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Letter from Editor, February 2019
Letter from the Editor, February 2019 Okay, remember what I said last month about that issue being the last issue of The Hurdle Magazine? Well, forget all that. We're back this month, alive and well. After hearing back from several people who expressed sorrow at the idea of the magazine being dead, and after receiving some...
Dorsi Flexion and Plantar Flexion: Avoiding Injuries and Increasing Speed
Dorsi Flexion and Plantar Flexion: Avoiding Injuries and Increasing Speed by Melinda Burris Willms This article examines the role of dorsiflexion and plantar flexion in proper body motion from walking to sprinting and clearing hurdles at optimum speed while protecting your ankles and Achilles tendons from injuries that can radiate all the way up...
Technological Advancements in Sports: Fair Game or Unfair Advantage?
Technological Advancements in Sports: Fair Game or Unfair Advantage? by Melinda Burris Willms Technological advancements have been a true boon to the sports industry, both in terms of making competition safer for players and in making it possible for professional athletes across the spectrum to break old records and set new ones that were once...
A Learning Experience
A Learning Experience by Steve McGill A hurdler quickly learns that fear is a much greater obstacle to overcome than the ten barriers he or she must face in a race. Fear of losing, fear of not living up to one’s own expectations, fear of training real hard only to lay an egg on the...
Technique Development Workout
Technique Development Workout by Steve McGill A lot of off-season hurdle workouts are designed to help improve hurdle rhythm and hurdle endurance, while a lot of in-season workouts are designed to prepare the athletes for races. But there aren’t many workouts that are designed specifically to address technical issues, which is why a lot of...
Robles for the Win!
Robles for the Win! by Steve McGill While I’m admittedly not a fan of indoor track, I figured I’d go with an indoor race as this month’s great race, since we are in the heart of indoor season. After seeing University of Florida sensation Grant Holloway run a monster 7.43 in the 60m hurdles last...
Trail Leg to the Front
Trail Leg to the Front by Steve McGill One of the key aspects of the style of hurdling that I teach – a style that I refer to as “cycling,” similar to the style that Coach Curtis Frye of the University of South Carolina refers to as “rotary hurdling” – is that the leg commonly...
