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Description: This research study is a replication study that will contribute to a large-scale international replication project in sports and exercise science whose overall aim is: To produce high level systematic and transparent replication trials of experimental trials published within the last five years in top tier sports and exercise science journals using a randomized, unbiased selection method. Large scale replication projects have been undertaken by, among others, the Open Science Collaboration in the form of the Reproducibility Project in Psychology and the Many Labs Project (Klein et al., 2014; Open Science Collaboration, 2015). These projects ignited the debate on the replication crisis in social science due to their difficulty in replicating selected effects and the variability in results. One goal of replication is to bolster our collective confidence in the veracity of novel claims by providing diagnostic evidence about those claims (Nosek et al., 2015; Nosek and Errington, 2020) when the original and replication study are similar in all “theoretically relevant dimensions” such as study design, methods, and materials (Earp, 2020, p. 120). Given the interdisciplinary nature of the sports science field and the overlap with the psychological sciences, there is reason to believe the sports science field faces similar replication issues (Caldwell et al., 2020). The replicability of sports science research has yet to be examined despite the identification of concerns within the field (Halperin et al., 2018; Heneghan et al., 2012; Knudson, 2017). As a result, the overall goal of this project is to sample a range of topics in an unbiased manner across the field of sports science for an initial estimation of the replicability of those findings. This is the first natural step in the assessment of replicability of the field, therefore, the project will attempt to replicate numerous effects once rather than multiple replications of a specific effect or theory. As it is essential to run multiple independent experiments to determine if findings in sports science have a consistent and accurate pattern, and are strongly supported (Earp and Trafimow, 2015), the proposed study is one of many studies to be replicated. The objective of this specific proposed study is to replicate (i.e. repeat) the work of Komsak Sinsurin, Sarun Srisangboriboon, and Roongtiwa Vachalathiti published in the Europen Journal of Sports Sciences in 2017 titled “Side-to-side differences in lower extremity biomechanics during multi-directional jump landing in volleyball athletes”. 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