Technical advice for a young hurdler?

Thanks for the kind words Ange and rainy. That’s a characteristic that people around me never pointed out, even myself. I guess that’s cool. :stuck_out_tongue:

I did some very interesting stuff with my race footage. I was looking back at ESTI’s State Title thread and again, found some extremely useful information. He mentioned (also in this thread) that the hurdle spacing should match the pace you want to race at. Moving in the hurdle would create the shuffle speed needed to run your desired times. I took that to heart and decided to calculate my splits via frame by frame playback.

The FPS i captured at was 29.97. I’ll round up the numbers just to make it easier.

2.6 > 1.2 > 1.2 > 1.1 > 1.1 > 1.2 > 1.2 > 1.2 > 1.2 > 1.2 > 1.8 to finish

Most of the 1.2’s were 1.167. Only the last two were 1.234, 1.201 respectively.

It shows me the splits I need to run the 14.0. According to Brent McFarlane’s touchdown chart, I would need approx 1.0-1.1 through the hurdles.

I will try to move in the hurdles to create the pace which renders the 1.1 split. I will probably move it in by one yard until I hit the times. This should be very, very helpful to my speed. I am very slow in between the hurdles.