Charlie,
I don’t live in fantasy land and I have never been there…
Neither am I blind, dumb and ignorant!!
Stop throwing your rattles out of the pram, because as far as I can tell I have done nothing wrong to elicit your venomous response.
I was merely trying to state that certain members were insinuating thats all move on… I respect the policy thats why I was calling their bluff… nothing more!
Sorry, I adding to your response to go after the others who were arguing this as the only reason. I should have made that clear- anyway it was dealt with more successfully later, I hope, and things will get back on track- or grass as the case may be.
Sorry CF crossed wires there, accept my apologies also.
Thank you.
Right…with that all cleared lets get back to grass sprints and wild yams 
I’ll be heading to Jamaica in the new year. I’m going to try and uncover some of the training myths and magical wild yam theories with photo/filmage.
I’m not sure if we’ve discussed technique and the like with regards to Bolt as I’ve been so engrossed in the debates on how to cook yams and the length of grass to do the sprints.:rolleyes:
A few things I’ve noticed about Bolt is how linear his arms move and also the very tight closed angle up at the front. Another is when you watch him move his arms/hands he has one hand that is very active (chopping downwards) and the other hand looks like its his ‘rhythm’ (i think this is the closed hand) Having watched the 100m over and over another thing I find interesting is his recovery phase. He has adopted the ‘old school’ high recovery/heel to buttock style…where as we’ve seen a massive difference with the likes of Justin Gatlin and Asafa (very fronside dominant with limited rearside mech). Tyson Gay also runs very much like Bolt (high heel recovery with tight front arm angle)
Was this done for multiple reps?
If so, do you know what the rest period between reps was?
Thanks
Assumedly multiple but does anyone know the reps and rests?
I think Asafa’s technique has changed slightly from last year. I think he extends more and his foot seems to stick out further (frontside)… It looks more ‘horizontal’ than the up-and-down ‘vertical’ i’m used to seeing.
I think G-force commented on a picture of AP in ‘analyse this’ where his foot seemed to stick out further…
We know he was moving well in the relay. Check there for the best comparison to last year. things could have been significantly disrupted by the pec tear for much of the prep period.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Triple Olympic gold medalist and world record holder Usain Bolt could have run the 100 meters in 9.52 seconds if he had not slowed to celebrate, his coach said on Wednesday.
Glen Mills said Bolt, who electrified Beijing with his sprint victories, was at the start of his 100 career and would peak only in about two years’ time.
“If he had continued, the slowest he would have run would have been 9.52,” Mills told reporters ahead of Friday’s Weltklasse athletics meeting in Zurich, where Bolt is due to run the 100.
“This is his first year of running the 100 meters,” Mills said. “In two more years he should be peaking at this distance and by then I am certain he will be down to there.”
Bolt set a world record of 9.69 seconds in the 100, and was so far ahead of the field that he slowed before the end to celebrate.
Bolt then broke Michael Johnson’s 12-year-old mark in the 200 and added a third gold by contributing to a world record for Jamaica in the 4x100 relay.
On Friday, Bolt will face the two men who won medals behind him in the Beijing 100, Richard Thompson of Trinidad & Tobago and American Walter Dix.
Other Beijing winners on show in Zurich include women’s pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva and Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia, who won the men’s 5,000 and 10,000 meters.
“I’ve had some sleep since I’ve been here so I’m not tired. I’m trying to get my blood pumping again,” Bolt said.
He declined to speculate on what time he might run on Friday.
“I don’t think you can really set another goal after doing that at the Olympics,” said Bolt, who turned 22 the day after his 200 Beijing win. “I’m just trying to get to the end of the season, injury free, and go home and enjoy myself.”
9.52 my ass
Bolt ran 9.69, loosing 0.03 last least for RT and 0.06 for celebration. That’s 9.60 no wind. 2m in the ass and we might see 9.52 or less.
9.52 with no celebration, so his last 10m split is 0.70? 
This one?
Jam trials:
OG´s:
He was also pretty much tense in this extremelly fast run.
Is one supposed to think about move up and down or forwards? (I know you shouldn´t think at all but a cue is always helpful)
Why not ask the Jamaicans coaches. I am sure they are manipulating the hill grades at U Tech as we speak for AP.
i heard bolt eat pounded yams also.
Quite frankly I dont know if Francis or Mills have any special or secret training methods, but what I do know is that:
1)In Jamaica track and field starts from primary or prep school and it is very competitive from that age onwards, peaking at the high school level, where the high school championships are much bigger than the national championships.
2)Caribbean people in general are predisposed to have ‘fast genes’.
3)Up until recently, athletes leaving high school used to get scholarships and go to the US to train, and many times have come back home tired and unable to realize their full potential.
with that info I would probably guess that Francis and Mills No. 1 priority is to not burn out the athletes, quality over quantity…
Talent - P E R I A D.
I know period is spelled wrong but I am keeping people on their toes about this. Jamaica got the speed genes as we all know they were born to run.
You’re going to have to come up with a a better explanation than that my friend. There are lots of people that have “speed genes” past and present who haven’t anywhere near this level.