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Hmmm great challenge. He is doing so many things right but my guess is he is bringing his lead leg slightly to the inside when he goes over the hurdle instead of slight knee bend up and over. He is floating or not brining the lead leg down fast enough. His arms could use more of a 90 degree and pumping instead of going out to the sides. I would also say he needs to tilt his body forward a bit more instead of a small lean backwards between each hurdle. He is doing a great job though. Ahh to be young again. Can't wait to hear what you have to say.

He is floating

1. Lengthening stride into the hurdle causing the cut step to occur ahead of the hips 2. Leading with his lead foot rather than knee causing the lead leg to swing up at the hurdle preventing good forward posture 3. Arms are flailing wide and back behind the body 4. Athlete's posture is too upright over the hurdle so trail angle recovery is more difficult and as a result it is striking the ground ahead of COM on the back side of the hurdle, causing deceleration.

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His lead arm is crossing his body and trail arm is straight back. Arms could be better if they were close to his sprinting form. He is too high over the hurdle not attacking with his upper body. I don’t like his head leg’s foot because he is pointing his toes a sign he is not leading with his approach knee.

Reaching with the lead leg and slow to bring both legs down

Lead with the knee, trail arm in closer to the body and parallel to direction of running, little more lean into hurdle…thee is more, but that enough to improve him.

I think this is the first video I have ever seen on this topic. You keep finding a way to reach more and more people with your ideas. Got to love it!

From the angle of the camera it looks like you are taking bigger steps to get to the hurdle. It looks unnatural which means it probably doesn’t feel right. You should try to break that habit and try to figure out how many steps it takes you in between the hurdle but the it comes with time, practice, and confidence. That is just what it looks like from where I am watching. I run 300 meter hurdles so I might be wrong but that is just what I am seeing and might help you get faster. But you looks really with your form getting over the hurdle. Keep going and you can be really good 👍. Good luck.

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How do I send you a video of me at the checkpoints? Please. The problem I suffer from is traveling over the checkpoint. I want you to comment on how to be approved. Please, how do I send you a video of me?

i did pretty good for short hurdler and hopefully ill do even better soon

Have you considered doing a summer hurdling clinic? I would love to send my daughter to one (she’s middle school, so she has time) and we aren’t too far from Goshen (SW Michigan, so too far for a regular group, but a summer clinic would be amazing)!

Not following through

Swinging out his left arm rather than brushing his left knee and a slow trail leg that makes him lean to the left after hitting the ground

Really appreciate the video and the off season guide. For the day 1 hurdling speed work what height should I put it at if I’m training for college 110s? Thank you!

What do you do to drill the cut step?

His Trail leg is slow, improving his hand movement might help.

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How do you fix that??

Hello Coach, thank you for the video. For phase 1, are they beginning from the starting line?

He’s too far from hurdle! That’s why the trail leg is way behind.

Never going to be a good hurdler with 4 steps. You also contradict yourself. You say land and be more vertical and then you say land and get feet down as soon as possible.

No the mistake is running out of gas and going 4 step instead of 3 step. Hurdlers need enough stamina so the actual race is easier to control. I recommend going slower for technique but get 10-14 hurdles in some but not all training.

what was the time in that video?

he has a slow moving trail leg that wants to drop early

Listen to this tip! I crossed my arm over the midline to much, lost balance, and sprained my ankle bad.

His trail leg looks slow

Our HS XC coach has a fall sprint team that is a part of the XC team… He does a fabulous job training that crew of sprinter/hurdlers!

trail leg is horrible for me lol

Hi this is Jordan, thank you so much for the feedback! I will check out that speed program on your website and will keep in touch for next season.

I really wanted to be productive but i was limited in options this video helped out a lot Thanks!

in the first 3 hurdles i run a decent speed but after that i tend to stutter step, do you have any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thank you for this!

Videos times perfectly. I’m going to start my off season training soon so knowing what to focus on is a good thing. Love the video, keep the ideas coming even through the off season! 👍

I remember watching this video before my track season started and now that it's already over my last year pr was 17.15 and now it's 14.98 Very good video 👍

I’m in middle school and I keep trying to switch legs cause my coach told me to, but how do I not over think? 5:06

I am currently in the 200m Hurrdles in middle school, I am also in the 75m i watch your vidoes in hopes of becoming better :)

Hey coach! I’m a freshman hurdler and this is my first year. I’m currently 5 stepping and taking 9 steps to the first hurdle. Your videos help a lot but I don’t have a coach to help me 3 step. My 5 stepping isn’t working for me as I’m getting too close to the hurdle. I’m only 5’2, is the chance of 3 stepping there for me? I run atleast a 13.5 in the open 100 and 20 secs in the 100h.

i never got accepted nor denied from my video, it was Billie Thompson

i’m a junior right now i can 3 step all of them in a race but only 5-6 in practice, should i work on keeping them full space or move them little bit closer

Thanks for all your videos coach! Us new coaches really appreciate it!

Love the video! Learned a good bit from the amazing hurdler at the start, keep up the work, can’t wait for next week!

I appreciate the help! I went from a 19.3 to 16.8 in one season this year! As a 5’5 hurdler it was pretty challenging and took a while but with a bunch of practice I was able to improve.

Im 12 with a 14.3 75m hurdle time and a 32.12 200m hurdle time. I struggle with my lead leg and ive been watching videos and trying to improve

38.6 😮😮😮

Being able to hurdle with both legs is one of the most powerful tools you'll have running the 400mH. (Professionals actually switch legs from the beginning, not due to fatigue, for example sydney mclaughlin, allison dos santos). Now, for hurdlers like me who can't hurdle with both legs efficiently, using the third option mentioned in this video is the best. I take 15 steps between hurdles. I used to mantain natural stride lenght and switch legs once fatigue forced me to take one additional step, so I lost a lot of speed every hurdle I cleared with my non-dominant leg. I ran my fastest time the day I changed the strategy and intentionally shorten my strides to make to the next hurdle in two additional steps and clearing every single hurdle with my dominant leg. How do you know when to intentionally decrease stride lenght? Well, what worked for me was to do it as soon as I noticed that I had to stretch out to make it to the hurdle in the same number of steps as the previous hurdle, which meant thay fatigue had already shorten my strides, so right after landing I ran with shorter strides to make to the next hurdle in 17 steps and clear it with my dominant leg instead of 16 steps and switching legs

Used to go 15-14-14-15 rest of way in 400m IH

Can I get help? I run an 18.9 in the 110 hurdles and currently am struggling to switch from a 4 to a 3 step. I am able to 3 step 1 or 2 hurdles but struggle to maintain it.