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 [...]

"Aries Merritt reminds me of Paul Desmond, of the Dave Brubeck days. Light, airy, shy, with a certain creativeness tinged with humor."-Brooks JohnsonThe Brooks Johnson blog is a good read, and sometimes he covers through observation, some wonderful analogies and visual summaries. I was listening to one "speaker" one weekend and he explained that sometimes substance in the style. We often think [...]

"...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 [...]

With the seven or eight steps being the talk in hurdle circles, the question is what performance in the 1980s to 2000s had the fastest first hurdle ever? Talking to PJ Vazel it seems on record the fastest was Mark McKoy in 1992 while running in Barcelona. Two people such as Mark Crear and Dayron Robles have run close (2.47) but 2.46 is so far the best documented performance. I personally believe [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It's no mystery I am not afraid to ask questions to those better than myself. This weekend I asked a few questions to Boo Schexnayder, on of the top jump coaches in the world. Each year I get hidden gems when I ask the same basic questions, as experience and wisdom drills down deeper. Two questions that I will address are details of circuit training and running velocities specific to triple jump [...]

As the 7 or 8 step controversy continues, I wanted to avoid that discussion until I have information to make a good decision on what I believe on who should do what. Direct Linear Transformation data from Pablo Gonzalez is interesting, since we can now look at pattens of how the three unique steps are behaving among multiple athletes and between men and women. Nothing earth shattering, but the ni [...]

I wrote a Key Performance Indicators for the 110m hurdles because touchdowns were done with the eyeballs or painfully done via slow motion and manual software support. How is Andreas and other coaches going to get people in the 12.7s in the future? I predicted 12.80-12.85 in March and I was thrilled to see a monster performance by Merrit. If one looks at the tables by a few websites, note no touch [...]