Glenn Smith

Coach of people who run, jump and throw things 🇨🇦 Instagram: @glennsmith996 For online training inquires fill in the form below

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

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[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@ChrisParno The goal should not be 'as much horizontal force as possible' or 'keep the shins as parallel to the ground as possible'

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

There is a large population of internet 'experts' that are enamored with shuffling and trying to get to 5m as fast as possible thinking the 100m is a series of segments to be added together. They neglect the fact that what is done early affects what happens later. #speedtraining

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@ChrisParno There are comments every time a start video is posted criticizing 'high heel recovery' if the toes rise more than two inches above the ground at any point on the first step.

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Terrific finish by 🇺🇸 Sha'carri Richardson!!🔥

She makes up a 9-metre deficit to win the Stawell Gift final in Australia.
https://t.co/g08DfWtDiC

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The fastest woman alive flew to rural Australia to chase down amateurs on a grass field for $27,500.

The Stawell Gift is a 148-year-old handicap sprint held every Easter in a town of 6,000 people in western Victoria. 120 meters. On grass. Uphill. Lanes separated by rope, not paint. The twist: slower runners get up to a 10-meter head start. The world champion starts at zero.

Richardson gave away 10 meters to her closest competitor. Some runners started 25 meters ahead. She had to close that gap over 120 meters of grass while running uphill. She won her heat in 13.8 seconds.

In 144 years of the men's race, only two men have ever won from scratch. In the women's race (started 1989), only two women. The handicap system is specifically designed so the fastest runner should lose.

The race started in 1878 at the end of the Australian gold rush. The distance, 120 meters, comes from the gap between two pubs in Sheffield, England, where professional sprinting began. Competitors historically trained by chasing kangaroos.

737 athletes entered this year. Prize money: $40,000 AUD. Last year they paid Australia's teenage sprint star Gout Gout $50,000 just to show up. He got eliminated in the semis. The handicap ate him alive.

Richardson said it felt like being a kid again, playing tag. The woman who runs 10.65 described the hardest race on her 2026 calendar as "playing rabbit."

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

This is such a cool event. A fun varient of track and field

[Track & Field Gazette @TrackGazette]

Sha’Carri Richardson 🇺🇸 cruises through her heat at the Stawell Gift to take the win!🔥
https://t.co/MBNAX1yLKZ

[Travis Miller @travismillerx13]

Sha’Carri Richardson flew by them

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@DrG_d_CHEMIST @KerrTsion The timing is odd, but isn't it much more shady to test positive for performance enhancing drugs?

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@coachmorton83 With NIL now, what's the difference?

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

If you use exercise as punishment, you are just teaching your athletes to hate exercise.

It's lazy. It shifts the athlete to avoidance motivation.

And research shows such a style actually leads to worse discipline.

So let's just stop.

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

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[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@jumperssprint2 Carl didn't show a constant pattern like that, his step length was different
in 1991. That data is from the official biomechanics report in 1988, I don't think there is reason to question it.

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

Jumps coaches ... use a coach's mark 4-6 steps from the board to help determine how accurate the early portion of the approach was before visual steering takes over in the last 5 steps. The elite coaches use one!

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@jumperssprint2

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@JakeSportsPerf @KCPerformance_

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@KCPerformance_ What are you using the 2m or 1.80 mark for?

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@EACoachDavis Some use 4 steps, others 5 or 6

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@EACoachDavis The marks I was pointing out in the video from the world championships are 4 of the athlete's steps from the board, betw/8.50-9.15m for women. Research shows around 5 steps from the board, the athletes use a visual steering strategy to adjust step lengths to get on the board

[Glenn Smith @Coach_GSmith]

@EACoachDavis There is a correlation of the last two steps and jump distance, but what can you actively change at that point? You don't want athletes slowing to adjust to a mark at 2m, and there is variability in the last two steps. I just think it's distracting