RandyG
August 30, 2010, 10:20pm
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I received the following message from James Templeton, agent/manager for David Rudisha and most of Brother Colm O’Connell’s athletes over the last decade. This note refers to David’s 45.50 in Sydney in late February 2010 and the 1:43.1 in Melbourne a few days later in early March this year:
"It went pretty well mate!! Jesus he looked good; passing 400 in 50-low (Sammy 50.00) looking like he was running a 15km road race!!! I’m pretty excited about the summer…to now he’s just been doing base training – steady runs, fartleks, strides and a couple of time trials. A track session last week was 2 x 400 in 57, 3 x 300 in 41 and 3-4 x 200 in 25. So it’s nothing specific as yet; the 45.5 and the 1:43.1 are just on good solid fitness and natural talent…
It’s hard to imagine him not putting a real challenge on that 1:41.11 in the summer. Maurie thinks he’ll challenge the 1:40 barrier. Now that would be something…
Cheers
These are words of coach who knows what he’s doing and knows his athlete.
Pioneer
August 30, 2010, 11:47pm
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That’s an impressive shot. He has such great postural lines.
Running that Fast off that Base training is rattling my head…
Some great shots and posts, Kitkat, thanks!
KK400
August 31, 2010, 10:35am
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Agreed xman: I have saved this one for the Technical File. Gay is still pretty-much in a triple extension position in the vertical and his “free” foot is tucked way up high, so distance between hip and ankle is a very short radius (not sure that’s technically the appropriate word but you know what I’m getting at). The free foot crosses at or above the knee of the supporting leg in all the fastest sprinters. The high “carry” helps “save” the hip muscles and reduces the time taken (rate) in the stride “cycle”.
In addition, his shoulders are “down” which means they can rotate (although they look a bit inhibited here - see right arm squeezed tight to the ribs). When the shoulders rotate the hips rotate in lock-step. That helps with ROM and quality of impulse into the floor which will provide optimal stride length.
The arms move towards the centre-line which of course also helps synchronise the hip movement etc etc.
Hey, with all that going on, maybe that’s part of why he runs fast
Thank you for the analyse. Very useful
kitkat1
September 17, 2010, 8:00am
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Australia’s 200m & 400m champion for 2010, Jodie Henry
kitkat1
September 17, 2010, 8:02am
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BOLT ANCHORING A CELEBRITY RELAY IN SYDNEY, SEPT 2010
kitkat1
September 17, 2010, 8:10am
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CHARITY AUCTION IN SYDNEY: THIS SHOE, WORN BY BOLT TO RUN 9.8 (EITHER IN BEIJING OR BERLIN, NOT SURE) WENT AT AUCTION FOR $33,000. THE MONEY WAS RAISED FOR PROSTATE CANCER RESEARCH, A VERY WORTHY CAUSE.
kitkat1
September 17, 2010, 8:13am
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BOLT ARRIVES AT THE CHARITY BALL, WELCOMED BY A “JOEY” BABY KANGAROO AND A KOALA
kitkat1
September 17, 2010, 8:25am
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BOLT DRILLING THE LINE ; FREE FOOT STEPPING OVER THE KNEE OF THE SUPPORTING LEG WHICH SHOWS TRIPLE-EXTENSION IN THE VERTICAL POSITION. THESE ARE ALL ASPECTS OF CHARLIE’S FUNDAMENTALS !
Drilling the line was an exercise Charlie used to use with sprinters to teach alignements and relaxation. Nice picture.
svincenz
September 18, 2010, 11:41am
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Is it a skip A?
In the GPP DVD Charlie is showing a similar drill, but it is a sort of very slow-motion sprint.
