My #coach-high-fives this week goes to Coach @Ella Wilson , who gave some great cues and demonstrations to help her students perform a more efficient zig zag around the cones. Who do you want to acknowledge and give a high five to this week?

Hey Coaches, School programs are back!!! And we are delivering more than ever before, supporting both Balcombe Grammar and Peninsula Grammar with their Term 1 Athletics programs for Year 7 - 9 students. There are extra shifts available and new groups building, so check your roster via this link and let's get busy!!! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1doaWgaT5kKoPWq1I9yQqcZbowAOqeKe0ymDezmnTMmA/edit?usp=sharing @Ella Wilson @Miah Noble @Declyn Tanner @Sami Merhi @Georgia Middleton @Geena Davy @Sarai Hughes

In this session, we are working with a 10 year old hurdler, so improve her hurdle clearance time and speed between the hurdles. She was taking off too far back and driving up too high, rather then “through the hurdle”. 1️⃣ we used ones to give her a take-off zone 2️⃣once she was getting her lead leg down in a better area, we showed video and cued her to push her lead knee down and used cones for a “landing zone” 3️⃣ arms were twisting in the air, causing hip rotation and an off balance landing 4️⃣ We put the mini hurdles in to narrow the landing area and to act as “bumpers”. The athlete straightened up after a couple of reps and felt faster. 5️⃣ Feeling more confident, she was able to generate more speed and attack the hurdles, without hesitation. ✅✅✅✅✅

Where do you put your Plyo work in your programming and why? Tonight we did our warmup, running drills and run throughs, then some bounds and hops, before our Acceleration / Sprints. My reasoning was that I wanted the athletes to feel Activated and Dynamic and feel a strong push off in the first 10metres. Medicine ball throws were done after all our running and done more as a conditioning circuit finish to the session. Sometimes we do Medball work before Acceleration work. How about you? Do you have a set format or do you mix it up??

Here is an example of our split stance start with progression to help a youth athlete push off stronger with the right alignment, foot position and arm drive. This is the type of Coaching that you need face-to-face, rather than following an online program to really make progress. Of course we can’t reach everybody, so hopefully these videos can help someone out there to Implement these ideas and see some improvements. 📺Remember to hit the Fullscreen view 🤩