Looking forward to presenting at this one in the summer. Always a great conference, not many youth specific conferences around, so if you have an interest in LTAD, make sure you book on!

Looking forward to heading to Carlow in May for the Maximising Human Potential event. Excited to present the latest research from Youth Physical Development Centre 🤸🏋🏼‍♂️

Next week Cardiff Metropolitan University we have postgraduate information sessions, where potential students can join online to learn more about the courses we offer. The MSc Youth Athletic Development presentation is on Friday 23rd Feb at 9am, book onto it here...

cardiffmet.ac.uk/study/opendays…

Great to spend time Marby Sports Academy with Paul Larkin, Gyan Wijekulasuriya and the rest of the staff over the past week.

Been awesome to see the programme in action, and chat future projects with the team. Superb set up there!

Congratulations to Ben, Kiana, Maddie and Jonathan; our high-performing Cardiff Met SCRAM S&C students who have been awarded complimentary student memberships for the NSCA 👏👏 🥇

We are offering after-school S&C sessions to young people that are interested. New block starts 16th October. See poster below and link to book on…

estore.cardiffmet.ac.uk/short-courses/…

We are looking for females between 7-17 years to participate in a study Cardiff Metropolitan University. Please see the poster below and get in touch if interested. Please share and RT!

Massive honour to be awarded S&C coach of the year for youth sport at the UKSCA conference. Thanks to all coaches Youth Physical Development Centre for the support over the years - Steph Morris Sylvia Moeskops, PhD Tom Mathews Dr Jason Pedley and our esteemed leaders Rhodri S. Lloyd🎗 and Jon Oliver

Fantastic to see one of our YPD coaches running a practical session at UKSCA conference this year. Really fun session to take part in, so come along! #LTAD

Processing ground reaction forces for a drop jump? We’ve got you!
New output from Dr Jason Pedley and the team.
Catch his drop jump talk NSCA NatCon- what to measure, what it means and what to do with it.
Paper journals.lww.com/nsca-scj/Abstr…
Video tutorial cdn-links.lww.com/permalink/scj/…

PARTICIPANTS WANTED! 📣
Looking for female athletes between the age of 7-17 years for my PhD study to understand the changes in biomechanics during jump landing tasks across various maturity levels. If interested, please get in touch!
Rhodri S. Lloyd🎗 Sylvia Moeskops, PhD Dr Jason Pedley

Great to see Steph Morris from the YPD Centre contributing to the NSCA position statement on weightlifting for sports performance. This will be a highly influential paper for many coaches. Cardiff School of Sport & Health Sciences CardiffMet CSSHS R&I

Two of our YPD coaches, Steph Morris and Sylvia Moeskops, PhD, are presenting at the PLAE conference this year. See the link below for info…

events.plae.global/PLAE-LABS-Loug…

Great to be able to support these girls with S&C. Hopefully the start of a successful partnership!