Why other track forums aren't as good

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I truly enjoy reading the posts on this forum. The amount of stuff I have learnt from the members and the content on this site is enormous.

You can tell what a track forum is made of when you get the typical question that every track and field forum gets. You guys know what I’m talking about, the high school kids that say " I run 11.x and want to run 10.x". The top answers on other forums range from:

  1. You need to dorsiflex/lean more with the hips
  2. You’re RFD is out of whack!
  3. Do more jumps, bounds, skips, hops, and stairs
  4. Not strong enough

While there’s nothing wrong with these answers or methods, are these kids really going to progress because you told them to dorsiflex on a forum.

For some reason, nobody talks about sprinting on those forums anymore. Its just all that extra work. They don’t care about volume, intensity, stimulus or progression, they’re just jumping on the next thing that is different or that the Russians did.

This is where I think this forum and site hits the nail on the head. One of the last remaining true Sprinting forums that actually talks about sprinting! Nothing more complicated than that.

I think confusion and as Charlie puts it “Paralysis by analysis” plays a huge role in the undoing of the majority of forums and coaching out there.

What do you guys think? Am I alone on this?

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Well said you. I’d add that while “the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence” is a notion familiar to all, CF and many others on this forum have demonstrated the capacity to look at issues such as “spring theory”, offer analysis and a perspective based on firsthand experience and knowledge earned. That is, more so perhaps than throwing up yet another jumble of information (literature) rather than “knowledge” and come back to what they “know” actually has worked.

There has been some pretty passionate debate over the last six years or so on CF’s forum. But The Great Moderator/Administrator himself has the “knowledge” and charisma - or at least the savage humour - to make most of us come to our senses. And as bitter and twisted as TGM (The Great Man) is (LOL :slight_smile: ) he always returns - and brings us with him - to a place where his great love of sprint coaching and the beauty of the process leaves us in a better space than where we were earlier.

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No, you are not! :cool:

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hip hip…