14th ASEAN University Games 110m Hurdles Finals
Please enjoy the video :)
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Friday, December 19, 2008
Hakeem breaks 42-year-old national record at the 14th Asean University Games!
The 14th Asean University Games 2008 was held at Kuala Lumpur, Bukit Jalil Stadium, Malaysia.
Singapore sent a contingent of athletes from 20 over different sports to compete in this season's last competition.
Athletics events started from 15th to 18th December.
Results from the competition were up to expectation and Singapore AUG contingent morale was aroused by the smashing of the longest track record held in Singapore Athletics!
The 110m Hurdles national record was formally set by Osman Merican at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok with the timing of 14.76s, 42 years ago.
Abdul Hakeem erased the record book with his new national record of 14.45s, slashing the previous record by 0.31s!
Here are the results:
1st ROBANI HASSAN Malaysia 14.07s HR
2nd ABDUL HAKEEM ABDUL HALIM Singapore 14.45s
3rd SURIYA JUDASRI Thailand 14.55s
4th MOHD. ROHAIZAD JAMIL Malaysia 14.70s
5th MICHAEL VAUGHN F. MENDOZA Philippines 15.11s
6th CAHYO APIP DWI Indonesia 15.21s
7th ROBIN DARWIN TULIAO Philippines 15.37s
Singapore sent a contingent of athletes from 20 over different sports to compete in this season's last competition.
Athletics events started from 15th to 18th December.
Results from the competition were up to expectation and Singapore AUG contingent morale was aroused by the smashing of the longest track record held in Singapore Athletics!
The 110m Hurdles national record was formally set by Osman Merican at the 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok with the timing of 14.76s, 42 years ago.
Abdul Hakeem erased the record book with his new national record of 14.45s, slashing the previous record by 0.31s!
Here are the results:
1st ROBANI HASSAN Malaysia 14.07s HR
2nd ABDUL HAKEEM ABDUL HALIM Singapore 14.45s
3rd SURIYA JUDASRI Thailand 14.55s
4th MOHD. ROHAIZAD JAMIL Malaysia 14.70s
5th MICHAEL VAUGHN F. MENDOZA Philippines 15.11s
6th CAHYO APIP DWI Indonesia 15.21s
7th ROBIN DARWIN TULIAO Philippines 15.37s
Congratulations to Hakeem and hope he will smash his record again very soon!
Apart from Hakeem, our training group has another representative that went to the Games to participate in 4 x 100m, 4 x 400m and the 200m.
Melanie has been training since her secondary school days and competed in the national schools competition. Only when she was in Millennia Institute did she start to train seriously, and she trained 5 days a week before she entered University.
She showed vast improvement in her sprint work and strength, and for that she earned herself a place to compete during the IVP where she won the 200m race.
She was then selected for the AUG - and this being her 1st overseas meet representing the country and her university, she was eager and ready to perform well.
Although she did not manage to break her PB for this trip, it is always a great experience to race with athletes at different levels.
I believe she will learn a lot and this will not be her last overseas competition, there is still a long way to go.
Melanie has been training since her secondary school days and competed in the national schools competition. Only when she was in Millennia Institute did she start to train seriously, and she trained 5 days a week before she entered University.
She showed vast improvement in her sprint work and strength, and for that she earned herself a place to compete during the IVP where she won the 200m race.
She was then selected for the AUG - and this being her 1st overseas meet representing the country and her university, she was eager and ready to perform well.
Although she did not manage to break her PB for this trip, it is always a great experience to race with athletes at different levels.
I believe she will learn a lot and this will not be her last overseas competition, there is still a long way to go.
I hope this will encourage more athletes to believe in themselve and miracles do happen!
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Hurdles drills
Hurdling is considered as a sprints event and it is also one of the most technical event. It requires high coordination and flexibility to execute the movement. Breaking the motion up into lead leg training and trail leg training. The video shown below is to focus on the trail leg. To maximise forward movement, the trail leg should be crossing the hurdles as close as possible to minimise flight time. This will allow more speed over hurdles (sprinting) and not jumping over hurdles. The medial side of your legs should be facing the ground when crossing the hurdle, and driving the knees towards the chest.
As mentioned above, Hurdling is a sprints event. In between hurdles should be as quick as possible. It is a rhythmic run, with 2 fast contacts before and after hurdles. Hurdlers should be trained to have proper hurdling technique and not neglecting the nature of the event; Speed. In between hurdles should be approximately 1.00s to 1.02s for a 14.5 - 14.7s 110m hurdler. Speed training, power, plyometrics training is very essential for Hurdlers. Plyometrics especially, for the fast eccentric phase. Hakeem, stopped hurdling for close to a year, Just got back for hurdling training for 2 months, did close to his PB. His technique has been very nice and he is well coordinated. We did nothing but speed and strength. Pls enjoy the training video.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
Acceleration
The following pictures are from Dartfish analysis. The pictures are in sequence. The lines are to serve as a guide as to see whether he fully extending his segments. Extending his hip area and legs to gain maximum distance. Very often athletes focusing too much of frequency in the acceleration phase, causing fatique and not covering distance to the optimum.
This pictures shows the fully extended leg on the ground before off ground contact. Although not perfect, this is good enough for the acceleration phase. The 2 lines shows the angle difference of the body from the 1st 3 to 4 steps to the rest of the contacts. However, please take a look at the next picture. This is something i cannot explain...
It could be the tightness of the hipflexor, that he is unable to extend his hip area. From physiotherapist point of view, it is due to the weakness of the core muscle that he is unable to activate his core as much and therefore activated his hipflexor instead. Or, it could just be that he was too eager to go for the next step.