Renato Canova comes to Japan

Oops. Memory fails. On watching the video intro again, I see that it was a 4-week training program that Renato gave them before he came, and his visit was in November (2018).

BTW, a tip of the hat to his ItalianJapanese interpreter. She seems to have done a very nice job.

Nice, but hard to understand the landguage :-)

SprintTriathlon wrote:

Nice, but hard to understand the landguage :-)

Yeah, I'm afraid I don't have time to subtitle a 90 min show, but I figured just seeing some of the training sessions might make it worth watching.

Great post, Taro!

Thank you very much.

Even without subtitles it's great to watch.

Thank you Taro!

KameHameHaaaaaAaAaA wrote:

Thank you Taro!

You're welcome. Glad you found it interesting. I wish I knew who arranged Renato's coaching visit and why they chose this particular school in Tokyo, but I don't think they explain that in the video.

One interesting point in the video:

At around 3:05, Renato says he's long been interested in the Japanese sports education system, because he's heard that Japan has more depth than any other country at 5,000 and 10,000 .

Some data showing Japan with more sub-14 and sub-29 athletes than Kenya is then flashed on the screen. They don't say what period the data covers, though (all-time?).

(The population of Kenya is around 50 million and the population of Japan around 127 million.)

DOMO ARIGATO MISTER RENATO

Taro wrote:

One interesting point in the video:

At around 3:05, Renato says he's long been interested in the Japanese sports education system, because he's heard that Japan has more depth than any other country at 5,000 and 10,000 .

Some data showing Japan with more sub-14 and sub-29 athletes than Kenya is then flashed on the screen. They don't say what period the data covers, though (all-time?).

(The population of Kenya is around 50 million and the population of Japan around 127 million.)

What a great video- thanks for sharing!

I believe those were annual numbers. I know Japan produces about 500 high schoolers per year who go sub 15 for 5K and the country produces over 300 college runners annually who go sub 63 for the half marathon. (I put together a video about this.) When adding in the 500 or so pro runners, those stats seem to make sense on a per-year basis. The depth is just incredible. It’s just when yo get to the very high end (13 low for 5K and sub-28 10K) do you see Kenya and Ethiopia take over in terms of depth.

RunningOtaku wrote:

What a great video- thanks for sharing!

I believe those were annual numbers. I know Japan produces about 500 high schoolers per year who go sub 15 for 5K and the country produces over 300 college runners annually who go sub 63 for the half marathon. (I put together a video about this.) When adding in the 500 or so pro runners, those stats seem to make sense on a per-year basis. The depth is just incredible. It’s just when yo get to the very high end (13 low for 5K and sub-28 10K) do you see Kenya and Ethiopia take over in terms of depth.

You're welcome. I think you're probably right about those being annual figures, which is impressive: 147 people under 14 minutes, 181 under 29 minutes -- wow.

Another interesting tidbit from the video: at a couple points (e.g. 16:04), Renato says forefoot running adds 5 to 10 cm to every stride just as a result of the rebound effect. It would be interesting to know what that's based on.