TopCat, Jason, speedster, this is exactly the stuff I was wondering about. I know he is getting older, but he is just such an incredible natural athlete. For him to run 6.60 in a big international final is frankly rather disappointing.
Chambers has seemed to go off on tangents a in the past few years. At one point, he was talking about “stride length”, then more recently it has been about dropping some mass to gain better results in the 100m. This drifting off in different directions and getting away from his strengths (bonecrushing power) seems to show the hallmarks of someone without the sobering influence of a long time coach.
Once he dropped weight, I thought perhaps Pfaff had got in his ear, as he is constantly preaching “big engine small chassis”, but I don’t know who is working with who over there.
I was hoping that Kevin Tyler would take an interest in him, as they seem like an ideal matchup. Tyler has produced a number of world class athletes (Kunkel, Christopher, Muir) working off a short to long speed based program (ahem, heavily influenced by someone with the initials CF) with a long period of indoor preparation, something that sounds very similar to Chambers prep. I understand that Tyler is overseeing things rather than actively coaching, but still…
Is he an impossible athlete to coach? Or is nobody willing to touch him because of the way the holier-than-thou UK press would treat them?