Seems she was taught by Dailey Thompsons coach, Ron Wylde, the Aust high jumpers he has coached have not impressed me.
Ahh this old gag- it rarely works in the athletes favour from what I can see. Very tough for the coach, and probably the athlete too. Parents do a great job of ruining athletes.
Man I know so many cases were an athlete was very promising at 15-21 (sport dependent) parents got involved, then egos, and now they are nothing!
[SUB][/SUB]My little 9 year old boy was having a shocker at training, too cold. Wanted to run 100m so we did 4 with walkback and a talk recovery. Mum used the stopwatch (countdown/count up timer works in 1sec increments). All 4 runs between 17 & 18 secs, his pb was 22 secs. Wasn’t short of breath at anytime.
Been training him for about 3 months.
An Asian lady with a daughter (possibly 15yrs) asked if I would train her daughter, has a comp next Tuesday. Gave her a 1/2 hour session for free, told her she would be sore for about 3 days. If she wanted to train call after next Tuesday. We did 4x20m drills then I asked her to run 60m, She couldn’t. See if she calls back.
I don’t blame either the parents or the new coach, they both believe they are doing the right think to improve an athletes performances.
I came up with what I do progressively since 1986. It uses the same theory as Professor Ron Laura put in his Matrix book.
Some of this stuff was used on Jacquie Munroe, her new coach suggested they were nothing more then badly executed hurdle drills. The most recent athlete was Sophie Stanwell who I passed on to Trevor Height. I was moving to Sydney and needed a break because I was taking the critism of what I do as personal.
She did. Will see what we can achieve
I had a 15yr old join the gym for P.Ts sessions about 2 weeks ago - 1 x session a week.
I don’t get 15yr old girls doing weights - and cardio in a gym is… bla.
So, we’ve been going outside - and unknowing to her - I’m doing a sprint training program for her.
Her current ability, is, well - that of a crappy 15yr old girl.
Within a short time - she has achieved so much! Girls this age, they are like a sponge - give them the right ques and bam! It makes a welcome change from training 40yr old females… So much easier when you don’t have to constantly repeat yourself 
Oh, and Kudoes for getting an Asian lady to part with cash!
Know what you are saying and agree all the way.
Am only working with one older lady, getting ready for Brazil, just got to get her head in the right zone. The next eldest is almost 18.
Have several Asian kids, their parents don’t hesitate in paying for training. Funny how they always want a bargain when shopping though.
A pretty high coach in the Nsw coaches assn was giving a couple of quiet instructions to the almost 18 year old young lady I was coaching. He had a laugh and came up for a name for one of my drills, “Picking up peanuts”. I just smiled and thought to myself I was leaving some of you nuts behind
I certainly do, I told his mother to see a doctor and in the meantime take a 5 week break. I suggested to her that in more than 20 years of coaching this is the third young athlete we have coached with this injury, the last was 15 years ago. I will help the lad get through it but if he continues the same workload I will walk away.[/QUOTE]
First day back wednesday, competition friday. Some peanut and mongoose drills, walking blowing up balloons and 3 run throughs for his long jump. He jumped a pb and won a medal.
He tells me he is going to get his old sprint coach to train him as well. I am walking away as I do not want to be responsible for any future injuries. I am a bum.
I had a 15 year old girl come by for one session this summer. She lives 2 hours away and ran a windy 12.59 and 25.56 at a meet, almost untrained, as she wasn’t getting much in the way of coaching in her hometown. She was coming through on her way to a major soccer tournament starting a couple days later, so I only worked on the first 20m of her race (which were godawful) as I didn’t want to risk any soreness or pulls. Her dad tells me she has chronic hamstring tightness.
She was SO fast in her improvement, and it wasn’t because of anything special I said to her; anyone here would probably have effected the same improvement. By the end of the practice, running next to a guy (and went 11.85/23.87 a few days later), she was within a foot of him at the end of a 20m block start.
This is about my friend who I recommended as a coach to several top athletes. Newcastle was my team, they were representing the Hunter Valley and our pride ran deep. Super League won.
interesting. I run against him a fair bit. he’s out of my age group, though…
The article says he can run fast and lies about the rest.
An article in the paper quoting fredric and his fantastic coach. Since his coaching is now soley greg his medals are gold and his performances are declining. The kid is running injured pass him the ball.
Got a visit from Fira today while training, she said I, am no longer allowed to train this kid. I introduced her to her parents and left her do her thing. Claimed to them to have coached Olympic athletes every year for 55 years. The kids dad asked me if he could tell her to fuck off (you can say what you want).
I was tempted to say I don’t think you should cuddle the young men you train, it looks like you are groping them.
what was the non conventional training??
a yellow plastic ladder.