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Dribble, Then Mike Tyson

The dribble quickens the hands and feet into H1. The Mike Tyson organizes the upper body's force over it.

Founder method
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The Dribble

After the Big Four, the approach steps shorten.The hands lower and quicken so the feet can quicken.Seven-stepper: quick 5-6-7. Eight-stepper: quick 5-6-7-8.

Coach notes
  • The founder corrected an earlier reading: the dribble is the fast, low-handed motion that resembles the lane line drill. The dribble leads into the Mike Tyson; they are not the same thing.

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  • Unresolved The dribble has no independent mechanical description beyond the low quick hands and the lane-line resemblance.
SourcesKU-013; WALK · b12
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Two Uppercuts, Same Hand

Going over H1 the trail arm swings back.On landing it punches forward.Swing it back and punch forward again, as hard as you can.

“He'll hit a guy with two uppercuts in a row with the same hand. ... That motion is kind of what has to happen to get over a hurdle.”
SourcesWALK · b11
Coach notes
  • The name comes from watching Mike Tyson fights: Tyson often knocked people out by throwing two uppercuts in a row with the same hand.
  • Canon describes the same double punch from the lead-arm side: forward through the hurdle, back with a big elbow as the lead leg lands, forward again with the next contact. The founder identifies the double punch as a generator of speed through H1.

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  • Ambiguity The walkthrough describes the Tyson through the trail arm; the earlier canon unit describes it through the lead arm. Both are preserved; the founder has not reconciled them.
SourcesWALK · b11; KU-013
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Knock Somebody Out at H1

Punch harder into H1 than over hurdles two to ten.The Mike Tyson is what the upper body does to organize that force.

“This is the first one, so you have to knock somebody out in the first one.”
SourcesWALK · b11
Mike Tyson.
Response
Two hard same-arm punches over H1
Meaning
Upper-body force organization at hurdle one
SourcesWALK · b11; WALK · b12
Coach notes
  • Clearing a real barrier at speed makes the body look for balance and counterbalance to generate force. The Mike Tyson is the founder's answer to what the upper body should do with it.
  • The lower body was already specified: thigh to chest, forward lean, heel to butt. The Mike Tyson is the arm action that goes with left-left.

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  • Needs the founder Whether the Mike Tyson appears at any hurdle after the first, and what the upper body cue is from H2 on.
SourcesWALK · b11; WALK · b12

Related

  • The Big Four -- Four big, long, strong steps that whack the track back and reach a measured fourth-step mark.
  • The Cue Set and left-left -- Three lower-body shapes and one upper-body action, organized around one measured interval.
  • No-Hurdle Drills -- Hurdle drills without hurdles, for foot feel. Then the lane line drill, for quick hands.

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