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Re:running form - 2008/05/12 00:27 coachmccormick wrote:

2. Does your son need his running form evaluated? Does he have injuries?

Well, he had an achilles problem at the start of football season last year that healed up. Made it through basketball fine. Got a quad injury during track season, didn't take a running step for two weeks and missed several meets. He then set a school record in the triple jump and qualified for regionals in five events (no state meet for junior high, just east and west regionals). So it hasn't affected his performance too much.

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Re:running form - 2008/05/12 01:54 well, the achilles and quad could be nothing or they could be signals.

also, just because he was successful does not mean it hasn't hindered performance. success/winning is determined by comparing against others. however, performance is individual. if he could have gone faster or jumped farther without the injury, then it has impacted performance, just not his results, which would suggest he's pretty far ahead of other kids.

i was reading through the may men's health and they suggested contacting a local university's sports med department to see if they'd do a gait analysis or try www.motion-labs.com/index_links.html

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Re:running form - 2008/05/13 23:34 coachmccormick wrote:

also, just because he was successful does not mean it hasn't hindered performance.

yes, but it does give me an excuse to brag on my boy.

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Re:running form - 2008/05/23 17:56 Here's a good article on the 5 P's of running form:

http://www.brianmac.co.uk/runform.htm

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Re:running form - 2008/05/25 23:32 That was a good article, I remember some of that from working with some of the athletes at the University of Utah in the off season. They really worked on their running form, I had forgotten all about those workouts until I read this article, thanks.

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Re:running form - 2008/06/04 06:47 I highly recommend running barefoot as a teaching technique. It really lets you feel the ground and your foot strike. Shoes tend to change running mechanics, at least that is a popular argument circulating now. I feel a difference now when I run with shoes and when I run barefoot and the barefoot running is better technique.

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