Fig. 1

A schematic of the agility tests. The system includes an RFID reader for athlete tag recognition, electronic gates equipped with a photocell (C), an infrared transmitter and light reflector (R), and a smart jump mat (MAT) integrated with a photocell. The software records movement times during the runs. Participants perform five runs to designated gates, each time starting and returning to the smart jump mat, following a preplanned route for the CODS with gate order 1-5-2-4-3 and a random sequence for the RA