Due to the requests on the forum, here's the entire lecture of the snippet I posted earlier from Dan Pfaff's horizontal jumps talk in Las Vegas. Special thanks to Tom Kaberna for sending me a non High-Def version of this video that was small enough that I could actually upload the entire thing for viewing. [...]

Here's another video from Coach Pfaff. This one's another from the HPC ELITETRACK Gold Medal Track Clinic. It's about training elite pole vaulters. Although Dan is known more for his sprint coaching pupils, he has also coached plenty of elite pole vaulters, most recently coaching Brad Walker to an American Record last year. One of the things that sets Dan apart from some of his fellow pole vaul [...]

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. To help fight off post-Christmas depression, here's my last Pfaff lecture snippet from the USATF National Podium Project. (at least until I get back from visiting my family in NY that is). As with the other lectures, you'll find that although this one was given to throwers much of the talk actually remains the same and is generalizable to a wide range of ev [...]

Here's another 5 minute clip from Dan Pfaff from the National Podium Education Project in Las Vegas. This talk was on absolute strength and power development for world class horizontal jumpers. As you may be able to tell, Pfaff is a generalist and many of the themes that he uses for coaching one event group are used in what may appear to be very different event groups. Enjoy. [...]

For those of you who have never had the opportunity to learn from Coach Pfaff you are missing out. He is one of the most well-rounded coaches in the world and his expertise covers not only a variety of events in track and field but also a wide variety of disciplines. Here's a 5 minute snippet from one of his lectures at the recent 2008 National Podium Project in Las Vegas. I taped 3 lectures and [...]

HPC is putting together a world class clinic at the Track & Field Olympic Trials in Eugene on July 1, 2008. We are still in the process of finalizing the details but Dan Pfaff, Boo Schexnayder, and Larry Judge have already agreed to speak. See details here and pre-register today. [...]

Recently, I had a discussion about tapering sprinters before a big meet with a friend and fellow coach. Our training volumes and workouts were very similar leading up until the last two weeks until conference. It was in these last two weeks that we begun to have differing opinions. I was leaning towards a taper the week prior to conference and he was leaning towards tapering the week of conference [...]

Good friend and frequent elitetrack contributor, Kebba Tolbert,  will be hosting a clinic on March 2nd - March 3rd here in Portland, Oregon with Dan Pfaff and Tom Tellez. It should be an exciting day and half. [...]

Carl,Did USATF bring up the Weyand study at this particular seminar? I would imagine that this topic makes them feel uncomfortable...since they have been a proponent of faster turnover, A and B skips, dorsi-flexion, etc. Xavier Carter proved this falsehood in the NCAA finals. "Everyone" was turning over faster than he was, but for some reason he kept pulling away from everyone? Hmmm I be [...]

Sorry for the delayed follow-up. Harrisonburg, VA- What abummer. The USATF Coaches Ed school sure was a waste of time. Here Iwas expecting big things and the whole thing turned out to be a dud. JUST KIDDING!!! The school in general and the Level 3 in particular lived up to all the hype. How could it not?Here are some notes I took from two of the lectures Dan gave at the Level 3 school:DAN PFAFF on [...]