Step 1
Performance assessment
Objective testing using elite sports performance technology.
Independent athlete testing · On your pitch
The eye test cannot see 8%.
A coach watching that jump sees one athlete. Two force plates sampling a thousand times a second see two legs doing different amounts of work. We measure the difference, three times a season, where you already train.
Assessment battery
Countermovement jump
Athlete 0413 · sample
Right186.2 N·s
Left171.3 N·s
Asymmetry8.0%
Concentric impulse, as a share of the stronger limb
Instrumented, independent, and on your pitch
Those three things already exist separately. Putting them in one session is the whole business.
Force plates are not rare any more. What is rare is getting them to a squad. The places that own good instruments want the athlete to come to them, one at a time, by appointment.
The services that do come to your academy and test everybody arrive with a stopwatch, a tape measure and a posture scan, and leave you a report built on none of the things that actually predict how an athlete moves.
And the academies that have bought their own plates run their own teams, so no rival academy is ever going to hand them a squad's data.
TIPS has no team to pick from. We bring the instruments to your pitch, test the squad in an afternoon, and give the data back to you.
Structured strength development
Block 02
CH.02Development system
The TIPS development system
Five steps. Repeated every season, so progress is never assumed.
Step 2
Performance analysis
Identify movement asymmetries, force production profiles, strength deficits and opportunities for athletic improvement.
Step 3
Development blueprint
Every athlete receives a personalized development plan based on objective performance data.
Step 4
Performance training
Structured athletic development designed around each player's performance profile.
Step 5
Re-test
Measure progress. Track development. Update the program. Continue improving throughout the season.
CH.03Service parameters
3
Seasonal assessments
48Hours
Reporting turnaround
1000Hz
Force sampling rate
Both limbs
Measured separately, every test
CH.04Instrumentation
Three systems, three different questions
Owning the instruments is not the hard part any more. Knowing which question each one can actually answer is.
ForceDecks
How much force, and from which leg? Two plates, a thousand samples a second. One plate would give a total; two give a left and a right, which is the only reason the gap is visible at all.
Timing Gates
Where in the run is it lost? Splits over ten metres turn one sprint into several answers. A stopwatch has a human reaction time inside it; gates do not, which is why hundredths mean something here.
ForceFrame
Is the strength there when the jump is taken away? Isometric testing removes technique and momentum from the result. What is left is force, hip and knee, side against side.
Every assessment combines force production, strength profiling and speed analysis to create a complete picture of athletic performance.
CH.05Limits of the method
Four things we will not tell you
Every one of these is for sale somewhere in this market. None of them survives contact with the evidence, so none of them appears in a TIPS report.
01
That a test predicts who gets hurt
It does not, and this has been studied hard enough to stop asking. Screening sorts a squad into groups that overlap almost completely. Anyone selling you a risk score is selling the score.
02
That 10% asymmetry is a red flag
A fixed threshold ignores how much the measurement itself moves between days. In youth athletes that variation can be wider than the threshold, so the rule flags noise and misses real change.
03
That one test day means anything
A single assessment is a dot. Development is the line between three of them, which is why the season carries three and the report always shows the previous two.
04
That the number is the athlete
Between 13 and 17, maturity moves force output more than training does. We record biological maturity alongside every result, because a percentile against chronological age is close to meaningless at these ages.
We don't predict. We measure what changed.
No test in sports science reliably tells you which athlete will break down, and the studies that looked hardest for one found that most clearly. It is a smaller claim than the market usually makes.
What measurement does do is tell you where an athlete produces force, how evenly the two sides share it, and whether any of that moved since the last assessment. That claim holds, and it is enough to train on.
›Measured the same way every time
›Reported with its own margin of error
›Compared only against the athlete's own history
From the people using the data
Coach
We stopped arguing about who looked sharp. The re-test told us who actually was.
First Team Coach
Player
The plates showed my left leg was doing less work. Twelve weeks later it wasn't.
U18 Midfielder
Parent
Three times a season I get a report I can actually read, and I know where he stands.
Parent, U16 squad
Academy Director
Testing day used to cost us a session. Now it costs us forty minutes.
Academy Director
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