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#116: Gill1918 presents Zontavious Johnson "Coaching the Short and Long Hurdles Part 2" · The Gill Athletics Track and Field Connections Podcast

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  What that's what we'll say that that's not discounted.
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  That's that's I, I rarely have ever, and I'm going to talk
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  about that in a second, but I rarely have ever discount huddle
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  one. If I do, it's probably at 12.8.
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  But other than that, we keep it at 13.
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  We normally keep it at 13 and normal height.
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  Everything else is discounted and lower.
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  If you see her, she's nice and tight to the hurdle.
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  She does a really good job. So I'll, I'll point, I'll point
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  out a couple things. This is 2 meters from the
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  hurdles. This is 1.6 from the hurdle.
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  So we want to land, you see how far she land.
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  We want to land somewhere near this hurdle.
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  Kayla gets away with it because she is fast.
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  Kayla McCall was a 1177 high school 100m runner.
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  And then she went out to college and a whole lot of life
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  happened. And then she found her way back
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  to Olivet Nazarene 2 years ago. And so the last year and a half
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  we've been getting speed back. She gets away with a lot of
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  stuff that an average her little will not get away with.
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  She's really strong. She's really fast and she has a
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  really fast lead in trouble. And so she'll get away with
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  being a little bit farther because she don't she understand
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  how to cut her steps better. One second.
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  Hold on. He he had it.
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  Yeah. In the same position that you're
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  saying she's going on with. Great.
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  So you'll be sitting. So when I talk about her being
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  tall, when she planted, she she was right here, right?
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  If she's sitting, she's going to look like this.
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  So it's like she's kind of loading up.
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  But it also means she took a longer stepping out of short
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  step. Even with long jump, you don't
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  really want to sit. You want to kind of pin ultimate
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  and and ride the board, right? So here the difference is we
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  know we're still going. I mean, long jump, you're
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  trying, you're trying to get height here.
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  We're just trying to go forward. And so that's why it's more
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  important with also with long jump, once you hit the board,
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  you punch up. We're not punching up.
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  She's leading with her knee going this way, right?
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  And she does a really good job of getting her foot.
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  Once her hips get to hurdle height, that lead leg unfolds.
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  And as soon as her heel crosses there, she's back down to the
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  ground. Like that's the biggest thing
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  we're talking about getting off the huddle quick.
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  One of the cues that I use is once your heel is even with the
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  hurdle, get it to the ground, get that heel to the ground.
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  Because no matter how many trail drills you do, I've never seen a
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  kid get their foot to the ground and they show leg don't fall.
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  The quicker we get this motion here, the quicker that legs on
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  the follow foot, right? And so they're all connected
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  together. And once we get kids to
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  understand that, then it makes it a little bit easier, which is
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  why I don't like doing a lot of journaling.
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  I like it. I like live action hurdling over
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  1-2 and three hurdles. And so we can video it.
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  We video everything. I have an iPad in my son's room
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  because he keeps confiscating because he's not.
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  And he likes to watch Fortnite and everything else that's full
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  of just Olivet track videos. And I've only been there for
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  three seasons. Like when I say fool, it's like
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  probably that thing has 300 gigabytes.
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  It's probably got 200 and some gigabytes of just hurdle videos
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  on it and and Sprint videos because we video everything.
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  Days of the 100 powerful start take off Foster again.
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  We want to hit the ground and go landing.
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  We want to be quick to the ground and off the ground.
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  We want to create a three-step rhythm in between the hurdle.
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  Again, that's a fast three-step. How do we do that when we fight
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  this, when I coach hurdles, we never practice huddling at the
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  normal distance. That's one.
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  If we are for the women, we start early fall at 7:50.
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  Then we work our way up. Right now the women are at
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  around 8 meters, 805 in between huddles Right now, about 3 weeks
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  out from from our first was really, really.
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  Next week the women will move to 830 and they'll stay at 8:30
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  through the whole season. They will never touch 850 in a
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  practice. We always want them thinking and
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  moving fast. So we create that fast rhythm.
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  How do we make sure we do that? Again, we condense everything.
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  We mix in five step rhythm, We mix in three-step rhythms and we
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  film and we split everything. We can go to the next slide.
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  So again, some of the same things.
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  You're going to see a lot of me repeating the same thing because
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  these are the, these are the parameters that we use posture
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  and stability. I want to be nice and tall.
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  I want my hips high. I want my pelvis and my
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  shoulders facing this or when I hurdle, meaning if I'm going to
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  hurdle, I got to go my way. I used to be a component of kids
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  reading and watch. Well, the problem with that is
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  kids don't know how to stop by here because they have no
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  coordination. They, they do this and the arm
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  go way over here. And what happens if I'm hurdling
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  this way? Now as I come down, my shoulders
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  are facing this way, which means I got to turn here to go
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  forward. So now we take that lead on and
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  they must punch that, that hand to their toe.
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  Now again, if I have a kid that does this and we're fine, we
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  leave it. If you're a kid to do this or a
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  kid to do this, hand has to go to your toe.
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  It has to like I don't, I don't allow athletes to well, I can't
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  do it. Well, you can't be a hurdler
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  because these are the demands of the event.
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  If you're going to hurdle, these are the demands of the event.
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  So we're going to give you the drills, We're going to wrap it,
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  and we're going to wrap it and we're going to wrap it.
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  And if you can't understand that, guess what?
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  There are other events in track and field.
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  We're going to put you somewhere else because I'm not going to
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  put you on the track just to appease you, your parents or
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  whomever and have you look bad. I don't do public embarrassment,
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  so I'm not going to put you out there to do public embarrassment
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  or to get hurt. So I'm not that coach that says,
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  hey, we'll just let them go try it.
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  No, we're not. If we can't do it in practice,
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  we're not doing that. To me, it's it's just that
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  simple. She could have tested this on
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  the high school level with me. She coached with me there.
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  I'm they coached with me on the club level.
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  I am that way. Parents don't like it.
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  We can have a conversation about it.
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  I can explain that to you. After that, God bless you.
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  This is what we're doing. Progression again, 12/8 to 13
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  minutes. I'd say high schoolers, high
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  school coaches, because you have a shorter season.
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  I would start my young ladies out at around 780 and progress
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  to 8:30. Again, I start mine out at 7:50
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  because they we got a long season.
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  We literally, we literally are in season from September to May.
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  So we have a longer time to play with high school Illinois, you
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  guys are January to to May. If you're a club coach, probably
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  October to May, right? Got a little bit of time to play
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  with me. On the other hand, again, as a
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  high school, as a college coach, I get the kind of recruit who I
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  want, but I'm also at an AI school, so I also take what I
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  can get sometimes, right again, so I have three nine step, four
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  step young ladies. I took them and signed them
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  because I watched their video and was like, why are we doing
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  this? And then when I talked to their
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  coaches, oh I know why y'all doing this because your coach
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  told you to do it. OK, cool, let's see if we can
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  change that. And so we we work those things,
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  we can move to the next one floating.
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  So we talk about floating. Floating is when you see that
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  hurdle, they're nice and high over the hurdle and then they're
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  landing 2 meters 3 minutes away from the hurdle.
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  And then they're trying to figure out why can't I get
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  enough speed in between the hurdles.
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  You can't get speed in between the hurdle because you left
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  yourself no room. Like if I'm going from into this
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  table to the beginning of this table, I got to go 3 steps, but
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  I'm landing right here. I can't generate speed to get
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  there. So I'll get there in three.
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  It's going to be a three chop or it's going to be a three bound
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  and it's going to be A125130 split in between the hurdle.
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  And then I'm going to be mad because we've wrapped this
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  already. Why are we doing this right?
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  So floating again, the biggest way you killed that is how do we
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  take off? Did I plant and start jumping
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  fences like I did when I was learning how to hurdle in high
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  school? Because no one taught me.
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  They just said, hey, we started to jump that fence.
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  Do that same thing over the hurdles.
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  I told Mike this on the podcast. That's that, that that was my
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  introduction to hurdling. I jumped over the fence the day
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  before track practice. The coach saw it the next week.
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  I was going to track me. He said, hey, I put you in the
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  hurdle. What do you mean do what?
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  Do what you did today, do what you did over the fence.
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  So for three years I jumped over fences in practice.
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  I just happened to be fast enough and strong enough to get
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  through it to where a college was like, hey, we can fix that
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  on the State University tried to fix that.
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  They said, hey, we're going to move to the 400 hurdles instead.
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  So, you know, yeah, that was my introduction to hurdles.
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  So again, how do we take off? Are we taking off nice and tall
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  so we can go forward or we jumping hurdles?
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  If we're jumping fences, we're going to float.
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  If we're not getting that foot back down to the ground, you're
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  going to float. So again, we want to be tall.
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  We want same thing as sprinting, tall hips attacking the ground.
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  We're doing that. We can push through and I can
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  get my foot off the ground sitting that clearance.
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  Now let's say we fix this. Then they get over the hurdle
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  and because they're trying to be small over the hurdle, they do
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  this number right. I don't like that cue.
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  I don't, I don't want you to be small over hurdle.
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  If you're in the right position and you're punching forward,
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  your body's going to collapse anyway.
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  You don't have to overcompensate your body getting small over the
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  hurdle. If you're punching forward.
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  Everything comes together because they all work together.
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  So fix that. Fix that over recently, like
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  what we talked about earlier about why we're not casting out
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  again. Because just like in sprinting,
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  if I'm casting out, I'm landing on my heel, so I can't
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  accelerate. With hurdling, you get one step
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  every hurdle to to reaccelerate or reaccelerate, right?
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  And that's if I come off the hurdle, this next step, I'm
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  there. But if I come off the hurdle and
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  I'm in there like this and I go here, my hips are behind me.
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  Just like in sprinting or open Sprint, I can't go forward until
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  my hips are here. So if we know that if I come off
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  that hurdle 42 and 3, then we Hoddle, right?
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  And so that's why we don't want to overreach.
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  And again, how do we fix that? You can drill it all day long at
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  a slower speed, or you can put them over, reduce hurdles, film
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  it, wrap it, wrap it, watch it, explain why we don't do it, why
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  we don't want to do it so the right way, and then keep
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  wrapping it. I like repetitions because for
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  me, practice makes permanent right?
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  And so we're going to try to wrap the correct way the correct
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  way every time. Slow trail leg.
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  My own 13 year old daughter is very bad at that.
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  Yes, if you bring the lead leg through, quick troll leg will
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  follow. Can you help that troll leg come
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  faster? Yes, you can.
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  You better develop strong hip flexors, you better develop.
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  You better develop an awareness to come through flat, keep heel
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  tucked to the butt and pull through right again, we'll wrap
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  that because we'll do reps over the side of the hurdle with just
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  troll leg or we'll put we'll have a hurdle and then I'll have
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  a cone or a wicket over here as the as the other hurdle and they
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  got a hurdle over that wicket while troll legging over a 27 or
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  30 inch hurdle. Not my decisions, not my slow
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  troll leg. These are the things.
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  These are how I know how to fix it.
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  So either you can't get it over the regular drills, then we will
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  put you your body in position to where if you don't do, you're
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  going to bang a hurdle. If you don't like banging
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  hurdles, then tuck your heel into your butt and get it
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  through. A short level is going to move
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  quicker than a long one. Again, I do a lot, We do a lot
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  of talking in our practice because I only want quality
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  reps. I don't want to just have reps,
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  just to have reps. So we talk through it, we
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  explain it and we look for quality reps.
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  I'm not just like coach said earlier about writing the
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  workout up, I'm notorious for putting the workout on our
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  practice sheet and then we Get the facts and we get into
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  practice and I'm like OK, yeah, we're done.
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  I don't want to see any more of this and it'd be self factual.
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  Either y'all killed the workout and y'all was really good or
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  y'all was really bad and I'm just going to go home and start
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  over tomorrow. Or, or posture and mechanics
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  start to fail. A lot of coaches are guilty of I
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  put it on this paper, we going to do this on this paper.
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  Well, what's the point in doing that?
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  If you get through three reps of your six and that Rep 3, the
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  posture is out the window. Now you've just done 3 reps of
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  bad mechanics. And from the first piece this
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  morning, we talked about bad mechanics of if I strike out in
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  front of me, I'm telling up a half screen.
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  If I'm flat, I'm just going slow.
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  And again, I like quality. Like my well, we had practice
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  this morning at that's how bad I am.
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  My track team, they come to my house for Halloween, right?
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  And so the sprinters came over last night Halloween, right,
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  with my kids trick or treat eating candy.
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  We had 7:00 AM practice this morning.
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  We had 7:00 AM practice this morning.
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  They walked in and I had cones set up everywhere.
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  They was like cook. You just had, I didn't say you
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  eat candy yesterday. You knew we had practice on.
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  You knew we had practice on Saturday, on Sunday when I sent
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  it out to you, you made the decision to come out here and,
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  and and eat all the candy and sweets.
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  So therefore we're going to practice.
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  Practice wasn't hard. They didn't know that because
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  they saw Cone set up. They was like oh he's going to
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  kill us. They did, they did a warm up of
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  20 minute warm up. They did wickets, they did fly
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  30s and then they did 2 knives. And you would have thought the
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  people that was eating candy last night, you would have
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  thought we did 5 hundreds. It was lining up at the track.
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  You'll see it on social media later.
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  It'll be out tomorrow on social media.
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  It was like with the trash can throwing up.
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  I was like, y'all didn't do nothing hard.
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  But it kind of that kind of goes back into what Coach BJ said a
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  minute ago about athletes taking care of their bodies.
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  It all plays a part into it, right?
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  You knew you got practiced at 7:00 AM on Saturday morning.
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  You know, you have me as a coach and I'm petty.
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  So you don't know what's going to happen on that practice,
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  right? They did.
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  We talked about me. You go ahead, go back, go back
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  once me look one more because we talked about that already.
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  Look forward 7 seven verse 8. So I don't coach seven step
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  hurdlers. I don't like them because I
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  understand that if I if I can seven step and I'm not strong
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  enough, I can get there, but I'm going to pay for it down the
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  line. It's going to show somewhere
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  down the line, right. A lot of people are seven step
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  in now and most of them are seven step, especially at the
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  high school level. They can't get to the other end.
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  There was a young lady in this state, she's doing phenomenal
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  right now in college. She was A7 stepper in high
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  school and she was one of the most inconsistent ladies in the
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  state. Phenomenal talent, but she
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  couldn't be consistent at 7 steps because she just wasn't
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  strong enough. So for me, we teach an 8 step
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  pattern of, again, we drill it every day.
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  We drill that pattern every day with or without her.
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  Yes Sir, yes, that's what I was trying to get the freeze to.
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  So when she's doing her wall drill, that's what we want to
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  look like footage. Just be up.
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  We're not, we're not going to flatten to the other, but this
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  is almost, almost perfect. Take off 2 meters, 2 meters, 2
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  meters, 2 meters. She's at, she's at.
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  And that's actually Kayla. So Kayla's probably at 2.2.
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  She's probably at 2.2 right now. But ankles lock, knee lock, hip
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  lock, knee up, toe up, shoulders blocking.
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  She's looking down the track. Yes, Sir.
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  When you're saying rich, are you talking about that lead arm?
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  So when So when she goes out her left, her right arm is going to
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  her right arm is just going to stop here.
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  But yes, so the lead arm of the opposite leg is going to go.
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  Yeah. So like if she's if she's the
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  left leg lead, we're talking about the right arm.
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  I'm just making sure I understood.
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  Yep. Again, we do a lot of three
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  everything we do with the hurdles, they do it out of a
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  three-point. They're, they're not allowed
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  when we're actually starting to hurdle to, to, to do a 2 point
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  because you're never going to start erasing A2 point.
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  And if you do, you're not running hurdles.
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  For me, it just looks odd. You cannot accelerate standing
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  up like this. It's not physically possible
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  because the rule of acceleration is my shins have to be parallel
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  to the ground. You cannot push the track behind
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  you if your shins aren't parallel to the ground.
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  So I don't let them start like this.
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  I love picking on Caleb because you know, I love her.
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  She's one of the laziest hurdles I have because she will start
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  like this every time. But again, I like I talked
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  about, she's really fast, but when she's at her best, she's
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  doing it the correct way. And so we try.
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  My goal with her is I need you to do it the correct way 80% of
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  the time because I know 20% you're going to do your own
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  thing anyway. I'm not finding that daughter
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  with you. I'm OK with that.
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  But also with that, don't get mad at me if that 20% show up in
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  a meet. So that's a compromise.
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  I'll let you have your 20%, but if it's open to me, it's on you,
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  not on me. Because 80% of the time I taught
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  you the correct way and you chose to do it 80% of the time.
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  Not just not, not 100% of the time.
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  And for the most part, she's been blessed to be able to
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  navigate and be on the podium since she's done with us.
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  Right? But again, she's talented.
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  What about my 4 steppers? My 4 steppers don't get that
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  leeway. My 16 second holders don't get
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  that leeway. Until you run a certain thing,
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  you don't have a say so or leeway.
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  These are the these are the ways that we're doing it because we
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  know if you do it this way, you'll get to the 13th next
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  slide for me, I got through most of our advocates.
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  We can we talk about that too. We can keep going.
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  I jumped around. We can keep going.
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  Talk about that too. Keep going.
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  I'm going to send you guys this PowerPoint.
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  I'm just trying to see what I did keep going.
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  This is rhythm and touchdown times again, we film everything
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  I use. If you don't, if you have a HP
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  laptop, a non Mac product and you're trying to find a good
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  filming thing that you can do splits on Canova is a free thing
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  you can download on your desktop.
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  Keep going until you see videos from me.
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  Boom boom, boom. We talked about all this stuff
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  I've been jumping on. That's why I put that tablet
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  down because I'm not going to jump around.
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  There we go. Nope, keep going for me, that's
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  I I want to get to this. OK, so as you see it here, you
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  can just play that one through. You're going to watch the hurdle
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  splits and touchdowns come down. This is my young lady that two
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  weeks ago she was 4 stepping. She is now a three stepper as of
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  Friday. This is her first time 3
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  stepping and those hurdles are at 8 meters.
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  And so her hurdle splits are going to be up here are not
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  going to be great because her frequency isn't there yet.
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  Now that we got her three stepping, now we can work on
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  frequency. So she's in the one 20s and then
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  1:30. Which means she's probably going
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  to run 15 high if she keeps that way, right?
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  For us, you're competitive at conference at 15 high, you don't
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  sniff the national meet at 15 high.
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  It takes 1398 to get to the NAI national meet and it took last
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  year, it took 1356 to make that final.
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  But we got her the three steps. So now we'll spend the next six
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  weeks working on frequency. How do we do that?
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  We take the Hodles away. I put wickets out at the same
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  distance as the Hodles and we just wrap that over and over.
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  I take away the fear of the tall hurdle, put a baby hurdle out
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  there and they go. If that's too scary, I turn the
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  hurdle over, Let them run over that.
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  But we train it at the frequency of the actual hurdle, not at
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  like some arbitrary number we know.
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  I got 8.5 meters in between the hurdles.
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  Take away 2 meters. Take away 2 meters.
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  Divide those other three steps in there.
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  Put your wickets out of those three steps.
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  Just run that pattern because it's not going to change the
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  whole world. It's never going to change.
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  I'm going to land two. I'm going to land 1 1/2 two
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  meters off the back of the hurdle.
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  I'm going to take off at 2 meters.
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  Every time you make it a rhythm, I put cones down.
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  My athletes hate when I put cones down because they know I'm
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  actually watching. You make sure you're hitting the
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  cones and they freak them out sometime.
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  But again, that's that's what it is.
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  So I use cones. I use mini, I use mini wickets
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  in between sometime too. Just when I feel like being
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  petty, I'll put mini wickets instead of the cones.
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  And so now you are either going to get your feet up, hit the
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  wickets. You're not going to go over the
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  hurdle because you're going to hit the wicket on the top.
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  I understand that, but I want you getting your feet up and
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  getting them back to the ground. So we'll put wickets in there,
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  we'll put hurdles in there. And if I have a kid that don't
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  like put their arms down, what I tend to do, I'll take another
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  hurdle, I'll turn the hurdle around again.
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  I told you I coach how to fit. It's, it has worked for 16
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  years. It's awesome.
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  I turn another hurdle around. I'll put half the hurdle right
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  here with the rest of the hurdle on this side.
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  I close your window and I raise the hurdle up to 30.
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  If you're if if you're a woman would have collapsed the hurdles
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  out of 27, I'll take a regular hurdle, put it at 30 and close
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  your window in. You're going to eventually get
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  tired of hitting your hand on a hurdle.
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  Of course, I put the the pool noodles over the top of the
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  huddle, right. I don't want to break your hand.
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  I put a pool noodle on top of the hurdle.
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  Eventually you get tired of hitting your hands on things
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  because if you're in a race and you do that and you hit
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  somebody, you'll be cute. So we play around again, we play
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  around with a lot of things. I, I say I coach out of fear,
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  but I can only do these things that my athletes trust me.
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  If you don't take anything away from anything else, away from
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  what I've talked about, right? And again, I'll send this
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  PowerPoint out to you guys, confidence in your athlete in
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  what you tell them will do a whole lot more than anything we
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  talked about in the PowerPoint. If they, if you get them to
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  believe what you're selling, you get them to believe what you're
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  trying to get them to do, lots of things happen and you're
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  like, oh, I can think you do that again.
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  This young lady literally 3 weeks ago was 9 stepping and
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  four stepping. We talk everyday about 8:00 and
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  3:00. I'm I'm a big believer in
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  speaking into existence again. Chicken vouch for the year we
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  won a state title. The beginning of the season.
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  No, not the beginning of the season.
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  At the state meet the year before, after we got second
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  again, I said this will never happen again.
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  That's the clean version. We will win the state next year
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  because that's what we're going to talk about all summer, all
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  fall and that's what we're going to believe the next year.
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  We scored 60 something points at the state meet to win the title,
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  and that's how I've been. Every stuff I've been speaking
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  to existence. Trust it, believe it, believe in
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  what you do. More importantly, train fast.
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  Don't train slow sprinters into being fast.
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  Hurtless. That typically doesn't work out
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  well for that kid. Cool.
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  Yeah. For good Z.
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  Z is the only guy who's going to put together A2 hour
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  presentation for 45 minutes. 45 minutes.
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  It was a lot. It was longer than that.
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  Coach Lowe knew he was. Asking for the impossible.
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  All good things must come to an end.
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  Before I kick it over to Coach Lowe to end this up, He's got a
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  couple more great things for you.
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  I just want to say thank you so much.
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  What you do matters. I told you before, you know, the
• 24:28
  input that you put in for 14 to 18 year olds and for my college
• 24:32
  guys and gals, 18 to 22 year olds, it's invaluable to what
• 24:35
  goes out there into society. And so I'm truly grateful for
• 24:37
  what you do, grateful for your teachers, grateful for your full
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  time coaches. If there's anything we can ever
• 24:42
  do for you at Gil, obviously reach out.
• 24:44
  Hey gang, Mike Cunningham here. Hey, I hope you enjoyed this
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  episode of the Gil 1918 Project series.
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  It's really my mission, my passion to bring you massive
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