I would imagine it has at some point through PJ. From what I remember his strength is not as unbelievable as you might imagine, but that may be referring to his bench press. Do a search.
I think Rodgers has potential to run something decent over the 100m this year. He popped and lost a good metre at least right away on Friday night I thought, yet managed to claw some of that ground back over 60m. I’m looking forward to seeing what he can do. When I say, a decent 100m, I’m talking right around 10 flat give or take. I don’t mean 9.80 like he claimed!
LOL! as soon as these get me a 10.0 i’ma change them for some stripes! thanks jason, its alot different to training over there… its not as hard but it works… its what i’ve needed all this time, coach henry like to undertrain… especially with my back. the powercat is a great spike tho…wow! i didnt think nike would impress me. i’ve got the new black and gold ones, its a very light spike but it keeps you up on your toes. its basically a sock…
The way he tries to take that baton is unforgiveable! - Schoolboy stuff.
SB:)
not a bad relay, from individual 400m silver medallists to individual gold medallist
Are you trained by Pat Henry or Vince Anderson?
Please clarify
Well a schoolboy would probably do a better job
of receiving the baton. Please feel free to
correct me if i’m wrong but i was always led to
believe that one should receive the baton with
the palm of the hand face up (arm extended
behind you). Now i realise that in a 400 relay
the changeovers are more congested but the
basics are much the same. Not only is the
method he used risky, but also slower and has
the added possibility of damaging his thumb if
not careful.
On a separate note - changing hands shortly
after is just adding yet another chance of a
mistake.
Please feel free to correct me if i’m wrong.
SB:)
You may have noticed that the Russians passed the same “schoolboy” way. I think if the receiver has palm up, the responsibility is on the passer to put the baton in the receiver’s hand. In the “schoolboy” way, the responsibility is on the receiver to snatch the baton from the passer. Since the incoming runner may be extremely fatigued, I would rather place the burden of execution on the outgoing runner, but I am coaching schoolboys, or more precisely, schoolgirls.
It’s very different to a 4x1 pass, the thumb is up not down and is visual, the baton needs to be changed from left hand to right as soon as possible as to have minimal effect on rhythm and bend running.
Changing hands is pretty much standard procedure. I’m not sure if it’s good or not, but most people are simply are happier having the baton in their right hand and 400m is a long way to be uncomfortable.
As to the exchange I think that vedette has it right. The incoming runner should not be asked to do much. Hence the palm up position of the outgoing runner is not my favorite. It’s tough to see and even tougher to hit and if the incoming runner misses the next step is often accompanied by a face plant due to ungainly forward rotation.
My caveat on this is that while running in college our outgoing athlete took the baton in the manner that we see in these pictures and proceeded to throw it into the track with one fast positive stroke. Needless to say, as the lead-off I was none too happy. Why do bad memories linger so…
Ok perhaps there are different ways of changing
the baton but i must say though that
what i’m seeing here and many times in the
past looks very haphazard. I know what it’s
like to try and pass the baton when you’re
tired but it seems like more often than not it’s
the fault of the receiver.
That baton must be held onto at ALL costs.
Just my thoughts.
SB:)
SB:
I don’t think that there is a really clear “right” answer to this. That’s why I put a caveat on my response. When I first started coaching the memory of that failed exchange caused me to coach exchanges with the palm up.
The Aussie drop last weekend looks to me nothing more than an over-anxious athletes loosing focus of the prime objective, that being to get the baton around. The start of the exchange doesn’t actually look to bad.
The only thing I could see was that the Aussie guy wasn’t that muscular and took a hit which dislodged the baton.
What are these pics of lewis in his golden years?