All of which could be interpreted as the difference between practice activity and performance activity (where the practice cue has become automatic). Same thing could be said about John Smith relaxation drills, where you run 150’s with a cone placed 50m from the finish, and from the cone you are REQUIRED to relax. It’s not like we go race 100m and say to ourselves at the 50m point,“OK, this is about where JS puts his cone, so we have to relax, HERE.” It’s all supposed to be automatic by this time.
While I think I’d be willing to pay admission to watch You and Vince argue, it’s time to throw Franno into the mix…
From the video “Asafa Powell Prepares for Sprinting” (#3):
(See the very interesting discussion at 6:30-8:30 into the video)
Question: “Should the first stride be long or short”?
Franno: “There are variances of opinions as far as various persons’ first execution step is concerned. Our philosophy is Long…Looonger…Looooooooooonger yet…”
Also notice in Franno’s dissertation the part about getting the long part into the athlete’s head.
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