Mike Young did a great interview with Andreas a while ago, and I wanted to get more into detail about why I believe Andreas will be one of the new blood that will trickle down to new coaches. He is perhaps one of the most generous coaches in sharing, and he deserves all the accolades he gets now. He has paid his dues and I am one of his fans. I looked at some of the questions and can only comment [...]

I am approaching 15 years of coaching, or about a quarter of the way through my journey as a person who enjoys being part of sport. I am not a guru or even a collegiate super coach, but just a guy who is seeking the truth. At times the truth was rather humbling and now it's more exciting because it's about the relationship, not just the accolades. Unfortunately the process of getting better has [...]

Movement is quite simple and from that wonderful simplicity comes the complexity of sports skill and performance. Twenty-five years ago in an attempt to better explain movement and how we should effectively train movement I came up with this simple diagram I call the Performance Paradigm. It was somewhat like what Albert Szent-Gyorgi, once said, “Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else h [...]

I didn't get to make it to the Central Virginia seminar but much of the speaker notes are available online right not so people can see what might be at BSMPG this May and what may be talked about next year. With all of the player tracking nonsense I see on twitter, it's important to create a foundation of what is real and what is coach candy, cool stuff that has very little impact in the game. P [...]

On Monday morning, April 15th, 2013, the Boston University Track and Field Team practiced during the hours of 10AM and 12PM. It’s been team tradition that on days when classes are not in session, whether it is on Saturdays or holidays, we practice at 10AM. Marathon Monday is no different to us. We remind ourselves that our competitors don’t take the day off for Marathon Monday, so why shoul [...]

"...Like when he huddled with Beckett and told the righty that putting too much weight on the toes of his back foot causes him to lean toward third, witches forces him to throw back across his body and miss outside."-ESPN the Magazine on Sandy KoufaxIn 1987 technology in pressure profiling the foot was started to reduce injuries, based on the innovations in 1977 with Nicol. Fast forward to 2009, [...]

With some discussion on the first hurdle creating some interesting discussion, of lot of conclusions and misconceptions are based on incomplete information. Race data with video interpretation and athlete feedback is necessary to get the full picture. What we can conclude is that world class touchdown times from hurdlers is far different than first ten meters with regular athletes, such as NFL ath [...]

No clever blog title, just the man. I have been reading and following Benke for a while now and his presentation on Hurdles a few years ago was excellent. Like most coaches, sometimes we are force to reread the good materials over and over getting each drop of knowledge to problem solve things. Right now I have mixed feelings about the seven or eight step discussion because we don't have the data [...]

One of the benefits of never being a jumper in track and field is the healthy insecurity of learning from smarter and more experienced coaches instead of being overconfident. I have found that the legends of our sport and sport science is invaluable to make progress. Another angle of acceleration I looked at was some of the ideas of Daniel Andrews and the 7 step trends I am seeing in hurdling. Las [...]

Four years ago the Berlin studies on the Triple and Long Jump events were masterpieces of practical analysis. Each study showed key performance indicators with Dartfish Strobmotion and reviewed running velocities for each of the jumpers. It was great to see the speed of each foot strike because the center of mass is not constant and each step counts. I use distances and velocities as I will always [...]