figure: a small change may simply be day-to-day variation.
- Timing: a hand-held stopwatch reads about 0.2 s faster than timing gates, and experience does not fix it. Never compare a hand time with an electronic one.
On the test day
On the test day this test comes in position 6 of 13: short tests first, maximal efforts last, after about 5 minutes of rest (athletic test manual of the Deutscher Fechter-Bund and IAT Leipzig, 2023).
Dashed border: maximal effort. Gold: this test.
Before: Agility T-test After: Handgrip strength The field tests guide