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@@connortanferno5474 they’re 24 inches

@@jandanielnemeth9330 thank you, love the analogy!

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@@Wyandanch32 12 feet apart. That’s my standard spacing for the marching popover drill. Could go as many as 14 feet apart for males. But in this video it’s 12 feet for both the boy and the girl.

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@@zachgray8007 I’d like to see 36-inch hurdles for 15-16-year-old boys in youth track. The jump from 33 to 39 is too much.

@@stevemcgillhurdles Do you think this progression is too slow then? www.littleathletics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hurdle-Specifications-2022-2023.pdf

@@stevemcgillhurdles Thanks. Do you think this is too slow of a progression then? U16 boys are over 76cm/30" for 100m in the Aussie system. www.littleathletics.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Hurdle-Specifications-2022-2023.pdf

@@chadgerrits8725 For hurdle endurance I use the quickstep drill - 5-8 hurdles spaced 22-23 feet apart for a quick three-step rhythm. 31-32 feet to the first hurdle for a six-stride approach, from a standing start. About 15-20 reps total, and that can be divided into sets of two. I use that workout a lot in the fall, building up to clearing as many as 200 hurdle clearances in a single session. Then we’ll beginworking on the block start when the indoor season starts. With the high volume of the quickstep drilling in the fall, the endurance to run a 10-hurdle race is there, and then the focus for the rest of the year can be on getting faster. Now, if your daughter has technical flaws to address, then you’d need to decrease the volume so you’d have more time to teach and correct.

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Popover drill: 12 feet, quickstep drill: 25 feet (33 feet to first hurdle)

As of now, yes

The quickstep is basically a sped-up version of the cycle drill. Spacing increases and the height of the hurdles increases. I’ll do quicksteps at race height, but will never do cycle drilling at race height. Increasing the speed increases the risk factor, and could expose flaws that remained hidden in the cycle drill.

Because of her gymnastics background, she never had any fear of the first hurdle, as it mimics one of the events in gymnastics. But generally, to answer your question, I’ll address fear by starting with the hurdle being lower than race height, or maybe I’ll just put a cone there, so they learn to focus on driving and sprinting instead of fixating on the hurdle.

I really appreciate that, Mark. Being an English teacher has helped me learn to break things down in ways that people can understand them and apply them.

Yeah I would need to find a race to break down to show that - how the cadence increases as speed increases.

@@stevemcgillhurdles sounds great that and unitizing/rotary/cycling both knees at the same time would be a real help for people that are fighting the hurdles.

@@Sealae80 ah, gotcha. I’ll see what I can come up with.

Yeah I kept it safe today since it was day one. We’ll add explosiveness.

​@@stevemcgillhurdles Hey, I want to say thank you for your videos because they really have helped me understand how to improve going into the 42"s.

@@David-McCormick glad to be of help.

Yes and the battles he fought are a big reason why there is real money in the sport now.

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I’d say for the meet just run as fast as you can and don’t worry about anything else. But after that you need to ask your coach what lead with the knee means and maybe ask one of your teammates to show you how to do it.

Sounds great! Good luck!

For the first part of the video they were doing block starts, so the hurdles were at race height and moved in one foot from race spacing. For the popover drill I keep the hurdles at least one click below race height, and often two clicks. The spacing there is usually 12 feet between the hurdles, maybe up to 14 feet for males.

Thanks! @@stevemcgillhurdles

What would you recommend I do as a high school coach over 300 hurdlers for the first week with athletes who have never done it before? Most of them are very new to track in general. @@stevemcgillhurdles

@@stevemcgillhurdles What do you recommend I do with high school 300 hurdlers who are beginners for the first week?

@@aarontoalet a whole lot of stuff. Some speed-endurance work so they can handle the distance, some hurdle drilling to improve their hurdling technique, some full-speed hurdling over the first 2-3 hurdles to get them a feel for the rhythm of the race.

The foundational principles are the same, I would say, even over 42’s. But yes, it’s a lot easier for women to put their bodies in the most effective positioning. The most important foundational principle in this video is make sure the lead leg knee is higher than the crossbar before extending the foot.

Any tips ?

Sounds like there’s something going wrong in your sprint mechanics. Trail leg problems are almost always caused by flaws in sprint mechanics. Are you keeping your ankles dorsiflexed? Are you running on the balls of your feet? Check there first and get with a sprint coach who can critique those things for you.

Sounds like there’s something going wrong with your start, and/or with your angle of take-off into each hurdle. Send video to my instagram and I’ll take a look - @artofhurdling.

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