%0 Journal Article %T Discriminating motilities: Coordinating IFT with flagellar beating patterns. %A Alves AA %A Bastin P %J J Cell Biol %V 223 %N 9 %D 2024 Sep 2 %M 39110193 %F 8.077 %R 10.1083/jcb.202407060 %X Intraflagellar transport has traditionally been studied in immobilized flagella. In this issue, Gray et al. (https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.202401154) introduced a novel methodology for fast imaging in free-swimming Leishmania, revealing the impacts of flagellum immobilization on intraflagellar transport and its inverse correlation with cell swimming speed.