I know for myself, good coaching made all the difference.
BTW, I'm not a coach. Although good coaching is invaluable, there are lots of poor coaches to be found as well, at all levels.
I know for myself, good coaching made all the difference.
BTW, I'm not a coach. Although good coaching is invaluable, there are lots of poor coaches to be found as well, at all levels.
Some good points raised by you
On Brit sprinters being too heavy
Tyrone Edgar
MLF (ok mainly fat)
Some others who I can't think of right know!
Linford Christie was 6'2 and only weighed 13.5 - 14 st a lot of the current ones are at least a stone heavier and Christie was not lacking muscles
More fuel on the fire: Johnson 1.0's 9.79, front view:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gFXa4AcD5w
, and Johnson 2.0's 9.82 from Edmonton--
Junk Master wrote:
What big problems with his legs?
How can anyone run as fast as he can and have big problems with his legs lifting?
All I can think of is if he's getting strains, he REALLY needs to lift more, learn correct form, start with high/moderate reps to build proprioception.
Don't know exactly the problem, it was his coach who told this on a seminar, he needed special adjustment and support to be able to lift.
That's just typical of the French.
Every hero needs a fatal flaw, and this is the one concocted for Lemaitre.
Complete bullcrap, seen it a thousand times.
Sprintgeezer wrote:
That's just typical of the French.
Every hero needs a fatal flaw, and this is the one concocted for Lemaitre.
Complete bullcrap, seen it a thousand times.
You american? What a typical and silly comment. He talked wide and long about this issue and how they were working to fix it. Showed pictures, video, and talked about the people helping them.
Stop acting like a silly redneck. It's as stupid as saying "all americans are dumb".
"the french".
What has the french ever done to you guys? Always some lame generalising stereotypical comment. Jeez.
GASTRIC BY PASS wrote:
He was not 170 in 1988. Maybe 185, which is gigantic for 5'10" in athletics.
Also you could tell he was roided. There are a few give aways, yellowed eyes (which Bolt had), large stomach (Bolt also has this), Extremely rounded muscles near joints almost as if the muscle fiber is unnaturally packed in far in excess of what is normal for that joint or muscle attachment (Oliver, Crawford). Another tell tale of Roid/HGH overuse is early baldness (Webb) and an enlarged Jaw (Phelps). I'm not saying these people doped, just they show the symptoms of doping.
Compare this with Wariner, Felix, Lee, Lemaitre, Powell, and Dix. Undoped examples. Even in Powell and Dix, who are both large, they do not show extreme packing of their muscles at their muscle head/joint regions. Gay shows slightly excessive packing, but probably right at natural limits.
Picking on Phelps is rough.
Apparently he is borderline Marfan syndrome so its explained.
I think CL is going to keep developing.
I thought his 60 looked very mature. He didn't panic, he was down and he still won. He was pulling real well when he went through the line and I suspect he knew it was his with 15 to go. He gets up a little too early, but he keeps his head over, so someone is talking to him.
I think the gun was a little quick, so he may have been caught out.
Not sure I like what he does with his foot placement after about 20. It's a little unique, but he certainly accelerates ok.I htink it impacts his first 20 negatively. But its swings and round-a-bouts.
I doubt he'll ever be a 400 m runner. I don't think his technique has enough efficiencies in it for him to run 4 rounds. I expect he'll run very fast one-offs, but in his case being the fastest frenchman is a pretty good career, when he is world class and everyone is considered a drug cheat - except the frenchman.
I like watching him run. Its good to watch someone developing and handling competition without all the drama.
I can stereotype all I want--half my family is French. I spend months there every year.
"The French" pride themselves on having a very particularized national identity. Like it or not, some things are VERY "French", by their own admission.
I find that hypochondriasis is one of those things, as is a need to infuse everything with some level of artificial drama. Making mountains out of molehills is the very essence of being French. I know.
I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad thing--it can be very interesting and even enjoyable, but by the same token it can also get tedious.
A unique synergy is created at the confluence of the national pastimes of hypochondriasis and drama--the perfect storm.
Lemaitre is a national hero, and therefore by secular French standards, he must be exemplified as eminently human, complete with human failings.
So they identify a flaw. It takes no more than a mere scintilla of evidence, before the French molehill becomes the French mountain. It is a form of myth that is essential to the French way of understanding Man and the world. Again, there may actually be something physically inadequate about Lemaitre--but I can guarantee that whatever it actually is is dwarfed by what the French have made it out to be.
To the French, it is what makes Lemaitre human, and therefore the same as every other Frenchman, thereby fostering the myth of cultural unity that the French so dearly cherish.