Scufff wrote:
American technique is to throw it in the air and grab your head with both hands while grimacing.
+1
Talk to every college coach or athlete about the prospect of hand-offs/ exchanges, and they burst out in laughter. It was hard enough to convince my teammates in college to spend 5 minutes working on 4x800 exchanges, let alone REAL exchanges.
I think most US coaches don't have a clue about T&F, but pretend to know some jargon that allows them to keep their phony-baloney jobs.
Most NCAA/ Penn/ Drake Relay winning programs have an assistant coach that brought the team success, but after 2.5 years of working for pennies, they're managing a warehouse in Long Beach, and coaching the local high school hurdlers.