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Shapes, Rhythm, Accuracy

Build the shapes first, organize them in rhythm, then make them accurate. Then judge work in three domains: geometry, accuracy, timing.

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The Order Is the Method

Shapes first.Rhythm organizes the shapes.Accuracy makes the whole thing repeatable.

1Shapesthe movement forms the race requires2Rhythmthe shapes organized through time and space3Accuracythe composition reproduced in the right places
Shapes first. Rhythm organizes the shapes. Accuracy makes it repeatable.
Shapes, then Rhythm, then Accuracy
Coach notes
  • The founder corrected the order to shapes, then rhythm, then accuracy. The order carries load.
  • None of the three alone is the method. When the athlete can make the shapes, put them in rhythm and reproduce them accurately, practice has a repeatable object to train.
  • Hurdling is not fundamentally an endurance event, and it is not decided by flat foot speed the way a flat sprint is. It still needs some of what makes athletes fast.
SourcesKU-004; GLOSS
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Three Things to Judge

Geometry: the shapes.Accuracy: where the athlete takes off and touches down.Temporal: the timing.

“We have geometry, which is the shapes and all that stuff, and we have accuracy, which is where we're taking off and touching down from. We have the temporal information, which is the timing.”
SourcesWALK · b11
Coach notes
  • The founder named these three domains while describing the ABCs, the first drill of the practice where splits are measured.
  • Each domain can be checked on its own: geometry by eye and film, accuracy by marks on the track, timing by the watch. The ABCs sit late in the warmup because they are the first point where all three can be read at once.

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  • Needs the founder The founder offered, and deferred, the full geometric and theoretical account of the shapes.
SourcesWALK · b11
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Shapes Go In, Then Attention Moves On

Shapes are installed early in the practice.Once a shape is in, attention moves to angles, speed, power and violence.

“Now we hope that that heel-to-butt shape is in, and now the intentionality we have is angles, speed, power, and violence.”
SourcesWALK · b9
Coach notes
  • This is shapes-before-rhythm-before-accuracy happening inside a single practice, not only across a season.
SourcesWALK · b9; WALK · summary

Related

  • The Cue Set and left-left -- Three lower-body shapes and one upper-body action, organized around one measured interval.
  • The ABCs -- Three block starts over discounted spacing, tightening toward race spacing. The first splits of the practice.
  • The Seven Seasonal Headlines -- From preparation drills to Accurate Hurdling, then cycling between faster splits and accuracy to the end.

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