Anybody actually know? Is it the same as the waterfall? Barrel? Or does it just mean starting in lanes (as Khadevis Robinson seems to say: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Track-Field-2263/2010/6/California-waterfall-start.htm)?
Anybody actually know? Is it the same as the waterfall? Barrel? Or does it just mean starting in lanes (as Khadevis Robinson seems to say: http://en.allexperts.com/q/Track-Field-2263/2010/6/California-waterfall-start.htm)?
No curved line. No assigned lanes. I think.
Now a Coach wrote:
No curved line. No assigned lanes. I think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4gIYqIXCno
I think what you say and add California Box which I THINK is where you have inside and outside. The outside would cut in after 100,200 or 300 meters depending on the race.
Maybe it's like a California stop.
When you come to a stop sign and slow down but don't completely stop and then go, it's called a California stop.
Maybe a California start is a rolling start.
Star wrote:
Maybe a California start is a rolling start.
Maybe???
So you guys are saying KD is just straight up wrong?
Anyone know where the term comes from?
snowpocalypse wrote:
Star wrote:Maybe a California start is a rolling start.
Maybe???
So you guys are saying KD is just straight up wrong?
Anyone know where the term comes from?
California?
I read it's most commonly used in the Penn Relays. Wild guess- the 1968 Olympic Trials.
That's when a meet is running about 3 hours behind the normal schedule
I guess we've all experienced the California Start without knowing it.
http://en.allexperts.com/q/Track-Field-2263/2009/5/California-starts.htm
"The Penn Relays has a distinct style. First, runners aren't assigned individual lanes for relays. It's a California start, where everyone is lined up next to one another and have to fight for position when the gun goes off. There's never a shortage of elbows, spiked runners and dropped batons.'
It is a system of starting commonly used for distance races, but which I never have seen used for relays and that may be the critical distinction. Relays do not lend themselves to such a start usually, hut in the 4 x 4, for instance, after the "break" when runners may cut it to lane one, basically, the situation is the same, but usually the intervening racing has separated the runners reducing the jostling.
Envision the track oval and assume eight lanes. Relay start is set up for a large field, say fifteen, on one of the "waterfall" curved start lines customarily painted behind the standard start line. Often there is a "long banana curve over about two thirds of the width of the track starting by the inside edge of the track. A second "banana" is mirrored further along the track by the outside edge which actually covers four of the outer lanes. It is used, as I am sure you have seen in distance races, to "stagger" the start to equalize the running distance for a larger group of runners.
Whenever there is a staggered start, at some point along the race there must be a joining of the two groups. That line, usually about a 100 meters or so across from the start and painted on the track with a dotted line, is a "break line or point". At that line either on the first or a subsequent lap the group that started on the outside edge of the track is released to "cut into" lane one and the entire group races to the finish. An official is customarily stationed at the "break" to adjudicate violations and signal the "break".
I hope that this is clear, and thank you for bringing it to my information! I am uncertain that I know anyone here in the East who will know what I am talking about.
Incidentally the quote above was taken from a news article on the Penn Relays appearing in one of the Philadelphia Newspapers. Dick Howland
So that's just another term for a waterfall start or a double waterfall start (aka barrel start).
I like the poster who said it's when a meet starts 3 hours late.
You just start whenever you feel like it. But first, have some fruit and nuts. Wear Birkenstocks and let your neighbors from south of the border have as much as they want.
Looks like it takes an old-timer to take us back at least to the 60's.
For sprint relays like the 4 X 100 meters (back then it was 4 X 110 yards), runners not only have to stay in lanes but they have to take the baton exchange within an area marked by horizontal lines [something the US has had considerable difficulty doing as in the 2016 Olympics in Rio]. The tradition had been for (say) the 2d runner to stand on the 'start' horizontal line and run as the 1st runner approached so that the 2d runner could take take the passed baton at close to full speed before the 'finish' horizontal line and thereby avoid disqualification. However, some California runners wanted to increase the exchange speed and determined that the rules did not require a runner who received a baton to start running within the exchange area, but only to accept the baton in the exchange area. It was California relay runners who began to start their relay run from before the exchange area in order to be up to full speed when taking the baton. That's a "California start" in a sprint relay race.