At the end of the day, if we can’t get our athletes to three step their race, we’re not very good hurdle coaches. But, the reason they’re not three stepping between, say, hurdle three and four, isn’t because of what they’re doing between hurdle three and four. In the jumps, we know that every problem…
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Want more hurdle drills? (Watch)
When I was a young(er) coach, I thought the key to developing good hurdlers was to teach a lot of hurdle drills. Trail leg slide this. Walk overs that. Five step trail leg half hurdle this. One step lead leg half hurdle that. Then I started talking to Tony Veney. He said to focus on…