1. Important factors influencing those components: Speed: Muscle endurance can be affected by age, gender, limb and muscle strength and joint of tendon insertion. Flexibility can be affected by age, joint structure, muscle mass, skeletal structure, genetics, muscle endurance and muscle type. Power can be affected by size of the muscle. Agility: change of direction can be affected by leg strength, primary eccentric strength in the knee, extensors, hip adductors and plantar flexors. Reflexes can be affected by age, gender and physical fatigue. Coordination is affected by experience, poor visual skills and movement execution. Quickness: reaction time can be affected by age, gender, poor visual skills and physical fatigue.
2. Definitions: Speed is the ability to move the body on one direction as fast as possible. Agility is the ability to accelerate, decelerate, stabilize and quickly change directions with proper posture. Quickness is the ability to react and change body with a maximum rate of force production
3. Components: Speed- strength, power, flexibility, muscle endurance and technique. Agility- quick reflexes, coordination, balance, speed, footwork and change of direction. Quickness- reaction time, reflexes and direction
4. Relation of body mechanics with these components: Good body mechanics helps in the interaction of muscles, bones and joints. The importance of good mechanics would be that muscles lengthen and shortens which then act as lever and produces force to bones and muscles. When not done properly, it can cause bad technique and lead to bone and joint instability. This can also lead to injury when technique is incorrect. When muscles are weak and inflexible it can lead to deviations in joint mechanics and cause injury.
5. Influence of balance on those components: Balance can affect agility and explosive power. A study conducted on males and females go on a balance program and it was found that after 6 weeks of balancing training that there has been a significant improvement in their agility and explosive power.
6. Relation of motor learning with these components: when looking at motor learning with speed, agility and quickness. It should be fairly simple to learn these movements. These movements are gross motor skills and are quicker to be learned compared to fine motor skills
