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🎽 Foot Strike for Injury Prevention

Learn more from Coach Dan Pfaff in Coaching the Short Sprints.

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🇨🇳 Re-Engineering Su: How the Fastest Start in History Was Built

At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Su Bingtian ran 9.83 to break the Asian 100m record — producing one of the most remarkable acceleration performances the event has seen.

Behind that performance was years of detailed work with coach Randy Huntington, systematically re-engineering Su’s start and acceleration strategy.

In Re-Engineering Su, Randy takes you inside that process.

He breaks down the technical changes they made, the thinking behind them, and how they approached the individual demands of an athlete competing at the highest level.

If you coach speed, acceleration, or the short sprints, this is a fascinating case study in what it actually takes to change performance at the elite level.

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Developing speed in team sport requires you to understand the whole system.

How to think.
How to apply it.
How to sustain it.

That’s what we built Team Speed to do.

We’ve zoomed all the way out to understand how you develop a speed system, and all the way back down to how you implement it today.

The first fully comprehensive, multi-level certification in speed for team sport.

TEAM SPEED COACH CERTIFICATION — LEVEL I

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How do you progressively strengthen the foot–ankle complex?

In Module 6 of the Team Speed Coach Certification, Danny Foley takes us through how he uses isometrics and eccentrics across four phases, progressing from longer-duration, lower-intensity work towards higher-intensity and increasingly dynamic actions.

In this excerpt, Danny demonstrates one of his early Phase 1 rehab options: a long-duration isometric in a negative heel position, with the heel below the forefoot.

The intention is to load the foot–ankle–calf complex while getting full length through the Achilles.

His cues:

Pin the heel down.
Melt the forefoot into the slant board.
Shift the center of mass away.

From there, Danny progresses the athlete through different isometric and eccentric demands before ultimately moving towards faster, more dynamic work.

But the exercise itself is only part of the lesson.

Danny’s bigger challenge is to look at your own programming: how much direct work are you actually doing for the foot and ankle, where does it sit within the training week, and does it reflect the demands of your athletes?

That’s the approach throughout Team Speed: understanding the demands, building the appropriate progressions, and knowing how they fit within the wider system.

TEAM SPEED COACH CERTIFICATION — LEVEL I

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10 lessons for developing your Coaching Eye 👁️

In our latest Coaching Eye Live Immersion, Dan Pfaff spent 90 minutes breaking down athlete video and answering questions from the group.

Here are 10 lessons that came out of the session:

1️⃣ There is no start technique independent of the athlete.

Anthropometrics, muscular or elastic bias, training age, sporting background, injury history and race demands all influence which solution may be appropriate.

2️⃣ Follow the strategy beyond the first few steps.

A start has to set up what follows. Look at what those initial choices produce at 10m, 20m and 30m, rather than judging the first two steps in isolation.

3️⃣ Evaluate consequences, rather than appearances.

Heel recovery, thigh separation and extension only become meaningful when you understand what they create at touchdown and what the athlete has to organize next.

4️⃣ Replicability matters.

A technical solution has limited value if the athlete cannot reproduce it consistently.

5️⃣ More force is not automatically better.

Useful force has to be directed and timed appropriately. Loud, aggressive contacts may be an athlete trying to manufacture force rather than applying it effectively.

6️⃣ Change the environment.

Watch the athlete at different speeds, on different surfaces and across different tasks. Their movement strategy may change considerably.

7️⃣ Watch at full speed AND in slow motion.

Frames reveal positions. Full-speed video reveals rhythm and continuity. You need both.

8️⃣ An aberration may actually be a compensation.

The arm, foot or knee that catches your eye may be responding to something that happened somewhere else, or earlier in the movement.

9️⃣ Strength and coordination don't necessarily return together.

Particularly after significant injury, improving strength metrics doesn't automatically mean the athlete has restored symmetrical movement organization.

🔟 Simple movements still tell you a lot.

Dribbles, rudiment jumps and basic acceleration work can expose coordination problems before you ask the athlete to solve them at greater speed and complexity.

So when something catches your eye, don't immediately decide what's “wrong.”

Start with posture. Compare sides. Look backwards at what created it and forwards at what it creates next. Change the viewing conditions. Consider the athlete in front of you.

Then decide whether it actually warrants intervention.

Developing your Coaching Eye is less about spotting unusual positions and more about understanding the relationships between them.

The skill is learning to follow the chain without losing sight of the whole athlete.

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Learn more - FREE

Grab Coach Pfaff's free Coaching Eye 101 guide. It introduces how Dan studies movement, what he prioritises first, and how he organises what he sees when athletes move at speed.

Inside the guide you will find:

• where to direct your attention first
• how to organise what you see into a usable frame
• early movement clues that guide decision making
• simple ways to make sense of any athlete’s stride

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