Yes it was huge. I do admit that but do you think she would rather be the world champion? I do
I totally agree…her technique is so efficient…reminds me of Flo Jos Technique…she looks also to be more muscley this year and John Smith does have his athletes perform BB type workouts in the weightroom
John knows how to peak but Jeter was injured at the US Trials if you remember. Prior to the trials the HSI group were expecting Jeter to win in Berlin. Now we know why.
Dropping a time like that is outstanding. The comment was made about how technically beautiful her running in this race looked and I don’t think there can be any disagreement about that. What I am wondering is how much of the improvement since Berlin is confidence/relaxation vs. the physical aspects her preparation, timing since the injury, and neural adaptation to the faster speeds she is running?
There was comment in the following article about how drastic the changes John Smith instituted were…
[i]By Demetris Nellas, Associated Press Writer
THESSALONIKI, Greece — It would take something special to upstage Usain Bolt at the World Athletics Special. Carmelita Jeter provided it.
The 29-year-old American sprinter ran the fastest women’s 100 meters in 11 years, winning in 10.67 seconds and blowing away world champion Shelly-Ann Fraser. It was easily the best performance in an event marked by pedestrian efforts from athletes tired after a long season.
“When I got into the race and the gun went off I didn’t think, I just ran to the line,” Jeter said. “Everything felt slow, and when my coach says that it feels slow, it’s actually fast.”
Her coach, John Smith, said after the race that he was “still in shock” after seeing his athlete become the third fastest woman of all time. Only world-record holder Florence Griffith-Joyner and Marion Jones have had faster times. Griffith-Joyner’s record from 1988 is 10.49, while Jones clocked 10.65 in 1998.
Jeter trailed Fraser at the start but flew past her for a small measure of revenge after losing to the Jamaican at last month’s worlds in Berlin.
Jeter was quick to credit Smith with her success, saying that hooking up with the coach in November last year was “the best decision I ever made.”
However, it hasn’t been a totally smooth transition. Smith, a veteran coach whose many charges include former 100 greats Maurice Greene, Ato Boldon and Torri Edwards, overhauled Jeter’s training regime so drastically that she initially wasn’t sure it would work.
“In the beginning, I felt frustrated,” Jeter said. “He changed everything.”
Smith said she expects Jeter to keep improving and become the dominant women’s sprinter in future championships.
“She had the potential, like Bolt did for the men, to take the 100 to another level, to regular (performances) in the 10.60s, possibly the 10.50s,” Smith said. “But I would really like to see her run the 200.”
Griffith-Joyner’s 21-year-old record has long been considered impregnable, and Jeter wasn’t about to start thinking about breaking it.
“Chasing certain times will only get you hurt,” she said. “Right now, my objective is to return home healthy.”[/i]
How drastic does this board think those changes might have been? It would be nice to catalogue to see where these gains were still available in such a mature athlete. It is rather inspiring.
Oh yea forgot about that. Well I guess He got her back on track at the right time.
So… lets open another thread:" things we can learn form Jeter’s 10"67"…AKA…John Smith training is back
How drastic does this board think those changes might have been?
It would be good to see her previous training regime and also the current one. Then we would be in a position to compare them. If we do not have it, it remains to be a pure speculation.
Totally agree.
Its not what he did alone, but what he did that is different.
Any split data reported from that race?
having been there for the first 4 weeks of “Jets” arrival at hsi and speaking with her the training is light years from what she did before…
A - she learnt how to lift in the gym…she had no idea for a girl that could run 10.83 i was amazed how poor in the gym she was… (i predicted in another thread “about their training” that she would have a huge year)
B - she got super fit , theres no doubting she has always been a great fighter in races, the amount of sessions she was hurting and could not cope with in the first 4 weeks would be hard to count…
Johns sprinters have always been fit and as for his program being back i wasnt really sure it left did it? things just move in cycles
couldnt be happier for Jet right now 
As always…all the details you can remember, from warm up procedures, techinical cues…times and distances of those 4 weeks, will be greatly welcomed:)
Welcome back Nanny.
Guys like John Smith run programs that are forever. It’s his job and his career. So they don’t rebuild so much as re-load. Bang, bang!!
hey KK
yeah sorry been busy with soccer etc
have emailed john a few times since that run and in his dry way (as you know) he is very happy… funny thing we spoke about the program and people will say oh look john is back again
from day 1 at the beach in Venice and the hills kenneth hahn park in LA man that girl has worked hard this year.
let me go back and find all my notes from the 100m and 400m programs will post some of it ASAP.
Nanny, who is the girl in your picture?!
r u serious?
Take it easy, its his wife bro…
Miki Barber…
damn good sort and a great girl to go with it
Are you her hubby or bro Tiki Barber?
Yes. Welcome back. I haven’t heard from you in a while. Hope all is well.